
Are you such a success you now find yourself hesitant to
approach? If you want to meet more women, you’ll have to shed that ‘Big
Deal’ image.
Something happens to a lot of men once they reach a certain point
with girls.
They realize they are, without question, pretty good.
When you hit this point, you look back and notice you’ve shagged a
lot of girls. You’ve picked up girls in crazy situations and somehow
pulled it off. You’ve had beautiful girlfriends who worshipped the
earth you stood on. Maybe you cultivated a bit of notoriety on forums or just among your circle
of friends as a guy skilled with babes.
And then you start to go out thinking you’re a big deal. “I’m a big
deal,” you say. “Women are supposed to like me.”
You start to get self-conscious about approaching. You get a new
flavor of approach anxiety. But it’s
weird; it’s different from that earlier flavor. Whereas your old
approach anxiety was a fear women might destroy your self-esteem by
rejecting you, now it’s something else. Now you fear a woman may
shatter your identity.
If you approach her, and she rejects you, can you really consider yourself Earth’s
Biggest Ladies Man? Probably not, right?
So better not to approach.
In a way, this anxiety is worse than the earlier one. At least with
the earlier one, you didn’t have much to lose. You sucked with girls,
and you had to fix it,
doggone it. With this new one though, you feel a need to preserve all
those memories of success you have. This identity of being great. And
when you don’t approach, you can just flood yourself with memories:
“I’m not going to talk to that girl. It’s not worth the risk. Hey,
remember that time I banged a girl who looked just like her? And how
awesome that was? That was great...”
Plenty of guys get stuck here. Most never fully
make it back.
Because once you’re a ‘Big Deal’ in your own head – a legend in your
own mind – it gets harder and harder to do anything that might disabuse
you of that notion.