"Blank Mind on Dates? She's Dropping Hints You Keep Missing"

The plates get cleared and the silence lands like a brick. You can feel her waiting. Your brain offers up your commute, your job, the weather — topics that have ended more second dates than bad breath.

Here's what most guys never learn: women hand out free conversational material all night long. Tiny clues about what they actually want to discuss. Catch them and you never run out of things to say — because she's telling you what to say next.

Rule 4 of the "22 Rules" trains your ear to catch every single one.

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First approach

Mbuckets82

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Alright, so I went to an upper end grocery store in my area and saw one attractive female there, so I approached. After I talked about the store and making a joke about what was in her cart, I froze and went blank. I wanted to at least ask her name and number. Didn’t even do that.

Im guessing more of this and i won’t be a broken robot.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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badboyjmm

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Exactly. Practice makes perfect !
 

Black Widow Void

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You did a cold approach. That's more than a lot of folks do. Plus, it's a start and with each situation (no one bats 100%) we learn and improve our odds. Keep it up!
 

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Speaking of grocery stores, what do you think about being an employee at one and chatting it up with customers? I rarely do that.

My reasoning is because I look like a min wage loser in my uniform. I work part time a couple days a week at the local grocery store still just for some extra cash while my business grows. I mean, for a 20 year old that's not a big deal working in a grocery store and flirting with young girls, but someone in their 30s working at a grocery store and they will think you're a loser even though I own a small business. granted the customers think I'm a kid when they look at me.

I think this is a problem too. The RARE instances I see someone in my area on OLD I never get a reply. We only have two grocery stores in this town. So there is a good chance the girl on OLD has seen me working there and thinks loser. Because I have no problems getting replies from HB7s on up outside of this town, it's just in this town I get hardly any replies. Hell, I can message someone 50 miles away and they will talk to me or will go on a date with me in a few cases.
 

GrowingPains

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My reasoning is because I look like a min wage loser in my uniform.
You don't look like one. You feel like one. Sup cutting yourself as a loser.

Anyways, good stuff OP. Keep the momentum up. Practice makes permanent. You can't be perfect in every situation. But you can be increasingly comfortable by exposing yourself to a lot of new situations. So that when they come around the next time, you are familiar and know how to execute. So get another one, and another one, and.. you get the jist.

Failure (freezing, rejection, saying something stupid) is part of the game. Don't fear it. Without failure, success has no meaning.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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xplt

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You don't look like one. You feel like one. Sup cutting yourself as a loser.
That's self limitting Belief. Sets you up for self-fulfilling prophecy.
How you think is how you are is how you present yourself and interact with others.
 
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