Hey all,

I'm glad to find this board. I'm really inspired by the pickup materials I've been checking out and I'd like to get started but I don't know anyone who's part of the club scene, so I have to go it alone. I think I have a lot going for me as far as looks and intelligence, but I want to improve my social skills and personality. Mostly my problem is fear and I want to overcome that completely. I don't even care if I sleep with another woman again, I just want to get rid of ALL my social anxiety and the biggest part of that is to develop the ability to treat a woman like a man instead of like a child. The first thing I want to do, though, is to learn how to lead a conversation and be interesting. Why is this my specific short-term goal? Because I'm sitting here at home, it's 9:00 on Friday night, and I'm afraid to go to a club where I don't know anybody because I know what will happen. I think I can handle opening, but if I open a set and someone else doesn't take the lead within like 1 minute, it's going to fall flat. Can a listener turn himself into a talker? Any advice at all? I'm in such a DLV state of mind right now, but these are the only times I'm motivated enough to go out and try and do something about it.

Don't kick my ass too hard, you guys. I swear it's not my fault for being like this.