For the life of me, I will never understand why millions of people seem to think of dating and relationships like a game, in which you have statistics (confidence, "thirst," whatever the fuck) and where you need to employ pre-planned strategies in order to get desirable results.
When I was a teenager, I met girls. I liked some of them. I hung out with some of them. I dated some of them. Some of them I wound up liking, some of them I didn't. Some of them wound up liking me, and some of them didn't. It was fine. I just build (or tried to build) normal human relationships by interacting with other humans like a fellow human. You know: telling stories and jokes, doing fun things, enjoying each other's company. Whatever the fuck.
Eventually I met a woman who I liked a whole lot. Luckily, she liked me a fair bit, too. So we dated. And we hung out and did a bunch of fun stuff together. And then we decided to get married. And that was that.
The dude from the article is an absolute nutter. So are all of the "pick-up artist" losers. And I'm even skeptical of the advice on the last page, according to which you're supposed to seem mildly disinterested before ultimately asking her for motherfucking tapas.
WHY NOT JUST BE A NORMAL HUMAN BEING!?