My friends and I are all trying to focus on ourselves at the moment and decided that dating is too time consuming and expensive so we made a decision that come November, we're going to stop with that and just focus on our personal/professional lives. I need to do it because my dating life has just been one complete joke after my relationship ended and I can't get past a first date with any women I like so I need to reset essentially. The rules we made are no asking for numbers, no hanging out with girls one on one, basically, no focusing on girls at all aside from platonically talking to them. It may sound stupid to some of you, but I figure it's worth a shot as a social experiment of sorts.

My question is, has anyone done anything like this and what was the outcome?