Saturday, November 1, 2008

Getting over your Approach Anxiety

1. People are generally nice to you even if they don't know you. Even the ones that aren't very nice, bitchy women included, will not be really mean to you unless you rally do something stupid. To be really mean shows they are socially retarded, or maybe they had a REALLY bad day. The worst i got was a chick turning her back to me and not talking to me (but i was an ass so i deserved it)
2. You are afraid that people will find out that you do pick-up and use pick-up material and that they will either laugh at you or shun you. I assure you that will never happen. Even if they were to know they would forget about you in the next couple of days. There will be no mob of villagers chasing you with pitchforks and torches shouting 'BURN HIM!", "he used canned material! BURN HIM!", "He tried to pick me up! BURN HIM!" - this will simply not happen.

after i realized this 2 more things came to me from various sources:
1. The world is my laboratory! I am allowed to experiment all I want! - this was huge for me. It got me into the "what would happen if i did this?" mentality and i just approached a group of girls. 7-10 minutes in i was dancing and making out with one of them.
2. Saying something is always better than saying nothing - i took this one from SINN. The man is a genius. This helped me overcome my main fear: not knowing what to say. So I say almost anything so that there are no moments of absolute silence. I throw in a neg, a small routine, a little material, whatever comes to mind. Some stuff hits, some doesn't, but I still do it. I experiment because i am allowed to and because i learn from this every time i go out.

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