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Just some stuff that I learned during the last few days. So, as you can see from the title, I embarked on the 30 day challenge. Well, actually, it'll be the 31 day challenge, to make it symbolic of the fact that I just turned 31 :)
So what have I learned? First off, this going-out-every-night shit is fucking awesome! Why haven't I done it earlier? I'm sure many of the guys that have done it feel the same way. A lot of negative feelings I had before I started with this simply disappeared. Like approach anxiety, for example. I don't get approach anxiety now, I get approach excitement. That is, I still get the anxiety but it has transformed into a sort of feeling you get when you ride a rollercoaster. It's become fun.
Also I adopted Julien's joke (not sure about the precise credits...), when he goes "rejection!" with a kind of tone which is more suitable for an achievement rather than a failure. Because ultimately rejection is not a failure. I really learned this during my first 6 days of the challenge. In fact, during the last two nights I kinda lost my intent, that is, after a few approaches I lost the interest in approaching. Whatever the reason (I could talk about it a bit, but just trying to make another point here), at some point I said, ok, I'm already here, what can I do to get myself back into action? And I found an answer. I told myself, well, dear sir, let's get rejected! So I found the hottest girl in my vicinity and approached her. And she was actually pretty friendly. After a few sentences tho I said some stupid shit, totally out of self-amusement, and she blew me out (I said something like "so, do you lie to all strangers?" after she answered no to my question whether she speaks English). After that I felt like I was born again :) I did some scary shit, and the adrenaline got me back into approaching.
Oh yeah, now almost every time I get rejected I say "rejection!" and it really makes me laugh. I think I'm on my way to making rejection my friend rather than foe.
Peace
imaginary
Just some stuff that I learned during the last few days. So, as you can see from the title, I embarked on the 30 day challenge. Well, actually, it'll be the 31 day challenge, to make it symbolic of the fact that I just turned 31 :)
So what have I learned? First off, this going-out-every-night shit is fucking awesome! Why haven't I done it earlier? I'm sure many of the guys that have done it feel the same way. A lot of negative feelings I had before I started with this simply disappeared. Like approach anxiety, for example. I don't get approach anxiety now, I get approach excitement. That is, I still get the anxiety but it has transformed into a sort of feeling you get when you ride a rollercoaster. It's become fun.
Also I adopted Julien's joke (not sure about the precise credits...), when he goes "rejection!" with a kind of tone which is more suitable for an achievement rather than a failure. Because ultimately rejection is not a failure. I really learned this during my first 6 days of the challenge. In fact, during the last two nights I kinda lost my intent, that is, after a few approaches I lost the interest in approaching. Whatever the reason (I could talk about it a bit, but just trying to make another point here), at some point I said, ok, I'm already here, what can I do to get myself back into action? And I found an answer. I told myself, well, dear sir, let's get rejected! So I found the hottest girl in my vicinity and approached her. And she was actually pretty friendly. After a few sentences tho I said some stupid shit, totally out of self-amusement, and she blew me out (I said something like "so, do you lie to all strangers?" after she answered no to my question whether she speaks English). After that I felt like I was born again :) I did some scary shit, and the adrenaline got me back into approaching.
Oh yeah, now almost every time I get rejected I say "rejection!" and it really makes me laugh. I think I'm on my way to making rejection my friend rather than foe.
Peace
imaginary