I've been looking to carry out this exercise since I first came across it a couple of weeks ago. It seems very simple, and just the kind of place for a beginner to get started.

And I'm a beginner.

Today, in fact only a matter of minutes ago, I got back from trying out a softer variant of the mission described. My goal was to go out to the local shopping centre and highstreet and to simply smile at women I made eye contact with.

And I failed.

However, I'm not too down about it. Today was supposed to be a warm-up for performing the full mission tomorrow. Now, I'll have to dive straight in.

I want a little feedback about my performance today.

Was I being picky?

For example, I only wanted to and attempted to practice on young, lone women. I didn't practice on older women, I didn't practice on groups of women, I didn't practice on women with men, and so on. Should I have at least tried these too?

Also, I understand that my variant was in fact very passive (which of course isn't the way this mission should be done) but I couldn't achieve eye contact with anyone. This is partly on me, but by saying "Hi", is this how you get women to notice you? Or should I already be making eye contact before I attempt to say anything?

Anyway, if I don't get a response, I'll report back tomorrow with how things went. I'm determined to clear this first leap!

Went out again today with the intention of improving on yesterday's failure.

I fucked up... again. Frustrating, but I'm far from giving up. This is the first step. The first step is the hardest. Once I get past this, then things will get moving.

So I need to get moving.

Here's how today (Sunday) went:

I got up, ate and got washed and dressed up nicely. Winter's starting now, so I put on a nice coat and walked down to the shopping centre this cold, clear day, just after one o'clock.

I walked down past the station and on towards the centre. I didn't walk past many young women, but when I did, I either didn't properly make eye contact, couldn't get them to make eye contact, or didn't try to make eye contact because they were on their phone, in groups or with boyfriends.

That's one thing I noticed today, the sheer quantity of the women I wanted to say "Hi" to, had I found the courage, that were with boyfriends. Is this a normal thing, for all the HBs to be with guys?

Anyway, so on the way to the station would have been the ideal time to get started. Not many people around so a nice, low pressure environment without fear of being judged by others. This is something that I struggled with at the centre, the busyness of the place and the self-consciousness that came with it, the fear of being judged by other strangers. Not good, I know.

So I got to the centre, and again, most women in groups, with boyfriends, on phones or not making eye contact with me.

Ignoring the number of times I couldn't get women's attention, I did manage eye contact on occasion, though I didn't want to smile at the women with guys that looked at me.

When I did make eye contact with lone women, one of three things happened: I broke it by looking past them or to the side, they broke it, or they walked past before I smiled or said "Hi". Of course, all of these were good opportunities to give it a go and say "Hi", but over-thinking things instead of just reacting, and the self-consciousness I felt in the busy environment meant I never managed it.

One thing I did notice was that most women that looked at me not only looked away fairly quickly, they also looked down. (Perhaps my demeanor on approach made them feel intimidated; I don't think I'm naturally the most friendly looking person. I'll have to work on that.) Could I be staring too hard or be looking too intimidating? Is their looking down necessarily a bad sign?

Anyway, today was my first mission attempt after my pre-mission yesterday. I'll try again soon, and am considering going during the week when it's perhaps both less busy and with more lone women, rather than women going around with boyfriends or friends for a weekend shop. Also, with each successive visit I'll hopefully get more familiar and comfortable with the place. I'm new to this town, so everything's quite foreign.

Any feedback and advise would be great!

I did it felt great I had alot of women stop smile,laugh and started talking to me it was great

Today was the third time trying to interact with women at the mall and in the street. I'm still yet to say "Hi", but I'm getting there, even if at a slow pace.

One thing I've noticed I struggle with is eye contact. I find myself averting my eyes when I think I've been spotted looking, but I forced myself harder today, and damn it felt good. Although it wasn't encouraging when women quickly looked down, I did hold eye contact hard with a number of women and got some stunning smiles! May not sound like much, but for me, that's progress.

I'll try again to actually complete the mission on Friday in two days time, and when I'm back in my home town this weekend, I'll go out and try the mission in a more familiar mall.

A summary of today; failure, but not as bad a failure as the two times before it. The sooner I get this ball rolling, the better.

So today i did the newbie mission. I thought it might be a good idea to do it at school (i go to school once a week) because obviously there are many girls my age.
I just said "Hi" to every nice looking girl. Actually it wasnt that big of a deal for me, since im actually not a shy person at all. But the reactions where really different. Most girls just ignored me. Probably because they where in a rush or some, i dont know. Some ( i believe only 2 or 3) girls actually said "Hello" back in a friendly way. And some just looked at me but didnt say anything at all.
Well... the result could have been better, but im glad i did it, and i will try to repeat this mission as often as possible.

Today, I did my first newbie mission.

The challenged seemed simple enough in theory but in practice, I was stunned by how big of a pussy I am. Till now, I have never thought that talking to girls was hard - probably because I never talked to girls.

Managed to get in a seven 'hi' s and handshakes, a few names, and that's it. Not a runaway success but a single step forward to boss-ness.

Next time, I'll get a number.

Strikey's bloodied but not beaten.

