Well written stormy.You just need a social life that has women in it. Don't try to re-invent the wheel. Guys try to apply the whole "If you want something, go out and get it with 100% effort" to women and it doesn't work. It works in business. But with women, it looks desperate. You have to actually chill out. Develop hobbies, passions, and network and infiltrate elite social circles, demonstrate your personality and character, and let the women come to you. Create a social life where you are around women, but don't need them. Don't over-pursue. Just find a way to be happy and content while staying in your lane, and at the same time make yourself somewhat available to women - but not too available. Give them that space to feel you out and recognize your greatness. Have faith in your own personal charisma and qualities, not your "game." Having faith in game is like believing in something outside of yourself. This is a powerless feeling.
My frame is "I get girls because of me. And I know what I am all about." That's pretty much the end of my thought process regarding women. If you know what you bring to the table is valuable, there is nothing else to think about. There is no force outside of myself that I rely on.
The goal is to be so dominant that you are gameless, not have so much game that it becomes a crutch and you forget about your own value.
Of course, one can argue that developing social circles and climbing the social ladder IS GAME. But I like to call it social skills. I like to use practical words that have exact meaning, rather than using catch phrases where different people assign different meaning to it. As soon as someone tells you "Work on your game," you are going to be wondering "What is game?" And 50 different people will give you their own definition of it. That's why it's a useless concept.
In practical terms, Just develop a social life that makes you feel passionate and excited about life. Ideally, women should exist in these hobbies of yours (Unless you want to live in a vaccum). Network and get to know people that have connections/access to bigger social circles that has women in it. And leave room for women to enter your exciting world. This is the ideal way.
I understand your confusion. You are coming from the business paradigm of "If you want something, go out and get it."
The paradigm that works with women is "If you want women, then let them go." Get used to letting go of women. Give them all the freedom in the world. No amount of pursuing is going work. The least needy guy is the most likely to have women pursue him instead.
That's why the advice is to develop an abundant social life where you are coming from a place of non-neediness. You are open to women but you don't need them to be happy. You've developed a complete life for yourself.
Some guys pride themselves on how many lays they can get. He might even be mistaken for a pimp. But the biggest pimp of them all is the guy every woman is pursuing. There is a bigger reality than the seducer reality. But a seducer is like a fish in water. He doesn't see that his perception is limited because he is stuck in a fish tank. He's a big fish in a SMALL pond.
Only other person here who gets the concept.
Aside to OP,
Game that many have in Sosuave is just a parlour of tricks one takes out of his man handbag. This is useless as it's not sustainable, a trick might work now but then you'll need more tricks just to cover up lack of depth in one's frame.
Game in a true sense is just frame.
And frame is just a sum total of you.