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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the direct correlation between how successful a person is and how much they read. All across the board it seems that more books = more success. Now of course I’m generalizing and if you’ve read Freakonomics you’ll say that having more books doesn’t make you smarter, blah, blah, blah. I’m not getting into that debate.

The more books = more success equation also applies to pickup. It seems that most of guys who get really good are very well read, TD, Sinn, Future, Etc. Now I’m certainly not saying that if you stay home and read all day you’ll get better with women… because you won’t. However reading helps accomplish a very important part of pick up, life experience. Entropy talked about this yesterday in his lair talk and I will do my best to describe it to everyone who wasn’t present–

The basic idea of it is this: if you live in your parents basement and play World of Warcraft all day you have very little life experience. When you meet a girl who’s a grad student/stripper, lived in Spain for a year, and wrote a novel she has so much more life experience than you that you can’t connect with her on any level, you two aren’t on the same page– you two aren’t even in same fucking the book.

Because you can’t even begin to relate to her odds are she won’t find you attractive and you’ll put her on some pedestal because you think her value is so much higher than yours.

Now the best way to fix that life experience problem is to get out of the fucking basement, talk to more women, and live your life! My two favorite quotes for this are– “This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time. Get busy living or get busy dying.” and Future’s super badass tattoo “What had I to fear, destined to die?”

Now you may not live in Spain for a year or write a novel but you’ll talk to enough people and do enough stuff that your life experience will equal or be greater than hers. Also you’re bound to meet interesting people along the way and her living in Spain won’t seem like a big deal anymore… although the stripper writing a novel might, but I digress.

The other way to gain life experience is through reading. This should be in addition to meeting women and living your life because obviously reading alone is not enough. Now I’m not saying that I know the first thing about being persecuted because I’ve read Native Son or that I know what it’s like to be raped because I’ve read Lucky. But reading does expose you to things you wouldn’t normally be exposed to.