"Elastic adaptability" is the emotional paradigm in which one wants to be operating in. Completely agree on that front. Unfortunately, that level of "being" is hard to attain for the average person. The best way is through pain, experience and unconditioing emotional foundations entrapped within old ways of thinking. Once attained, your state of "being" can become more fluid which is exactly how life is.
Sounds a lot like Cold Approach Pickup.
Which, of course, everybody likes to knock as creepy, try-hard, low value--since those are the labels people most fear having attached to their 'identity.' But the thing is, in 'real life' the traumas needed to shake or reshape your core beliefs about yourself are too few and far between--your ego has too much time to reconstruct itself and rationalize any given set of facts to suit its narrative. Meditation can certainly set a solid foundation. Your subconscious mind can be reprogrammed; certain thought processes can be replaced or cut off, etc. And that's a huge start.
But even then, the conscious mind needs
proof. We tend to look toward our environment to tell us who we are. But the problem is, our environments, for the most part, remain generally static. Take, for instance, the first 18 or so years of your life, when neuroplasticity is the highest--you had your home life, which was good or it wasn't; you had school, where you were told you were good or bad based on your grades and you were popular or you weren't. And for most people, they make assumptions based on that feedback, develop whatever necessary coping mechanisms,
and that's who they are.
If those environments were good and you developed useful assumptions about yourself and healthy, effective coping mechanisms, then that's great. But even then that identity can serve as a bit of a trap and what happens when you face
rejection or
pain or
contradictory evidence? If you're going up to strangers and getting
constantly rejected (and you probably will the first couple months, even if you do alright with girls in other contexts), then you will be forced to find things outside of any given set of external feedback on which to base your identity. By subjecting yourself to that type of external unpredictability and chaos, you're forced to detach yourself from everything other than the core of who you are.
That's super scary and I won't pretend it was all that fun lol (though getting laid a couple times helps), but it's definitely been worth it to me in every facet of my life. And the funny thing is, all those labels--creepy, try-hard, low value--even after gaming in the same city (and it ain't all that big) for over a year, nobody thinks of me that way. My friends are still my friends, my family still loves me, the girls I meet at the end of the night don't care about the handful of girls who rejected me earlier. Nothing really changes. Rejection just strips away all the bullsh1t you use to prop up your ego--and you're left with who you are.