Just had my first really positive night out doing cold approaches so I'm buzzing at the moment.

Started the night out at some quiet bars and ran into a guy that I vaguely know who's gotten into pickup recently. We approached two girls who were nice but I thought my approach was really rusty and it led to a dull conversation.

PRO - nice approach to start out the night.

CON - almost everything else. Asked too many questions off the bat. Not generating enough positive emotion from myself and relying too much on the girls reactions.

Moved on to a louder bar and this is really great. My wingman opens a group of two girls and seems to be doing well with one of them. I walk up and say "why are you hitting on my friend?" acting playfully shocked and she loves it. Turning the frame of the interaction around and insinuating that she was hitting on him (instead of him on her) was great and the girls became really receptive.

PRO - excellent approach. Nice vibing. Reframed the interaction to my advantage.

CON - Should have probably # closed these girls but didn't. Lacked physical escalation in parts.

So these other girls are flaking a bit and going off to get drinks or something. No worries, we open another set of girls and immediately I hit it off with one of them. She's pretty good looking and responding really well so I get some physical escalation in which is great. I end up k closing this girl which is awesome.

PRO - k close!!!! Great physical escalation, nice banter, nice eye-contact.

CON - the set got a bit stale towards the end. I let her get away with a little too much and tolerated her being boring conversationally. Ended up letting her go because the vibe died a little.

So I'm walking around now feeling really good. I'm doing a few more opens but nothing really significant to mention with these. The only thing is that I'm running on social momentum so it's much much easier to approach now than at the start of the night. My friends are about to leave and just as I'm about to go with them I see an exceptionally beautiful girl. I didn't want to properly open as we were leaving so I just walked up and said: "You're beautiful by the way, I have to leave but you're absolutely gorgeous." And just walked away. She was beaming from ear to ear and this was easily my best reaction of the night even though I didn't close anything. This got me thinking:

PRO - Total 100% outcome independance. BUT ALSO I feel sometimes like I'm approaching for the sake of approaching with pickup. In this case I just saw a girl that took my breath away and went up to tell her so. It doesn't really matter that I was outcome independant here I just said exactly what was on my mind and she responded in turn.

CON - didn't close. No dramas I guess, there's always next time.

tl;dr I think this was a pretty eventful night out. I found that the best reaction came when my thoughts were completely aligned with my actions. i.e I approached the girl and told her exactly what I thought rather than "approaching for the sake of approaching" so to speak