About me, I am a 17y/o university junior, who got into TRP about 1/2 year ago, after losing my summercamp oneeitis to a guy that was about equally good looking, and actually less popular than me. In retrospect I can chalk up my failing to mostly oneeitis (I had convinced myself that she was the first girl I ever fell in love with, that she was perfect, jada, jada, jada...). But after lifting, building frame(still my weakest point), reading all of the sidebar and practicing to approach women at parties I still find myself doing pretty much same old, same old when talking to them. I was raised by a more or less misandrist mother and my patron saint of all beta providers of a father, so I had it hammered into me from a very early age that I was not be direct in my desires, nor in any way allowed to play myself up. This reduces the types of conversations I am currently able to have to basically asking a girl about her life and cracking a few jokes.

Now before you tell me to improve myself in any other aspect: I know

I know that I am not finished in any of TRP's 'disciplines' but the subreddit provides more than enough help with that, the only thing I am looking for here is help with escalating.