AngelusPUA said:
Agreed, that guy has to get out into the field but all this waving and winking stuff won’t work and it will just leave him feeling more confused and depressed. Think about it man in typical American shut off, isolated culture if he walks up to women waving and winking he will be perceived as some psycho and will be shunned. He is better off heading out to a nightclub or bar because they are accepted socializing grounds...
It may be helpful if you actually read my posts twice just in case you missed something. This is ABSURD. I never said walk up to a girl and wink, smile and wave. You go up to a girl, and you say "Hi.", or "Hi. Something about you really caught my eye....", or "What is the story behind that?", or any other thing that comes to mind.
If you DO NOT APPROACH a girl that is a distance away, say you are seated away from her, or it seems 'crazy' to go up to her to approach her, or you want to test the waters - then you wink, smile and wave, and believe me, even doing that to a HB7+ across the street is difficult for me to do, and I'm not even approaching.
There is no statement where I said approach a girl and wink, smile and wave, that's purely retarded.
AngelusPUA said:
If he starts doing street approaches today he WILL get rejected and he WILL be back here asking us what he done wrong. If you don’t have the personality, skills and confidence to back it up than you have a better chance winning the lottery than getting a number from a cold, street approach. That’s the reality of it and why do I say this? Because I’m not in it for the money, I’m not trying to sell e-books or workshops I’m just giving advice.
HTSWW is premised on a number's game, that means you will eventually, even with street approaches, seem to have some girls where there is more connectivity or chemistry than others. Actually, it does have a point, because once you become comfortable with flirting or just talking out, then you get to a point, where you can hide your 'true self' behind it, or even not mean everything or anything you are saying. To that extent, these habits are 'aids' of helping achieve that social fluidity that's tantamount to confidence, because you fail to take rejection personal.
The HTSWW book outlines a sort of 'rejection exercise' of saying 'hi' to six attractive women a day for 30 days, or 180 total 'hi' attempts for people that are super-terrified of approaching, or at the very least, you have these two habits of approaching someone and saying something, or waving from a distance, and either having them approach you, or you approach them once you've seen some reciprocity. Once one understands that rejection is not that big of a deal, or can just laugh of it, then one can be more confident in approaches because the 'worst-case scenerio' will no longer contribute to approach anxieties.
Anyway, again, the point is being fluid and comfortable with approaches. The only weakness of this method, as another poster correctly pointed out, was no contact closes were attempted in a 3 year period of time in either street or social approaches.
My problem, is when a girl responded flirtily, or really reciprocated, I took it as an ego-recovery for all the prior rejections or failures I experienced and just 'felt good', rather than actually contact closing the prospects due to the number close phobia. Obviously, in social contexts, or where I have a good report with any HB girl, I'm going to contact close just for the exercise, whether or not I have a g close.