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Seeking a reaction from others is a bad path to start on.
As for befriending and leading guys, go right on ahead.
Good advice to remember. I remember pretty much that exact statement on Blueprint decode (which I have the highest opinion of as a program of any out there), & the reasoning behind it. I think TD said if you started trying people would sense you were seeking their reaction & you would be a social A-hole.
I didn't start going out with that attitude to make others react which is why I guess it's been successful, although I have been experimenting more recently as you analyse it for yourself what is going on & the tendency is to try to break it down to make sure it happens each time out. Same with state I guess when it 1st clicked in just how important it was to game.
Mostly I just go out looking to have fun interactions though & be a cool popular guy at the bar which I never was before & good things started happening when I did. Maybe that is the attidude that should sum it up, & I've got my level of comfort and ease at a point where it's hard to be more comfortable in the interaction than I am which is probably a better way to say what to concentrate on.
I just try to open anyone around me now because I've found there are great experiences to be taken from all. Probably the better lesson. This weekend for instance I had the most interesting conversation I have had in any bar with a stranger with a 49 year old dude just chatting about life in general. He was the 1st person I talked to there & enjoyed it so much I sat there for 2 hours & didn't even worry about sarging for the 1st time in monthes. Funny thing is we looked like we were having fun because we WERE & an attractive women in her 20's that worked there & was off having some drinks & knew him came over I'm pretty sure just to learn about me cause she immediatly pawned off of him asking who I was. Key is to just have fun.