 You see it in person and it's cool because then the less you judge other people, the less they judge you and you just become more awesome and everything's glorious. And you don't identify with other people's opinions which goes back to pick up and all that shit. So it's like a really good headspace to be in. What am I trying to say with all this and this long ramble here? It's basically pick what you want in life. Pick what you want, pick those things out, have them be very specific. Like I said, take mine, they work really well. I like them, they're good ones, right? Or choose some other ones that you like. Could be like, I love to have a good family at some point too. That's another one, because I come from a really good background and all that stuff. So have a good family, kind of all the values there, and then make them synergize. That's the big thing too, like how can I feed these into each other? I do think, I've noticed that everything I've done, there are periods of immersion and imbalanced, unbalanced, where I did pick up for a couple of years. It takes fucking four or five years to get good at this shit. If you want to be awesome, you want to be pulling shit like that, it takes about four or five years, I've noticed that pretty consistently. And you need other people like mentors and stuff like that to teach you to make you do it right, right? And then you do that, you kind of master one thing. I did it again with fitness, right? I was pretty extreme with my diet, going out consistently, doing all that shit, hitting it really hard, fucking rocking that shit. So I got the girls and now the business. For me, it's been really tough, because this year is the first time in my life where I'm not going out consistently like six nights a week, like literally six nights a week for six years or something like that. And I'm like, gotta do some video editing, and I'm there and I'm like, this is for you girls, this is for you, right? And as I'm fucking doing HTML on my blog or some shit like that, right? But because of this, now everything feeds into itself really nicely, and it's really good, so it's like fucking glorious, and ends up really well. Which brings us to today, since I got two minutes left, and that's kind of where I'm at, right? So like I said, this is a huge week for me, and I'm sure you guys can kind of feel I'm pretty just stoked on life at the moment. Can't tell, I don't know if you can, feel the aura, feel the vibe. So things have been really good. And yeah, 2012, good year, that's what my talk was about. So I'll kind of end it there. Thanks for having me, I guess. Awesome, Brad Branson, guys. We got questions. Q&A. We got some time. I know there's a lot of RSD fans in here. It's fucking ranted for an hour there. Everyone's like fucking spectator mode. Any such thing as a wasted set? Cool. I mean, I've been letting them like walk by. But I mean, is there any such thing like that? Cool. Did everyone hear that? I'll just say it anyways. He asked if there's ever like a wasted set or a bad opportunity. And for me, what it ties into really the self-esteem stuff, I love thinking about it from the self-esteem standpoint. Because what Nathaniel Brandon says for self-esteem, what he says is, the only thing you can control is your consciousness and your awareness and where you shine things on. So as long as you're using your awareness and taking action. If you do something, you go, let's say you approach a girl, right? If it goes well, what he says is the self-esteem is built because if it went well, it proves to you that your awareness, you focused it and you made the proper decision and things worked right. So a good set, you're like, sweet, okay, I'm proving to myself that this is good, self-esteem boost. But then what happens is if something goes wrong, you learn from it. So as long as you don't identify with it, you learn from it. Then you know that the next time you make that decision, you're gonna do it better because you're sculpting it. So as long as you learn from every single interaction you have, I never think there really could be a bad one. I think the only bad set is the one you don't do, probably. But I also think it's bad as well for guys that beat themself up at every hot girl that they see, everyone has that at some point, sure, right? Where you're just like, fuck, there's another, oh, shit, I didn't approach her too, because you found this new power. But I would say as long as, either when or you learn, that's the big thing I would say. Self-esteem, cool, interesting question, I like it. Geez, Brad, thanks for the talk. You said you were out of the game for a while and you're focusing on working things like that. Is it the sort of thing that you, if you don't lose it, you lose it? If you don't use it, you lose it sort of thing? And say if you're busy at work for a few weeks, or say a month, and you can't go out or you can't practice your techniques, or you're not really in the day game sort of thing. What are some practical things that you can do to get yourself back in and trained up? Yeah, good question. So for me, it's funny, this is before I was an instructor. I was assisting, I remember in Chicago. And some dude told me, I think this thing is buzzing down here a little bit. If you want to stop that, I don't know how to stop it. So he said, he was like, when I was 12 years old, I lost my virginity. He's like, by 14, 15, I was having three sims. And then I turned 18, I got this girlfriend, and she shattered my soul. And then two years, I was with her, and now I can't pick up at all. Like, I'm afraid of girls, and all this shit. I was like, whoa, this