As a former AFC that has suffered numerous failures with women in the past, I have dedicated myself to self-improvement. I became aware of the right methods in approaching women and now know how to identify attraction when it occurs. A lot of self-confidence was also gained along the way. It took me a while to reach where I stand now but I still got more to learn before I can consider myself a PUA. Ironically, some guys I see have had it naturally going on for them; they were just basically lucky at approaching women and never had to face any rejection. I wonder if this intrinsic skill of theirs will always give them an edge over the ones that had to learn from their mistakes; I wishfully like to think that they do not. Their foundations for success is based on luck and because luck can be overturned, they are bound to experience unfortunate events later in their lives. When these events occur, they will not know how to act and will be left paralyzed for the rest of their lives. On the other hand, the learned DJs like myself would be able to deal with such hard times because we had been through the **** before. The knowledge we have gained about dating and relationships is so solid that there is no way that we can revert back to the old ways of frustration and confusion. They might have an advantage in picking up chicks right now, but I think that in the long run, it is the learned individuals that will prevail.