Today was a big milestone in my journey. Today I realized that my over eagerness to always go direct was inhibiting my growth because I was getting a lot of instant blowouts. As a beginner, I need to practice my conversational skills and should talk to lots of women. That's why I decided to go semi direct until further notice. I will mostly use a set of openers for now. I will only go direct if I already have a strong eye contact with the girl before opening. Or I feel a magic moment ✨.

Also thanks for all of the people here who have been giving me their great advice and feedback. I hope you will continue doing this.

Interaction 1 - This was still direct because I was in my head. I was waiting for a friend at a Bus stop and this cute girl was coming towards me. I said stop and said that I have to tell her something. My voice was still slow and I said in my weak voice, you are................. very attractive. She looked at me puzzled and said Thanks and left.

Interaction 2 - I went to the mall with my friend. After I left him because we decided to approach separately, I saw this girl coming towards me. When she came close to me, I said excuse me I have a question, you have a creative and artistic vibe about you, are you an artist? She lit up and told me she is studying music. I told her about my friend who studies art and we talked about her experience for a bit. Then she said that she was actually going on lunch because she is on break and she left.

Interaction 3 - I saw this girl waiting outside a shop for her partner. She was tall and was wearing pink so I went up to her and told her that I have noticed her and thought that I have a cute flamingo in the mall. She laughed and said that's really nice. I asked what she was doing and she said she was waiting for her partner. So I left

Interaction 4 - I saw this girl walking away and went into a shop. First I hesitated but then I went inside and said excuse me and used the same creative artistic opener. She said she wish she was studying arts. She actually worked in marketing. She did have a floral tattoo on her arm so I said you do have a bit of artistic side. We talked for a bit but I still didn't know how to take the conversation forward so she said have a nice day and left

Interaction 5 - It was actually quite hard to find girls to approach in a mall on a weekend because almost all of them were either with their family or friends or partners. I finally found one and used my one opener that I had remembered for today because I didn't had time to look at other variations of the opener ( there are actually quite a bit for different types of girls that you will read in future Interactions) and she just said she is not an artist and left back to her friend.