I've been trying to digest TRP lately. I'm noticing a difference and feeling my potential. I've also recognized and brought more attention to my weaknesses that need work. One of my biggest weaknesses is turning the conversation to a flirty point right off the bat.

I have no problem approaching women, I get very little approach anxiety and I overcome it easily. Say I bump into a woman at the grocery store, at a book store, wherever. Conversations just always seem to fall into the what do you do type of thing, and that's a very hard conversation for me to escalate with. It's so bland! I don't want to just make fun of their career or shit on their life goals, that probably wouldn't work well, so I have no idea how to bring it "there". Obviously a lot of this comes naturally and is based on your ability to improvise, but I need a little guidance here one way or another.

I have had success with the cold approach before, plenty of times, but that's only because I've tried it SO many times.

Thoughts? Resources for reading?