Great post, re-reading this was very helpful. I'm just starting to do cold approaches regularly now and a lot of what you say rings so true and makes even more sense now. I've only done 3 direct approaches in the past few weeks, but I'm already feeling a lot more confident having gotten 1 # close. Now when I see a girl I want to approach, instead of thinking about it and hoping we cross paths, I find myself instinctively walking in her direction if I have time.
Did you use any direct openers? For instance I am approaching college girls on campus on walk-bys so I have been using the "are you single" approach. I'd love to use situational approaches, but I don't know how I can work them into this situation since we are just crossing paths. Do you have any advice on this? Thanks for the great post.