Okay so here’s a topic I had a hard time overcoming, approaching a complete stranger in public had to be the most difficult obstacle to overcome in learning pick up. Getting those bitch butterflies out of your stomach before approaching is something that we can never completely get rid of of, but you can re-wire your brain to knowing that approaching is nothing but in your favor. In order to limit the amount of hesitation when starting to approach is knowing the importance of warming up. Cold approaching during the day can be difficult for beginners, I personally would walk around for 2 hours making up dumb excuses to why it isn’t worth going to talk to a girl. “She’s on the phone I don’t want to bother her” “She looks like she’s on her period, prolly best I don’t approach her” etc. In order to limit your anxiety of approaching you must understand that getting the first approach out of the way is way more fucking important than you think. Think of Michael Jordan when he would warm up before a game, you let me know of a game where he didn’t warm up and I’ll personally give you a blow job. He would practice some layups and after awhile he would shoot around. Nobody in history (besides Allen Iverson) has ever entered a game without warming up first. GETTING THE FIRST APPROACH OUT OF THE WAY IS FUCKING CRUCIAL. I know for a fact that there are guys out there that really believe they’re improving by reading about seducting girls all day, and then trying out what they learned on the girls they already know in their social circle but the fact is in order to get better you must approach girls you haven’t known initially so you can understand for yourself that no matter what happens there is always a chance meet a new girl. Here are a few tips I used personally to overcome approaching when I started, firstly when you see that dime piece that you would dip your ball in acid for, you must know about the 3 second rule. Rule is you have 3 seconds to approach, and if you bitch out then start doing push ups. I don’t give a shit where you are, if you don’t approach a girl you even find slightly attractive then get on the floor and give yourself 10. Secondly talk to random strangers saying some off the wall shit. This will get your lips flapping so you’ll get somewhat comfortable with talking to random people. Lastly as soon as you get to where you’re gonna practice talk to the first person you see without thinking about what to say, this also will help with not giving a shit. As soon as you start talking to random people you’ll understand that approaching in public isn’t as big of a deal as you make it out to be, people will forget about your very existence within the first 10 minutes after meeting you so why the fuck do you care so much about what they think? Let me know if you still have trouble approaching because I don’t think the majority of people here have had it as bad as me. Cheers to you all and happy hunting.