Posts Tagged conversations
Mission 7 Field Test – Approaches 2, 3, and 4
December 14, 2009Once again, Mission 7 is to use an opener and approach. I did the first one last weekend. Here are the rest of the approaches that happened during my Wingwoman night out in Belltown with Maria The Date Coach (post coming soon). Mission 7 is now complete…I did it. 
Mission 7 Field Test – Approach 1 of 3
December 10, 2009Mission 7 is to approach 3 women or sets, and use an opener. Here’s the first that took place last weekend.
Mission 6 Overview, Field Test, and Summary
December 1, 2009Mission 6 is all about overcoming AA. Aproach anxiety. Before I get into the mission, my take on approach anxiety is that it is something that I will never not have. My goal is to find a way to manage it. As the author Neil Strauss says, “it’s less a fear of approaching than a fear of rejection”.
Mission 4 Complete!
November 18, 2009This was a good mission. It actually required talking to women. Overall, I think I both surpassed with flying colors but also bombed slightly. Thus, my grade…
Mission 4 Field Test Report and Party Time
November 16, 2009To re-cap, the field test for Mission 4 was to approach 3 women and ask for a menswear store recommendation. I had a tough time finding both time and targets for this during the work week. But over the weekend I had a chance to go to a fun house party.
Mission 3 Field Test – Phone Calls
November 8, 2009The field test for this mission is to call 3 people, at random, and ask them to recommend a movie. In the book, the author’s aim is for an exercise where we “only use our voice”. There is a long vocal training briefing in the book. The goal of all this is to learn to “take control of conversations in real life and direct them towards the outcome you want”. In other words, change the course of an interaction without making the other person uncomfortable.
