Recently, I find that girls give me opportunities to make the conversation sexual/tease them by complimenting me, but I cannot take advantage of it. My question is:

If a girl does the following, what is the general mindset for your response? Should one just accept it, or look to turn the conversation sexual etc.?

I was chatting with this girl:

her: yea my sister is with this guy in your class

me: wow girls in engineering are all the same, they find the smartest guy and hold on for dear life

her: so who's your gf then?

I responded like an AFC and *claimed* I was not smart. (i believe this girl in particular likes smart guys)

The best thing to say is:
"Thank you."

just flirt with them (easier said then done I suppose if you don't have your own style of flirting)

I would have just said,
it's going to be you, if you keep it up with that kind of talk

you just bait her to give you something to qualify her on, if she continues giving you compliments escalate and keep qualifying her, as she is seeking out your validation,

''oh I see what you're doing, being a cute little flirt, well that is not going to work on me, im too tricky for you, we are going to have to go do xyz (set up a date), first next week, before I can allow this to go on''

if she reacts negatively, just make fun of her/dis-qualify her, you will have to try eventually again later, or move on when it is apparent to you that she is not interested

lol i used to think I was flirting, but then after reading MM and SS I became so inhibited in my style because I did not want to show too much interest, remain alpha or whatever else i'm supposed to do

well, you really just want to avoid supplication and seeking approval, as long as your interest is comming from a frame of approval giving, rather then approval seeking it is a good thing,

as for mystery method, alot of guys make the mistake of not showing interest for some weird reason (maybe m3 is not explained well enough), but you are absolutely supposed to show interest and hit on girls and escalate when you are doing mystery method, the only thing is, you are supposed to wait for 3 ioi's (while building attraction with dhv) before doing so, but if you know how to bait hook reel release properly then it should be blatently obvious that you are hitting on the girl

Attraction Phase = A1 open social hook, A2 female to male interest, A3 male to female interest

3 ioi's from the girl, and you hit on her when she proves she is qualified to be a romantic interest, how do you do this?

you bait her into presenting a reason she is qualified, then you let her know she is qualified by hitting on her for it (showing interest), then you dis-qualify her to relieve the tension of being hit on

if you want to see a good example of how to properly do mystery method look up cajun keys to the vip on youtube, round 1 and 3 he uses mystery method, and in round 2 he uses juggler method, all 3 rounds were pretty much 100% routine