My first real lay was from a student at work. I found out she had a crush on me but I would have never made a move let alone talk to her. What facilitated success was that we matched on Tinder. Extremely ironic I know. So before and after I basically had negative levels of game but she just liked me and that was enough for the most part.

There's two things I take away from this.

Firstly, if you are an attractive guy you need to stop overthinking shit. It's good that you've learnt what girls are all about but stop trying to have some process in your head for how you are going to carry out an interaction. Just say hi, wing it, be awkward. Have some faith that if she likes you she's not gonna make it hard for you even if you spit some verbal diarrhoea.

Secondly, Tinder is fucking shit. That girl could have got with any guy she wanted. She was an 8 on Tinder. I had 0 game but the fact she knew me from REAL LIFE put me on her priority list.