Extremely long time lurker here, this is my first time contributing to TRP, so please excuse any formatting errors. I want to start off by saying thank you to everyone who posts here and provides value. I grew up raised by a single mother and was terribly emasculated throughout my childhood and teenage due to not having my father be present all the time to teach me the core principles of being a man.

I swallowed the pill a year and a half ago, just after I turned 18 and graduated high school. I found TRP after being absolutely awful with girls and being a stereotypical, beta gamer kid for the first 18 years of my life, had gotten myself into a very Blue Pill situation where I started seeing this girl, got way too invested and ended up learning that she was fucking her ex boyfriend behind my back the entire time. I had already been lifting since I was 16, but my diet wasn’t in check and I didn’t really know much about nutrition. That’s fixed now. I’ve gone from being 6 feet and 120 lbs to 6’3,175 and 8% bf over the span of almost three and a half years, and I’m absolutely going to continue my journey of lifting 4-5 days a week and making gains.

I learned about reddit and started using the Men’s Fashion subreddit to up my style game before I went into college. I remember saying to myself “If this thing has everything, maybe it has some information on how to get laid.”

And down the rabbit hole I went.

I found theseduction reddit which led to me learning about Pickup, Mystery, RSD, and then eventually, The Red Pill. I read everything, and absorbed everything like a sponge. I wanted to learn everything as quickly as I possibly could, staying up on TRP and reading books until 4AM throughout that entire summer. I felt like I was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to reinvent my blue pill, beta self and change my entire life right before I went off for my Freshman Year of college. That entire summer I spent reading, lifting, and learning about everything I possibly could. I learned everything The Red Pill had to offer. I began reading books and educating myself on everything there is to know in business, charisma, sexual strategy, and social dynamics. I started mindfulness meditation, and I also learned to cook.

College came around, and I finally put all of these principles and ideologies that I had learned into practice. I was as social as I possibly could be, and met as many people as I possibly could. I built an absolutely huge social circle during the first week of school, as I knew that it would be useful later on. I went out that first weekend of freshman year and finally, after 18 years, got laid. I spent the entirety of the 2015-2016 school year absolutely crushing it academically and socially. I partied three nights a week, every weekend like clockwork, to learn game and constantly test new theories and ideas. I did my absolute best to take action and get as good as I possibly could at game, social dynamics, and sexual strategy. I read almost 30 books last year, like Robert Greene’s 48 Laws, Outliers, The Way of the Superior Man, etc. I crushed it with grades and I realized that I had started becoming the person I always wanted to be: the socially savvy, well dressed, "alpha" man who was killing it in life. I knew this when I had other guys, admittedly very blue pill, get angry at me for getting with a girl that they wanted. I ended up fucking a total of 8 girls last year, and even though numbers really don’t matter, and even though no one should really give a fuck or keep track of it, I finally got a euphoric, “You finally made it,” feeling.

I turned 19 and Freshman year ended, and I felt like I had learned charisma and sexual strategy to the point where I am now: confident in my ability to get laid in the college and city setting. Self development had become my passion because I had become so immersed in it. And I realized that I could use this passion, direct it into something else, and absolutely crush it in whatever I directed my energy into. I’m young as fuck still, and even though I’ve grown and learned so much, I still have so much to learn, and have so much more room to grow, mentally, physically, and spiritually. My modus operandi is who I thought I wanted to be a two years ago. Now that I'm there and my paradigm has shifted, where I want to be now is nowhere near where I'm at.

This past Fall semester I got extremely stagnated with school. If you’re not familiar with the American education system, for the first two years of university you’re required to take classes that have absolutely fucking nothing to do with what you’re studying. I ended up making a good amount of money, especially for a college student - almost $300 in profit a day throwing parties and selling cups to alcohol addicted kids who just wanted to party. When I made $300 in an hour during a day party I threw, I thought about how during the summer I was working for $9 an hour and made $300 over the span of three weeks. The day to day process of school made me feel like I wasn’t doing shit with my life, and that once again, I had to get my shit back together.

I realized I loved doing business, and loved being an entrepreneur, even if it meant just selling red cups at a 2000% markup. I’m currently on winter break. I still go out and pimp it when I want to/need to, but my energy is focused elsewhere because I'm confident in my ability with social dynamics, game and sexual strategy. I’m currently consuming all of the material I can to learn advertising psychology, sales, marketing, business and entrepreneurship. I’ve learned through many TRP teachings and through books and mentors that time is our most valuable fucking thing that we humans have, and I intend to capitalize on every fucking second of it.

TLDR; Thank you for everything TRP. What I have learned from this community has absolutely changed my life for the better. And to anyone on the fence about implementing TRP - it fucking works. I never thought learning how to get laid would lead me down the road of meditation and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Please let me know if I can format this any better or missed anything formatting wise/flair wise, I don't know what to label it under.