Got turned down by a girl I was interested in, like with many girls before her, but that time I finally thought differently.
Instead of continuing to just be lost I finally started wondering why the hell I couldn't get what all my friends seemed to get. I set out searching for answers on Google, but it would take a couple of months until I found something that actually seemed to address the problem.
The first things I found for a long time was just cheesy pickup lines, I immediately knew that wasn't it. I then came across a Norwegian blog talking about pickup, but from the perspective of starting out at my level, full of social anxiety and then figuring out how to succeed. I immediately knew this was the sort of thing I was looking for, how to go from a fvcking loser to someone who succeeds with women.
They had a forum and someone there posted a link to the Book of Pook. I read the entire thing and had realization upon realization throughout it. It wasn't until I was done reading it that I realized that this "book" is really just a compilation of forum posts made by someone calling himself Pook, and this was the forum it was posted on.
That's how I ended up here back in 2013.