A few nights ago I was out with some guy friends at a restaurant. Out of no where this girl we were all mutual friends with decides to come in and surprise us. She's absolutely gorgeous and every one of my bros would fuck her. I then realized my one friend was there. This dude has a MENSA IQ, amazing stories to tell, and has fucked so many women he has lost count. He was the best conversationalist I've ever met. He's older than me, has more of a presence, and is by far the coolest person I know. I watched in horror as he controlled the whole set for the next two hours right next to me. I knew I was done. I sat back nervously doing my best to look alpha as fuck as he commanded her total attention. I locked up. I didn't say a word to her the whole time. We only made eye contact once for about 5 seconds. Her attention was fully on him and she was laughing and having a great time. She left and it was over. I thought he had won the battle and I was some loser chode. The end result may surprise you, as I know it surprised myself: He became friend-zoned and I Fclosed her two days later.

Why did it end up this way? How did the amazing conversationalist fail? Was I just really damn lucky? At first I was fucking baffled. It made no sense. Then I realized he became the dancing monkey. Whenever you see a beautiful woman you try to seek validation from them by talking endlessly. She barely talked at all as he gave a monologue for hours and caused her to not invest in him. She watched him talk. My conversations with her elsewhere were quite different. I maintained control of the conversation but only spoke about 30% of the time. This 30%/70% ratio seems to hold true quite frequently. The rest of the time she was talking and spilling her emotions into me investing more and more. I didn't even have to work that hard. I was just a really good listener. Women love to talk and they will invest into you naturally and build attraction without you even doing anything if they are in good company. Being interested in what they have to say and not being afraid to sit back and relax can get you further than you think.

Edit: A few of you seem to be asking about the day 2, though I feel it really wasn't anything spectacular. Nothing you guys don't already know how to do. I felt all the importance was in the other part of the FR that I already included. Anyway, since she was in my social circle I already had established lots of rapport and probably a good bit of interest as well. After some solid text game with a lot of underlying sexual tension, we ended up hanging out at her house. As far as conversation goes we just talked about anything and everything (her major, music, our childhoods, etc). Whenever I was there I just had lots of teasing/bantering/sexual tension. One of my favorite bantering lines I almost always use: "You're just bitter I can pleasure you during sex more than you can pleasure me". Judging by her responses/body language/ eye contact I could see she clearly was interested, so I just started to kclose and used the escalation ladder.