So I’m doing this to help overcome social anxiety as well as rejection. Cold approaching is one of the things I do to do it

Now what I will say is cold approaching almost 90% of the time doesn’t work in an average setting. Not to say don’t do it, but expect there to be a lot of rejection and only a few wins.

If you’re in a club/bar setting then it’s a bit different.

But what I’ve learned from cold approaching is that it not only helps improve your ability to improvise and think quickly on the spot. But also learn how to close a convo and getting the girl’s number.

I’ll give an example, i recently came back from the states. I was in a shop and I asked one of the workers if they sold headphones(it was on the day I flew back home) she said yeah, it was a different kind of wireless headphones and I made a joke about being old and never seen anything like that before, she started to laugh. I then asked where she was from, she said she’s Mexican and I said some joke about how I pretended to know Spanish and got some laughs out of her.

We go back and forth, she asks me about my stay, how I found it- told her it was crazy etc etc, convos going good then, just after I paid for my headphones I must’ve said something along the lines of “I know this gonna sound forward, but I actually wanted to chat to you cos I thought you were hella attractive”

She immediately starts blushing and laughing. I was like, what can I say I gotta be real lol. Anyway I ask for her digits but she said she was on the clock, so she couldn’t and her manager came out and called her over.

Ofc there could’ve been things I couldve done to extend the convo, but at the end of the day I still see it as a W because most people wouldn’t have been able to close.

Even though I shot my shot and didn’t score, I got experience in the field and that’s what’s more important, but i definitely wouldn’t be able to do this if it wasn’t for cold approaching. So my advice is to you guys, just go for it.

Also, if you don’t know how to naturally lead a conversation, then it helps with this too. I can’t tell you the amount of girls I have come across that have just stared blankly at me after telling them my name and asking what they do for a living.