Most of your game will carry over to other countries, but sometimes you have to completely reinvent the wheel or do the exact opposite of what you’re used to.
There’s no guarantee you’ll be happy in a country no matter how much due diligence and research you do. Don’t travel unless you’re ready to take the good with the bad.
Don’t underestimate how much local guys will hate you for being successful with their women. Watch your back when rolling solo.
There is a point where having additional money, without fame or status, will not at all help you fuck better women. That amount is much less than you think.
Too much success drives you away from what made you successful in the first place.
There are no regrets if you failed after listening to your gut.
Fucking pussy gets old, but fucking young pussy never does.
Success is less great if you don’t have anyone to share it with.
Everything they say about European winters is true.
The one key to success is don’t quit.
Life is much easier when you assume that every girl will flake on you all of the time.
There are organized movements in Western nations to eradicate gender, particularly masculinity. Losing this war will make it all but impossible for you to find a feminine woman who you want to marry.
The happiness you experience from success cannot be bottled up to appreciate another day. You need to constantly seek out more success that is even better than your last. If you cannot top an achievement, you have peaked.
Some countries are not worth figuring out. If it doesn’t work after you gave it your best shot, move on.
Traveling to international countries is cool.
The more happiness you find outside of your country, the more hate and criticism you will get from those who still live in it. They will do everything in their power to make you come back and suffer with them.
If you’re feeling depressed or lonely in a foreign city, go out for a walk in the city. Something will happen.
Don’t dismiss eye contact from women; it’s the primary way they show interest. Your response to eye contact from a pretty woman should be instant, like a reflex.
The biggest way that men self-sabotage themselves is over drinking. It’s worse than speaking with a rude person.
Foreign women are almost just as bad about not using condoms as American women.
It’s hard to find good clothes in many foreign countries. You’re eternally stuck with H&M and Zara.
Reading books is how you get smart.
Tourist apartments are always cheaper than hotels and they are more comfortable and don’t make you seem like a sex tourist. I see no advantage in staying in hotels.
As much as you hate your country, you will defend it if it’s criticized by a foreigner.
If you’re going to wear a suit, it will be much better received if you wear it in a venue where there are no other guys in suits.
You can’t go back to what used to make you happy. You have to find new happiness.
You should learn the local language, even for a short stay. It improves your experiences and scores points with the girls.
If you’re going away for a while, write a diary for one month before your departure. If you ever get homesick on the road, read that diary. If that doesn’t cause you to stop being homesick, you’re probably not meant to live abroad.
The low point of an expat’s year is Christmas. Buy good food and presents for yourself to dull the depression.
Women highly value honesty from a man, as long as it doesn’t involve positive feelings you have for her.
Baking soda.
Fear is man’s greatest enemy. I don’t ask anyone for advice with something that involves risk because they will try to talk me out of it.
It’s better to over pack than be forced to buy new stuff.
Traveling to different states is cool.
The first thing you should do when you get into a city is buy a small bottle of vodka.
Foreign girls like silences. Don’t be so eager to fill them.
If a book doesn’t excite you, isn’t teaching you anything you don’t already know, or doesn’t fascinate you, stop reading and find one that does. Finishing a crappy book is like dating a girl you don’t like.
There are many first world countries in Eastern Europe where the cost of living is half that of the United States. You don’t need to live in Peru or Thailand to see considerable savings.
Polish and Russian are excruciatingly hard to learn for English speakers.
Your haters increase in direct proportion to your influence.
Life will throw you problems that you can’t immediately solve, or solve at all.
Feminists have successfully brainwashed men into thinking they’ll become unattractive to all women if they choose to remain bachelors. Truth is that a man’s best pussy-getting years starts at 30.
Some guys say they grew out of the game. Then you see his unattractive girlfriend and realize he never got good at it.
The only game that will always work, no matter where you are, is the numbers game.
It’s better for a girl to look at you and laugh than for her to look at you and offer no response at all.
Reading books is the most powerful thing you can do to gain the experience of life without experiencing life. I’ve learned more from reading last year than I have from four years in college.
You adapt to little increases to your happiness each year. The dream life you envisioned for yourself ten years ago will be seen as normal when you finally get it.
No one is looking out for your interests 100% of the time, not even your family. You’re always on your own.
Your brain is capable of so much more if you clear it of distractions. Learning is a form of meditation.
There’s a reason why foreign guys don’t travel to the United States to get laid.
Until next time.
Your man,
-Elijah “The Realist”
