DareP
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How You Approach a Night is More Important Than How You Approach a Girl
Hey Guys,
I've been going out about 4-5 nights a week for the last 6 weeks. I feel like my game has made a huge jump. I've pulled once, made out with a hot blond girl last night (no pull) and have a few dates lined up. One thing I've noticed is that my thinking has gradually but surely shifted away from "how do I approach this girl" to "how do I approach this night."
At first, most of my attention was focused on trying to make the "set" go well. Now most of my attention is just on getting from not being in state at the beginning of the night to being in state by the middle of the night.
My night typically goes something like this:
Pre-Game: Nervous. My heart's pounding a little. The "pre-game approach anxiety" kicks in about 30 minutes before I'm in the club, as I'm sitting on the train realizing I'm about to talk to girls.
Get in the club: Feel nervous, feel pressure to talk to girls.
Approach #1 to Approach #3: Tend to talk to chubby girls, "safe" girls or girls who seem friendly or non threatening. Usually I find one set and just stand there talking to them about rapport-type stuff. I'll hang out with girls I'm not interested in for a good 10-15 minutes. This just gets me comfortable talking to people who aren't me.
Approach #3 to Approach #5: Approaching girls I'm actually interested in now. Still not "on fire," but not nervous. Walk around the club, feel good, meet people.
Beyond #5: On fire, not thinking, just approaching, escalating, connecting, etc. Usually it takes an hour, maybe two to get to this point. (By the way, I'm not drinking, so it's not me progressively getting more drunk.)
Establishing a standard "this is how a night goes" helps me feel less nervous at the beginning of the night, as I know that's just how it always feels. It also helps me get through those first few approaches, since I know my "destination" of being in state is just a few easy approaches away. The night feels less daunting, easier and more like something I know how to do.
IMO knowing how to manage your state from beginning to end of the night is way more important than thinking about how to approach a specific interaction. Manage your state well and you'll have 20 interactions in a night. Do it poorly and you'll have very few. If you're not in state, it doesn't really matter how well you think you're approaching. Likewise, if you're in state, things will probably go well.
Just a concept I'm playing with. Thoughts?
- Dare
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Prowl
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RE: How You Approach a Night is More Important Than How You Approach a Girl
I've been doing an experiment lately, going out every single night until last call for 2 weeks.
It hasn't killed me yet, and I'm almost done. The BIGGEST change from before I did this to now is my consistency, I'm closing like a champ now so reliably that if it's 1am and I haven't yet, I'm not even stressing (I expect this momentum to erode somewhat when I'm back to a normal schedule, FWIW). The *reason* for this consistency, IMO, is that over the course of my 14-day partython, I've gone from a mindset of "I'm going to go sarge" to "I'm going to go rage my fucking face off and have a great time".
The latter just pulls in girls, and guys for that matter, anyone. I walked into a bar alone last night at 7:30pm alone, waiting for a friend to start the night, he's an hour late, and by the time he gets there I have everyone in the bar pulled together talking to each other like we're all buds, I'm talking to girls setting up dates, some other guy who was there alone is buying us all lemon drop shots, everyone is having a great time, etc. My friend walked in and WTF'd. I didn't go in there to meet girls, I went in there to get a burger with a buddy before we went out, but the mindset of "I'm out, and I'm GOING to have a good time" is very powerful. When I realized he was going to be late, I made the best of it. I wasn't about to sit there for an hour on my phone or whatever.
By the time we got to the bar where we were partying, we'd pulled 3 people from the first bar over, and we walk in talking loud and laughing like we own the place. I am hooking up my friends and outright strangers with girls I'm pulling out of the crowd, and ended up going home with a friend of one of those girls I met 30 minutes before last call.
TL;DR - Don't go out saying "I'm going to do 5 approaches" or "I'm going to K-close". Go out saying "I'm going to have the best fucking time of my life and no one can stop me"......and you will.
DISCLAIMER: I don't know what I'm talking about and my posts are opinion, not advice.
Gmac Wrote:your time > her feelings
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2012 03:13 PM by Prowl.)
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Giovonny
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RE: How You Approach a Night is More Important Than How You Approach a Girl
(04-04-2012 03:09 PM)Prowl Wrote: I've been doing an experiment lately, going out every single night until last call for 2 weeks.
It hasn't killed me yet, and I'm almost done. The BIGGEST change from before I did this to now is my consistency, I'm closing like a champ now so reliably that if it's 1am and I haven't yet, I'm not even stressing (I expect this momentum to erode somewhat when I'm back to a normal schedule, FWIW). The *reason* for this consistency, IMO, is that over the course of my 14-day partython, I've gone from a mindset of "I'm going to go sarge" to "I'm going to go rage my fucking face off and have a great time".
The latter just pulls in girls, and guys for that matter, anyone. I walked into a bar alone last night at 7:30pm alone, waiting for a friend to start the night, he's an hour late, and by the time he gets there I have everyone in the bar pulled together talking to each other like we're all buds, I'm talking to girls setting up dates, some other guy who was there alone is buying us all lemon drop shots, everyone is having a great time, etc. My friend walked in and WTF'd. I didn't go in there to meet girls, I went in there to get a burger with a buddy before we went out, but the mindset of "I'm out, and I'm GOING to have a good time" is very powerful. When I realized he was going to be late, I made the best of it. I wasn't about to sit there for an hour on my phone or whatever.
By the time we got to the bar where we were partying, we'd pulled 3 people from the first bar over, and we walk in talking loud and laughing like we own the place. I am hooking up my friends and outright strangers with girls I'm pulling out of the crowd, and ended up going home with a friend of one of those girls I met 30 minutes before last call.
TL;DR - Don't go out saying "I'm going to do 5 approaches" or "I'm going to K-close". Go out saying "I'm going to have the best fucking time of my life and no one can stop me"......and you will.
I love this. I have really been getting into the linguistics of game. Sort of NLP type stuff. I think word choice can be very important. Tone is obviously very important. Not only when we talk to girls, but also when we talk to ourselves.
"I'm going to go out a do 5 approaches"
Thats a very different tone compared to:
"I'm going to have the best fucking time of my life and no one can stop me"
WHAT YOU SAY TO YOURSELF IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN WHAT YOU SAY TO GIRLS!
(This post was last modified: 04-05-2012 03:07 PM by Giovonny.)
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