Posts Tagged field test
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 6 Preview
November 24, 2009I don’t have time for a full overview of Mission 6. But it’s about approach anxiety. This is definitely something I have. Sure I’ve beaten it in some situations, but certainly not all. Not most in fact.
Mission 5 (mostly) Complete!
November 24, 2009This mission was to improve my grooming and style. The first part was to choose one task from a list and implement it. I’m doing several.
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 4 Overview
November 9, 2009The field test for this mission involves talking to women. The mission is titled “Ask an Expert”. The task: Ask three women to recommend a cool local clothing store that carries menswear. When successful, write it down (I’m guessing I’ll be going there). Just to be clear, the full rules are that I need to ask this from at least three women, but I need at least one answer. So if the first three don’t know, I keep trying.
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.
Mission 2 Complete!
November 5, 2009It’s funny, I got quite different results. I don’t know if it was the deeper eye contact or simply different individuals.
