Define effort.I'm willing to bet that anyone who describes themselves as nerdy or awkward hasn't put much effort into meeting sexual partners, regardless of how you define it.
Some of the more predominant themes of TLR after all the race baiting & gender warring is giving up on bad chicks, instathots, making cold approaches, talking to women, showing them attention, etc.
None of this sage advice on meeting your significant other comes from any real world experience or hard lessons learned and none it leads me to believe these guys are out in the real world making an effort.
Is it meeting women or working up the courage to meet women? Those are two different things that may require the same amount of effort for two different people but perceived differently by an outside observer.