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I think Chemda is a bit quick to judge the PUA material. I've studied a variety of it for an extended period of time. I don't study it anymore because I've gotten to a point where I simply don't need the crutch.
Social skills are skills and some people need practice. Chemda seems to understands people naturally, she is naturally personable and doesn't need to 'practice' getting better at it. So of course, all this would seem a little rediculous.
It's also important to realize that many of these guys that buy this stuff are incredibly hopeless. They need a ton of help, and have very little common sense about this kind of stuff. Thus, they also need a lot of training to get better at it.
Some of the teachers of the material break it down into different stages. This is extremely helpful to these socially akward types that need to practice each stage, and would be overwelmed with trying to learn everything from the start. The reason the phone numbers are so emphasized, is that it's the first stage of an interaction. Approaching is the part that most men find the most difficult and it's the first thing that happens in every interaction. If you can get to a point where you can get a phone number a high % of the time, you can then start mastering the next part of the interaction.
Before my experience with this stuff, I was a complete social retard and I wanted to kill myself. Now, I am much more comfortable with who I am, and people generally like me more and I am much happier.
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