| Thanks for the replies.
I like the idea of sticking around after a blowout - I'll try that next time.
Problem with the social proof thing is this: I realised that most of my friends here are fucking losers and I just don't want to be around them. They are either negative, poorly dressed, drug addicts, and none of them have any proper job prospects or motivation. I've found one guy who has great natural game (the friday I spoke about in my original post, he went home with a girl that night, straight from cold approach to f-close in about 2 hours!) and is positive and good-looking, so I go out with him a lot. Other than that, I'm trying to build up as many female friends from the new law school I just started, and increase my circle and social proof through them. This is why this particular party was so important, and why I was so disappointed when things didn't go my way.
As for the second point, I understand that I might be obnoxious or whatever, I don't know, but what I do know is, guys I meet at parties always seem to really like me and laugh at my jokes, and many girls I know from what I would call "forced" social interactions (i.e. being in class next to someone where they can't just blow you out and walk away) also find me funny. However in cold approaches, and even at this party where, as I said, I thought I had social proof, I seem to find things incredibly difficult. Now it's very odd that it would be something to do with my demeanour or general c+f attitude, because otherwise surely the guys and the other girls would not respond so positively?
As a couple of side issues, I'm finding it hard to enlarge my social circle because I don't know what to say to people I want to be friends with. Yeah sure, we get on well in class or getting lunch or whatever, but I don't really have anything to invite anyone to (as I don't want to introduce them to any of my current friends) so our friendship stays at the "yeah I like them, we get on at school, but I don't see them outside of class" stage, which sucks. As an obvious corollary, this means I also don't have any real day 2 possibilities with a girl I do manage to successfully #-close, because I can't say "hey I'm going to some fun thing with some friends you should come" because the friends I do have are probably in some dingy pub getting drunk and shouting at people! My third (and, I promise, final) point, is that, even when I do have some relatively fun sounding event happening, when I invite people (even those people who I think I have rapport with, who laugh at my jokes and I feel I am on good terms with) they generally decline for whatever reason.
I guess my general question is - how to game *people* in general? How do you hook girls and guys you just want to be friends with, and how do you get them to want to see you again and be interested in you? Apart from the obvious, be funny, confident, intelligent, well dressed, etc. shit that I've heard a million times before?
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