Although the question is directed at someone else, allow me to interject and add my $0.02. I don't buy all of the PUA neg/evolutionary psychology/detach-attach etc. However, the biggest takeaway I had from PUA is handling social rejections like feedback. PUA taught me that social relations is nothing at all like Disney romance but like playing sports, music and programming. When you miss a shot shooting hoops, or a note in a guitar solo or get a compile error coding, you don't slump your shoulders and go home. You figure out what went wrong, repeat usually 100 times until you get it right. Blind confidence is perhaps the most important skill for PUA and programming. In the latter, you stay up until 2AM, Googling stack-overflow to fix that one illusive bug; in the former, you stay up until 2AM, working set after set going for that one illusive f-close.