I find it amazing how this mission shows exactly where the problem lies. I've now done this mission twice because the first time in my opinion was unsuccessful. Today, Black Friday, was the day I chose to do it. I also have a theory about beards, and this is indeed the end of no shave November. I was at the mall today for a total of one hour and sure enough the same feeling I had the first time was still there. Turns out, if you say hello to a girl they do two things. The first is absolutely nothing, they keep walking and could be because they didn't hear you. The latter is just a cordial hello. I felt as though I was looking for the perfect moment to say hello for most of the day. It didn't really seem to matter when I said hello, it was more about how I said hello as long as I had a smile I look to them in the eye that was when I got a response. If I waited for them to be next to me nothing happened. There were in fact a couple girls who stop their conversations just to say hello and then they kept walking.

Date: 11/29/2013
Time: 1:30pm-4:00pm
Place: union Mall


Report:

I woke up and spent the first 2 hrs of my day preparing for the mission. I Did my work out to get the testosterone flowing, showered, cologne, best shirt and best pants and started out to the mall where I knew it was going to be packed.

I made sure I was using an erect posture, great smile and made eye contact with as many women as I could.

Results:
Mixed results. No one rejected me that's for sure. My issue was not the methods used but the region and demographics of my area. Most of the women I saw had between 1-5 kids, where Hispanic and most over the age of 40.

I was hit on by 4 women as result of this test. (one was old enough to be my mother, another was 14YR's old, one had four kids and the last was also too young) hell I didn't hit on any of them, they walked right up to me and started talking to me.

Conclusion
mission accomplished?

Was going to try this today during school, but bitched out.

Round 2 Tomorrow

I can even engage in conversation with anyone, guess that is beyond the newbie mission,
what to do next ?

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I done that several months ago and now i feel incredible. At first, bait for eye contact and smile is freaking killing me from the inside. But after doing this for several days and even weeks, saying hye, initiate a conversation seems nothing to me. Even if they ignore me (maybe because sometime, my voice is low volume), i don't feel a thing and that feeling of nothing feel great. Can you guys imagine, being ignore and you feel nothing from it? nothing at all? It's feel fuqing great!!!

That's only the beginning. Once you actually go out to get laid, you will see this more and more often. At first it 's just those little excuses in your head. But when you get more experienced, it becomes part of the game. Learn from this, that being rejected or ignored means no sh*t, it only means whatever you think of it.

Wallie

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Failed

I tried it yesterday and I can only think of three reasons for my failure

1- the most important: I had some chances (despite reason 2) but I still need to overcome my social anxiety. I'm doing this everywhere I go ( making eye contact) and I remember doing this in the underground. strong eye contact for 2-3 second with hb9 girl and then I waved with the hand to say hi, but she had just left the eye conact; anyway this one time I succeded but I felt my heart beat go crazy.

2- i've chosen really bad timing to go to the mall, almost no people and a lot of them were couple

3- these days people don't make eye contact! i'm trying really hard in making eye contact but people can't even keep it for half a second

do you guys have any advice for the next time, that will be really soon?

I did this last year and a girl number-closed me in line at Panda Express.

When I first read the "Newbie Mission," I thought to myself, "That sounds really hard! I can't just say "hi" to every beautiful woman I see, that's why I'm here in the first place!"

After my initial mini-heart attack, I pulled myself together, and said "I'm doing this. This is the only way I'm going to get over my fears."

I decided to take advantage of the fact that because of my job, I own a wardrobe of nice suits. I wore a tailored grey suit, a white French cut shirt open at the collar, no tie, with cuff links and some loafers. I sprayed on some cologne, gelled my hair, but decided against shaving and left my 5 o' clock shadow.

I went to the local mall around 7pm, which is when its busiest, and just started walking around. I must have passed 30 stores before I said "hi" to any girls.

Now, I wear suits a lot, to work and to bars and clubs, but I don't think I've ever just walked around somewhere like a mall dressed in a suit before. I started to notice a lot of double takes and lingering gazes from women, even though I hadn't said anything to them (something about a young guy in a nice suit gives me an air of mystery or something I guess? can I use this to my advantage somehow?).

Once I realized that I was dressed better than every other guy in the mall, I had the confidence to say "hi" to the first girl. I forgot to smile first, but she glanced at me, smiled shyly, and said "hi" back.

After that, it was cake. I started making eye contact with the girl a few seconds before smiling and saying "hi" and it worked wonders! I even said "hi" to a group of 3 girls, all of them giggled and said "hi" back, and one of them almost broke her neck looking back at me as they walked away! I probably could have gotten her number if I'd tried.

Overall, I said "hi" to about 50 women (only the attractive ones that would normally intimidate me). Mostly positive responses. I had a few girls glance at me but say nothing, and one just plain ignored me. She shook my confidence for a little bit, but then I realized she was just a stuck-up b***h who didn't know what she was missing.

I feel extremely proud of myself for making the first step from AFC, and I think I learned some valuable lessons:

1. Just the act of saying "hi" to a beautiful woman is powerful, because I think most men don't do that
2. Always look your best, it makes you feel confident
3. Make eye contact
4. Don't get discouraged if a stuck up b***h in a sundress ignores you
5. Attitude is everything

Now that I'm at least partially over my fears, I think I will try this again later this weekend, but instead of just saying "hi," I will also throw in a compliment or say something spontaneous. Seems like a logical step.

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