May 2023, I was not familiar with pick up and have never heard of The Game by Neil Strauss. I know some bad men went to bars to hit on girls and “pick them up”, but had no clue that this could be done on the street in broad daylight.
Quit Porn EasyPeasy → Rational Male → Nick Krauser → Tom Torero
At the time, I was dedicated to cure my porn addiction through NoFap. The only resource that cured the problem for me was the “EasyPeasy method to quitting porn” (which I recommend). At the end of that book, the author recommends reading The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi as a way to “avoid bad relationships”. The author had already won my trust, and avoiding bad relationships sounded important, so I gave it a go and downloaded Rollo’s first volume.
Still tumbling
The rational male and the red pill shook me to the core. I won’t go into details about my red pill learning here. The line that catapulted me into daygame was the first mention of Nick Krauser at the end of The Rational Male in the acknowledgement sections.
Wait, there are men who approach women in the streets during the day?
I have never looked back. As Krauser’s material felt too advanced for me at the time, I started off with reading Tom Torero’s Street Hustle. After a year or so, I returned to Krauser’s work. Today, my daygame theory limits itself to Daygame Mastery and Roissy’s (Heartiste) blog.