Inertia: Every habit requires repetition

Finally! After starting this series way back in May, I’m bringing the last installment. I did the outline for this series back then with the idea that I’d have it all up and done by the end of June. Well, guess what? Articles don’t write themselves!

I. The Law of Rejection: He Who Gets Rejected Gets Laid
II. The Law of Lifestyle: You’re Only As Attractive As Your Lifestyle
III. The Law of Aggression: Push Every Interaction to the Limits
IV. The Law of Sub-Communication: It’s Not What You Say But WHY You Say It
V. The Law of Connection: You Can Only Share What You Know
VI. The Law of Relationships: Setting and Managing Expectations
VII. The Law of Inertia: Every Habit Requires Repetition

I want to wrap this series up with something I feel like is common sense, but not talked about much in regards to picking up women.

It’s well-known and well-argued at this point that this whole PUA thing is a skill-set, something that can be trained and learned like playing the piano or speaking a language or riding a bike.

But what’s overlooked often is that these skills are HABITS. And habits are learned and act differently than other skills.

For instance, you never forget how to ride a bike or how to type. But if you don’t go to the gym for six months, when you come back you’re weak and sore as hell.

Pick up is the same way. It has inertia. You have to gain momentum and then keep the momentum.

I noticed this last week. I went out three nights in a row. Halfway through the third night, I became incredibly tired and bored. I just wanted to go home. It was amazing, because the first year I was doing this stuff, it was five nights a week MINIMUM. I remember I had an eight-night stretch where I went out and sarged every night and it wasn’t until the end of the eighth night that I finally threw in the towel.

But at the same time, I didn’t start going out that much on a dime. I had to work up to it. And I’m positive that if I wanted to start going out five nights a week again, I could get back to that place with a few weeks.

But this isn’t limited to the energy, you can get rusty at pretty much EVERYTHING. Some main things guys get rusty at if they don’t practice them regularly:

- Approaching, dealing with AA.
- Bantering and teasing, being funny.
- Calibration
- Dominance, handling shit tests, not supplicating
- Kino

These are just a few examples. Anyone who has taken a few months off or who went on a relationship hiatus will notice this. You come back to the game and your teeth aren’t as sharp so to speak.

This works both ways, too. If you go out for five nights a week and approach 10 sets a night for months, then suddenly cut back to 1-2 nights a week, your skills won’t deteriorate much.

The point of this is that you have to plan your progress and actions accordingly. Don’t expect to work on approaching for a month and then just stop forever and be set. You need to keep exercising that muscle to use it well. Sure, the muscle always grows back much faster the second time around, but be aware of the depreciation in skills.

Also, I meet a lot of guys who start practicing a new skill and get frustrated because nothing changes after a week. It takes momentum. It takes inertia to get things going. And then once it’s going, you don’t have to worry about it stopping.