I’m a 24 yr old male, watching my 20s fly past me in what seems like a blink of an eye, and remember being 18 like it was yesterday. I feel like in these 6 years since then I have barely done anything to improve myself. I’ve done a couple of super awkward failed approaches, but nothing to really talk about.

I find myself socially impaired in general, so working myself up to approaching women is on a new level. I freak out from just being in a group of my friends because I always find myself being the guy with nothing to say, get quiet and really just sit as an observer a lot of times. If I can’t even socially participate with strangers or friends that I’m not intimidated by, how do I approach women successfully?

I understand “practice”, but I really don’t know where to start. I feel like I need work in other areas before I just start approaching women. Maybe I’m just overthinking and being a pussy.