I'm 21. There's a things I still don't get about dating-beign alpha male, even tho I have read a lot of books(a lot of them contradict each other) 1. Confident man doing whatever he wants, he doesn't need approval and stuff, he doesn't care what others think. Well, then there's question I have:

Does that mean I'm not confident if I like nice guy approach(even tho I know it's not effective at all). It just feels natural for me, and I want to do it(which should mean I'm confident after all?)

2.Bad guy/Badass how does one click with ever walking up to a girl? Like doesn't it ruin your value-persona? How do ones ever ask out girl without losing value-"bad guy style"

3.Following question: how does guy make girl desperate of him? If he is the needy one when walking up to her? I know that stuff, when you trying to lower her value, but how does that ever work? I can't imagine be invested more in the girl than she is in me, if she was the one to make the move first.

4.In order to get a gf you need to get into state, when you don't need one. What's the point then?

I been reading a lot of books, tried some stuff in real live/online dating. Not much of that have worked(yea I know don't blame the game-blame yourself) . Than I had my friend and we hang out gather, had a few drinks. Start talk about tinder/start message some girls. I was shocked by him not knowing any "rules" in online dating. He literally have sent 10 messages as his opener to a girl. I couldn't even imagine this one to work, but it did. She replied to him sent him her number and on phone invited him over to her place. The friend I'm talking about is not more attractive than me(I believe), making far less money than I do but slightly taller than I am(but he did not have it in his bio so idk if that matters.

Well, recently I started to try out a nice guy approach, but I did touching and stuff. Have by far more dates right now(but I do touching and stuff).

Is "be yourself 4Head" advice is best one after all? I feel like this right now. I feel like most useful advices are work on your lifestyle,body language ones and touching thing. But others are just making you less and less confident/more awkward after all, at least how it's been for me so far.