I'll be honest, I am one of those dudes who has kind of only read the stuff and hasn't gotten the experience. I have read this stuff for 1.5 years now, but my success is just as rare as it was at the beginning.

I don't approach girls although it does seem kind of frowned upon for college dudes to do because it is more about using your social circles to meet girls because you don't want to be known as "that guy who is trying to be a lady's man" by approaching.

Otherwise, I have tried applying what I have learned. I come off as confident and I am a funny guy but I still fail to garner attraction. I don't know what it is, perhaps I am just not escalating? But I just don't see any signs of attraction- whether it be the hair twirling or any of the other signs. Perhaps I just need to stop waiting for these signs and assume attraction earlier and go for the hang out/number regardless of how I think they are perceiving me?

I would say I am mediocre with kino. I use it when there is a good purpose. But I don't FIND reasons to kino or randomly kino.

I really pay attention to what they are saying and sometimes bring up stuff from past conversations. I use sarcasm a lot which I think does a good job of both simultaneously negging them while praising them.

Is it REALLY just that I don't escalate with girls I don't know well? Honestly, it has always been my problem to "escalate" relationships in general. I suck at making class friends my friends outside of class or inviting my friends to hang out. I like for people to invite me out and to show some signs of wanting me.

Please do tell if I am missing something obvious, I feel like I covered the basics of inner game necessary to be an attractive male. The only thing I can think I am screwing up is just not escalating with people in general. So if you all could help me there (how to get to the point where you should ask for #/to hang out with people in general, how to know you are at that point and how to ask) because I imagine I answered my title question with this post lol.

I forgot to mention about having an interesting life which I would say I do. I am a CivE in AFROTC, a frat, like/play a lot of sports and I just like all the popular music so I can relate to people in that regards too.

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I think I am a pretty good looking person, although sometimes I second guess that because of my lack of success. http://i.imgur.com/0Z926r3.jpg

Another thing I have always considered might be a problem is just how I construct conversations, we mostly talk about the typical stuff and I always find a way to make it entertaining, but I am wondering if it'd be better to talk about more interesting things (with less laughs I imagine). My good friend would always ask the most interesting and odd questions that were incredibly open ended and he had a lot of success with girls (he also was a cocky, funny, interesting son of a bitch who attracted girls easily and escalated). While I might get into the realm of stuff like what they did over the summer or what hobbies they have that I can relate to...right now what sticks out most to me is that he'd ask for their advice (or opinions) about very odd things. That'd of course always get the girl talking on and on and on. It also makes them perceive him as unique. I'll elaborate more because I am going to ask him what he usually asks girls about.