1/16 Night Game

sadsalad21 · 2026-01-17T20:20:03+00:00

Detach from outcomes. Your job is reps, not validation.

Western-Month-3877 · 2026-01-17T17:45:02+00:00

Lower your goals/expectations. There’s no such bad nights if you really enjoy talking to random strangers.

Share us your method of approach, maybe some of us can help you. Sometimes I see guys coming in too strong when doing a cold approach. Like already asking for a number while all the signs she’s sent are barely any interests. Idk if that’s the case with you.

Matter_Still · 2026-01-17T18:15:00+00:00

Whenever I hear the word “set” or “sets”, I know that the guy can quote “The Gospel According to Eric” chapter and verse.

The word “set” removes the humanness from the situation and reduces it to a mechanical process like approaching a vending machine, punching a few buttons in the right order, and scoring a bag of Fritos.

Markovick (aka, Mystery) drew on his modest success as a magician to describe approaching a woman, i.e., “opening a set" as a performer might a musical act or standup comedy routine.

Not all that long ago a guy would say, “I approached a girl—she was with her friend at Houlihan’s. We talked but she just wasn’t interested.” He might try another but not likely. SHE was the one of fifty in the room who caught his eye.

Today, the tenants of pickup mandate you flit from girl-to-girl—sorry, from set-to-set, like a bee cross-pollinating flowers.

You went out and hit on—yes, hit on—at least 10 different women because your philosophy is that there will be another bus along in five minutes. You don’t particularly care where the bus is going, just that it’s a bus and it might get you somewhere. Similarly, there is no real difference to you between this “set”, the next, and the 10th. You probably are more discriminating about a shirt you buy than a woman you approach to seduce.

That’s a problem and the way you fix it is not by learning how to deal with rejection, it’s figuring out why you can go 0-10.

A famous writer said if you have a problem in Act 3 it’s because you had a problem in Act 1.

You might want to really put “game” under the microscope and see if it really is based on science as Markovick claimed or just his pseudoscientific theories. (See, among others, the “Three Second Rule” or his contempt for the “Friendship Zone”.)

There might be a better way.

Broad-Cranberry-9050 · 2026-01-20T18:18:59+00:00

How do you deal with rejection and bad nights??

I had to learn that a bad night had nothign to do with getting rejected. I had to learn that a good night was a night i had fun regardless of whether i got a number or not. And in turn i ended up getting more numbers iwth that mentality.

The thing is you may not realzie it but you making a bad night equal getting rejected, you are putting too much pressure on yourself to get numbers. Just have fun, talk to your frineds, etc.

Title	1/16 Night Game
Author	Dependent_One_8131
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Date	January 17, 2026 5:01 PM UTC (6 months ago)
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