A Non-Zero Chance At Something Magical

[James D]

How do you keep going when the odds are so low though?

Taking action when the odds are low (or appear low, from your assessment, which depends on the flair you've developed over time) makes sense when you realize that not taking action puts your odds at a flat zero.

Say the odds are 0.00000000001 %.

This means the choice boils down to:

1. Take action with a 0.00000000001 % chance of success

or

2. Take no action with a guaranteed 0% chance of success (100% chance of failure)

I'll pick option #1 and do whatever I can to raise the odds.

I'm a firm believer in raising the odds the best I can.

If I spot two equally cute girls, and one of them seems more receptive than the other, I'll go for her because the odds are there.

Everything you do with your fundamentals and game is essentially raising the overall probability any particular girl likes you.

But it all comes into effect when you actually take action, with the exception of the girls approaching themselves, as Spike pointed out.

 

[Atatürk]

I remember something you said during our last conversation that really stuck with me. We were talking about your lay with the flight attendant, I asked what motivated you when the odds seemed so slim to pull something like that off. Your answer was something like "if there's even a 1% chance that I can make it happen, then it's worth taking the shot."

Coincidentally, as I started writing this, I was sitting in the exact spot at the exact Starbucks where I spotted a girl who I approached and banged two months ago, looking at the vacant spot where she was sitting.

Today I was walking around all afternoon, getting IOIs left and right, yet too paralyzed by approach anxiety to capitalize on them (too much reliance on Tinder - I can say definitively that this shit has a corrosive effect on cold approach mentality... I'm going back into 100% daygame from this week.)

After reading this post, I went out and approached a cute girl on the bench outside. She seemed nervous, and eventually her boyfriend came and took her away.

Then I approached another girl who walked past, she hooked. Half Japanese Chinese. Conservatively dressed but very responsive to my arousal spikes. After some teasing, I suggested drinks tonight, she said okay, I grabbed her Instagram, but later realized that she hadn't accepted my follow request. I figured she must have had a change of heart.

Got an apologetic text from her later, saying her phone had died, and she had gone back to look for me but I was gone. Unfortunately I'd already left town by then, so I likely won't get to turn this into an LR, but this really hammered home the point you made.

Always take the shot, even if the odds seem like 1%!

Stratton.

 

[Atatürk]

Struggled with severe approach anxiety today.

Found myself literally paralyzed to approach even one girl.

Although I did lay a girl not even two weeks ago.

That said, I threw myself in the water and started hitting on girls at the mall despite almost succumbing to a panic attack, especially before the first approach.

Well, turns out, girls aren't that scary after all (who would have thought?)

More importantly, as I walked back home with a satisfied smile and 3 phone numbers out of 4 approaches, this simple truth occured once again:

No action = 0% chance of anything happening.

Approach one girl or heck, just even smiling at one = A non-zero chance at something magical happening.

When all else fails in the face of approach anxiety, at least knowing that doing something, anything, still puts you at a non-zero probability.

There's something incredibly soothing at the idea of this irrefutable fact. It lays the possiblity in its rawest form.

Non-zero is infinitely larger than zero.

That's gotta count for something.

1 in 200.