is like the weirdest story I've ever fucking heard. So I think, I mean, there's always something traumatic that could maybe kind of, if I think about myself personally, like, would I ever lose this? You know, they say confidence is very attractive. What creates confidence? Like the reference points. So I personally feel I've had so much experience to kind of like, confirm that I'm good at it, that I think it's almost impossible for me to like lose it completely, lose it. And I think a lot of times what happens if you take a big break, all of a sudden you go out one night, and all these reference points start going in your brain, and you're like, remember this, remember that. And you can feel the shit kind of come locking back in together really nicely. So I think the biggest thing that I would say to answer that for guys that you're like, okay, cool, I got business shit right now. Or I gotta go, like my mom got sick or something, so I gotta be at the hospital all the time or something. I've had that happen to clients before and stuff. I'm like, as long as you're living on your path, this is the synergism that I was talking about before? I really am doing work, I'm doing that fucking work. And I'm thinking girls, girls, money, girls, girls. And it's fucking pumping me up, that self-esteem we talked about before. I'm getting better and better at it, I'm getting better. Like it shows, it's manifesting the world more and conveying more, like getting more value out there and all that shit. So I'm like, fuck yeah, this is fucking awesome. And then when I step to that girl, I like see the girl and I think in my head, I think, shit, you're a little bit rusty here. But you are fucking stunting on the world, let's do this shit, right? So the kind of self-esteem in the inner game, even though your outer game is a little unpolished, like I said before, the inner game is even stronger. So as long as you're thinking about that way, I know it's just as easy to be over there and be like, I'm gonna forget about the girls for a little while and just work on my shit, work on it, forget about that, no, no, no, no, no. And when that's the frame you have there, then it probably would just kind of lose it completely there a bit. But there are a lot of really nice ways to kind of deal with that. I won't really say specifically other than try to synergize all this shit there, does that make sense? Cool, good question, yeah. We got time for one more, guys. Do you say any repercussions with this sort of lifestyle in the future as far as monogamy and? Good question. Yeah, yeah, so he's asking about monogamy. Hopefully this part won't be on YouTube for my girlfriend. Yeah, I don't know, like for me, I actually have a distinction between having a girlfriend and making love, actually making love, and then just random, I'm in Melbourne for the weekend, find some random girl. I have no real emotional connection there. For me, literally, it's almost as objective as taking a shit or something like that. Right? So I'm like, it's not cheating or something. To me, I'm just like, yeah, I did that shit. That's how objective is to me, which also is probably why you get it so regularly then when you don't put that value on it. But will I ever have the, I personally don't believe in marriage too much. That's a whole other topic that I've had people fucking force into me. So that's been conditioned into me, because I don't think monogamy in the traditional sense is very natural or whatever. But I think it's like, if I have an amazing, for me, the relationships that I've had, the way it happens, is like, I meet some girl, maybe you have some other girls, and you're kind of doing that. And this one is just like, you actually enjoy the sex so much more and actually gets better every time. Like, it's getting better and you're like, I don't care about the other girls, right? And if I'm with her and I'm totally doing that, I have no reason to kind of just be like, gotta do the pickup shit, gotta be significant or something. In the past, I've kind of made mistakes with that because it was like new. I'm just like naive and young and stuff like that. But I know now if I do find that awesome girl, I'm totally comfortable. I'm like, I've been with enough girls. Just like, let's do this shit. But if I go to Vegas for the weekend, you know, and hopefully, probably the girl that I would meet would actually be like, yeah, you're in Vegas, fucking party, do that shit. Like, hopefully, that's the type of girl that I want, you know? Is she out there? I don't know. Maybe that's why I'm not in a real relationship because maybe she doesn't exist. I don't know. But that's personally, she would need to be conscious enough to be like, the same for her. I'm like, I don't want you to do that shit, but I better not find out about it. Like, if you do it and it's totally like whatever, I'm like, okay, that's cool to me. Cause again, that's just how I view it. But if all of a sudden she's off and she's like, having this full affair and like in love, that's like a total kind of different thing for me. But that's just my personal view of what intimate relationships are, I guess. So that's, I like that question, that's cool. Awesome. Cool, yeah. So yeah, thanks for having me. Like I said, check out my website, bradbranson.com. Also this week, if you do like the shit, go on rstnation.com or check out rstbrad as my YouTube channel. And I'm throwing out videos every single day this week. So check that shit out and Evolution Sprout coming out this Thursday. Big day for me. All right, let's give it up for Brad. Thank you, Anthony. Awesome. All right, guys.