When I say approaching directly, I mean without her noticing you. So instead of you two making eye contact or she noticing you are there at all, you walk up to her to open. I have noticed that my luck is terrible on the direct open.

Edit: My sentences didn't seem coherent enough, so I rewrote them. My field has been around town in stores and malls. No bars.


I get the best luck when I am standing there looking at product or something, and I look over and she looks at me and I start talking to her. Or if she needs to get by me and says "Excuse me". Or if we are in line together and we are stuck standing next to each other. But in the Mystery Method he says to directly approach a single set without any of this, that it is best that way. But I have not found that to be true.
Does anyone else have the same experience as me?

Yeah,I've never done a cold approach, at least not as long as I remember.

yeah, i don't do that at all actually. it's a draw. first, i check for IOI's, then approach with a funny opener. very high success rate. when i was a teen i tried cold approaches. not very effective.