
Preparing for their life after college.
Is it just me, or does that whole alpha / beta thing sound more than a tad delusional?
The guys I know who do well with women:
-Have good social skills and are actually really reliable and honest guys. Not clingy / annoying fake nice, but the kinds of guys who make good solid friends.
-They always rely on a good home base full of women, like San Diego, etc. or a strong social circle from childhood.
I literally have never met a guy in real life who did well with desirable women in any of America's vast vagina deserts, unless he was freakishly good looking, and those guys always settle in with one reliable girlfriend. The frat/douche type guys rely heavily on a group identity and group status to get girls, and most of them are very frustrated and angry, which is why you see big packs of dudes walking around looking for a fight.
What this tells me is that if I moved to San Diego or somewhere like that, worked on social skills a bit, and put myself out there, I could do as well as those guys, which is acceptable. But in the bay area and places like it, I have never met any guy who did as well as even me with women. Most seem to have completely given up, or if they have a nice girlfriend they met her somewhere else. The trashy club scene does not get you the nice upper-class white girls that I very occasionally have had (like once a year I get a chance).
Any time anything bad happens, PUAs love to blame the victim for not being "alpha" enough. An "abundance mentality" only works if there is actually an abundance of girls! If a girl loses interest in you because she is being hit on by ten guys a day, there is nothing you can do to "demonstrate value" and keep her interested. This is like blaming Russian women when their men cheat on them instead of blaming the man who cheats! There's nothing she could have done to prevent that, it's just a bad situation.
I'm not the problem. The women in my life were the ones who wanted to date an endless stream of new men. How can self-improvement fix a problem I have no control over? I didn't "choose the wrong women". I chose the only ones that were available to me! If any better option had been available to me, I would have happily taken it!!!
Any bad attitudes or neurotic behaviors I developed in college weren't the cause of my misery, it was a reaction to the circumstances around me. How can my behavior cause things to happen that I am not in control of? Sure, if you have a bad attitude people will pick up on it and treat you differently, but you can't control other peoples' actions simply by having a good attitude.
Maybe I am stating the obvious over and over, but I need to get that new-age mind-over-matter shit out of my head. We are inundated with that idea in the west, and Winston does a great job of calling out that nonsense.
The PUA advice of basically demonstrating how much better you are is TERRIBLE advice that NEVER works. They literally tell you to do the worst things you can do, because it makes you look like an insecure idiot with poor social skills, and women see right through it. You have to be comfortable with vulnerability, and have the knowledge that she could walk away at any moment, and you can't do a thing about it. PUA advice is about trying to control other peoples' actions and trying to take away their free will. That kind of behavior will always repulse people, in all areas of life. You have to let people come to you, not try to control their actions with some weird trick you learned on the internet. Jesus!

He had an abundance mentality.
Here's an anti-PUA PUA self-help guru. This wannabe Yoda says "Do or do not, there is no try":
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsBWnYH5wng[/youtube]
If your environment is good, then talking to women is effortless. If your environment is bad, no psychological trick is going to give you super powers to control her actions.