That's exactly it!
SELF-MASTERY said:
I purposely left out numbers because [...] the one thing that you can control is your willingness to go out in the world and approach.
Especially for total beginners, the focus is way overboard on getting a number and not where on what it should be on,
viz. developing a decent set of social skills and being a genuinely interesting person.
I don't think it's likely that anyone can set his sights too high, but for beginners to look completely over the basics and launch into something without considering the foundation of what they're doing is just asinine. All that failure sucks ass, too. I know a few guys who—after getting brutally shot down dozens of times in a row—were more than ready to
tie the knot when they finally found a girl who would return their phone calls.
Numbers can sometimes fall out of thin air, if you're an interesting/interested enough guy. I say work on that first, then try for numbers.
—Unless what you're doing is working really well. How's your success rate with that,
donArjun?
