Blogging Against Social Anxiety

I recently read “The Game” by Neil Strauss – a fascinating, hilarious, at at times sad true-life account of a short, balding guy in Los Angeles who goes from a compete failure with women to the self-proclaimed “greatest pickup artist in the world” in the space of a year or so after methodically studying the art of seduction. After reading this book I learned there is actually a huge community of guys out there that call themselves PUAs (pickup artists) that study this stuff and share their ideas online. Now, personally I find a lot of their material quite degrading to women, and I’m not suggesting anyone take it too seriously, but when it comes to social anxiety, I think you can sometimes learn lessons from unlikely sources. Read the rest of this entry »