Just as RedQuest and Krauser and many others have said, it’s important to blog.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s frustration, after I posted that blog, I went up to girls on two occasions (a 5 and a 6, as it happened) and put myself out there, suggesting that we should do something (soft close) then asking what her schedule is like and deciding on a day and time (hard close) (credit to Playing with Fire‘s texting strategy applied to cold approach for that). Just by getting the balls to ask her schedule, and getting lucky with IOIs from girls I happened to approach, I ended up with twice as many dates scheduled as I got all last semester(i.e. 2 dates) where I was asking for phone numbers alone with “vague plans for a date someday maybe”.
I’m now under the impression that it was in no small part due to the blog entry—where I identified the issue I was facing and put it somewhere public—that I was able to overcome the limiting step I had been facing, i.e. not asking logistics. I now am a proponent for blogging and plan to do it more frequently.
On another note, I’ve been reading this article and finding it useful to clarify and focus my physical game. Dieting and working out and the like. I also finally made myself a weekly baseline. Now I can default to that and pick apart the nonsense idea I’d formerly held deep inside that eating is supposed to be “an experience”, rather than the reality of eating being “to feed the machine/stay alive”. More simply, “eat to live”, not “live to eat”. Goes against how I’d been raised (on a subconscious level—even though my parents would say they explicitly taught the other way a recent discussion revealed that my parents do prefer their food to taste good than be good for them).
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