tl;dr: I'm a rank beginner and I want to start approaching women to practice TRP ideas and techniques, but I don't know where to do it.

I've been familiar with TRP ideas for several years, but haven't really applied to my life in earnest. In the meanwhile I accidentally bungled my way into a relationship, and I've tried to act in a RP way with my gf, which I think really improved the quality of the relationship for me and for her.

People at the top of the TRP pyramid say they regularly sleep with many different attractive women. I want to try doing this too (my gf doesn't mind by the way). I have always been a reluctant sort of courter, my naive strategy was basically trying to be really nice and friendly to a woman and hoping that she will like me enough to reward me with sex. Sometimes it worked, but it's a lot of work for very little gain, and as I realized this I ended up withdrawing from the market entirely. The TRP way of approaching women and sleeping with them is much more efficient, but it's way out of my comfort zone. I understand that before I can really do it there will be a lot of failed attempts. This is fine. I look forward to overcoming my weaknesses and improving myself through hard work.

Problem is, I'm all ready to get started on my long journey, but I have no idea where to start. I have been lifting on and off for several years. Especially lately it has produced noticeable improvements. I'm reasonably attractive, and at this point there is no way I am clearly not too ugly to fuck. However I'm not a 10/10 god either so women don't approach me on their own. Clearly it's down to me, but what do I do?

Do I go to a bar or club and just start hitting serially on every woman? I've never really been the bar-going type so I'm like a fish out of water. I can't dance, I can't come up with clever conversation starter lines, and I just get paralyzed by this idea that people are there just to have fun and I'm bothering them (even though clearly women go to these places to get fucked) or they'll get throw a tantrum about how I'm harassing them (I don't care if they don't like it but I fear the social embarrassment). I feel like I'm so unskilled that I'd just make a fool out of myself.

Work isn't very suitable for many reasons. I have few male friends and we hang out rarely due to being busy. I work on a campus so in theory there are lots of attractive available women but I feel like I can't just walk up to them and start a conversation while they're walking to their class. On the bus ride back they're always on their phone and have earbuds on, so I don't see how I can start a conversation. When walking or riding my bike, I feel like if I stop just to talk to a woman she'll be too scared for the outcome to be positive. Basically, I constantly see attractive women all around me, but it's like they're behind a glass pane since I have no idea how to start approaching them.

I've also thought about online. It's a sausage party, but that was always the case. However the OKC in my area is full of uglies and fats. Haven't tried Tinder since my Facebook profile is very ill-maintained, full of embarrassing photos with my mom, and I'm awful at taking selfies.

I'm sure some of you will think I'm just making up excuses. You would be right. There cannot be self-improvement without discomfort, and I know my brain is inventing this bullshit just to prevent the discomfort. I know I should ignore it and challenge myself anyway, but I'm stuck. If I try to think of what to do instead of listening to my fears, I keep drawing blanks. Whatever ideas I do come up with are useless, because I can't separate what is actually a bad idea from what my fears are telling me is a bad idea.

I think I'm at the point where I need force myself to do something that will push me out of this bad mindset, but what is that something?

By analogy, when I first decided to start working out, I was equally clueless at the gym. I didn't know whether to run, skip rope, curl dumbbells, use a machine or do any number of dumb shit. Reading Starting Strength really made a difference - since it was explained in so much detail, step by step, in very concrete and definite language, I was able to force myself to do it. It gave me a wall to chip at, and after many months the wall broke down, and I finally starting understanding how and why strength training works, and now I don't understand how anybody could live without lifting. But it took a very long time of fighting my doubts, and no way I could have stuck to it without Mark's book to lean on. Surely there must be something similar for approaching women - not necessarily a book, but a simple, limited exercise I can do to get over my anxiety and feeling of being stumped?