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So I have been doing picked up and sarging by myself for a while, I'm fine with cold approach, one on one date or dealing small group. Today I decided to go to the meet and greet from the most popular group from meetup.com in my town. I know there was gonna be more than a hundred people will be there. I showed up at the parking lot and the place was swarmed with people. There was more than 300 people there. I literally psyched myself out in the car, had an anxiety attack, choke and went home.
Seem like I need to go back and rework some area of my inner game. No idea why it happened that way. Anyone has a way to fix this?
Dude, I know what you mean. I had this in tons before...I have worked on it and now it's a lot better. There are still some situations that make me feel a bit nervous, but I am working on it.
A few things that might help:
1. try and visualize beforehand what you will be facing. Do the visualization multiple times; as strange as it sounds, after a few times, you will be more comfortable facing the situation
2. Have three things you want to talk about that should be of interest to people around you in the given scenario
3. change the focus from "how people perceive me" to "I want to get to know some of these people". Realize, that deep down, all of us have this fear, at least a little bit
4. Pick up "Feel the fear and do it anyway" from the library and read it (credits to David DeAngelo).
I can assure you things get better. Hope this helps, post back if you need more input.