Hey guys these approaches took place over a period of 3 days during a jazz fest event.

Day 1: The first day, my friend and I were late so we couldn't really approach too many people. Apart from that we were too busy jamming to the last band performing.

Day 2: So on the second day we came relatively early. We were trying out the rehearsed lines, basically "Hey, where did you get that whatever piece of article stood out. A friend's birthday is coming up and we were indecisive about a gift" or "You seem familiar, did you go to this college or event". We ended up approaching like 20 girls number closed on 2 and got 1 insta. None of them were really receptive and the conversations died in the next 2 days.

Day 3: So my friend was still trying the rehearsed line approach because he wanted to get over his approach anxiety. I had just finished reading models by Mark Manson (great book btw) and wanted to try the whole intention based approach. So, I just forgot about any rehearsed lines and genuinely interacted with girls and people in general with the intention of chilling. Sometimes I just said "Hey, how's is going" or "Can I sit here". Now we approached around 15-20 girls again, didn't really count and got 3 numbers and 2 instas. Not a big difference but, the interaction post the exchange in the next few days was drastic. Out of 3 girls whose number I took 2 of them are quite receptive and one of them even agreed to meet the next day. The girl I met is currently in a perudo relationship, so again, I decided to project intentions instead of words. I projected an intention of I have no problems being friends with you but, I am also attaracted to you. So, what started as a friendly conversation quickly escalated into some light kissing.

So, I feel like approaching intentions works better than approaching with words. This is the first time I've tried cold approaching and it's also my first field report but, I plan on doing more of them soon enough. Hope this helps someone and thoughts are always welcome :)