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The Guy's Guide To Girls - Why it's Important to Improve Your Skills When Meeting Women

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Thursday, 9th December 2010
Why should you improve your skills with women? First off, there’s the obvious reason. After that, it just makes so much more sense, and saves you from so much hassle. If you’re good at meeting new women, you no longer have to go after girls that you work with, that are from your class, that are friends with all your friends, or that you live with. (Admittedly, I utterly failed on that last one but we live and learn). You don’t have to worry about all the inevitable awkwardness that will ensue when you break up. If you date a girl that is engrained in your social circle, you’ll probably lose some of your friends if you have a bad break-up. Isn’t losing your girlfriend bad enough in itself?

There are so many more interesting girls, and opportunities that open up for you when you become good at meeting new people and women in particular. Why would you ever limit yourself just to the girls in your social circle? Is it really likely, from an objective standpoint, that the girl of your dreams just happened to be allocated to the same accommodation block as you?

Many people think that if you’re good at meeting girls, and have certain “player-like” qualities then you’ll be more likely to cheat in a relationship. The logic in this is so flawed. Who’s more likely to cheat, if the opportunity arises: the guy who is choosing to be in a relationship because of how much he likes the girl? Or the guy that is in the relationship because he doesn’t have any other options? If you’re going to improve your skills with women, you’re going to have to take risks and you’re going to get rejected. This doesn’t matter though. Embrace rejection. It’s a learning experience. If you see meeting women as a learning curve (which it is) then the only way you can fail is by not taking action. Not asking for that girl’s phone number, or not talking to that girl that blatantly gave you an opening in Salvation. Drop any ego you have based around the fact you’ve never been rejected by a girl. All this means is that you haven’t taken any risks, and you definitely haven’t got with that many girls.

Unfortunately, it’s much more socially acceptable for a guy to randomly start grinding a girl while she’s drunk in Ziggy’s than to try and start a conversation with her in, say, Costcutter. Think about how f*cked up that is for a second. But that’s - for the most part - the society we live in. Actually, thinking about it, you can hit on that girl in Costcutter if you want, the worst that can happen is she rejects you and then, so what? Honestly, it doesn’t matter. There are plenty of opportunities to meet girls. Next time you’re in a club, go up to a girl you find attractive, be confident, smile, and just say, “Hey! I’m ....” It will probably go much better than you think it will. If you think you can’t do this then get involved in more stuff, start going to socials, and start talking to people everywhere you can.

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