How To Build Social Momentum
Once you get going, it’s a lot easier to keep going.
This is true for behavior as well as physical momentum, but for completely different reasons.
With physical momentum, you’re relying on Newton’s Second Law (bodies in motion tend to stay in motion). Once you get something going, all you need to do is put in enough energy in the system to overcome the natural resistance, like friction, and you’re good.
If you reduce friction, you can coast for quite a while.
Similarly, when you’re doing some kind of behavior, it’s much, much easier to keep going, than it is to get going.
Especially if you’re doing something that involves uncertainty.
But unlike pure physics, the longer you’re going, the easier it gets.
Why?
Because one of the biggest anxieties when interacting with others is you never know what’s going to happen. Usually, when you do something the first time, (like ride a motorcycle or use a pogo stick) it’s kind of shaky the first couple of times. But once you get used to it, you can pretty much do it without thinking.
But talking to people isn’t like that. Every single time is different.
So the more you talk to people, the easier it gets for a couple of reasons. One is you’re have more experience with a wide diversity of people. For this reason, it’s crucial to talk to as many different people as you can.
If you’re trying to build up your confidence in talking to a girl of a specific type, talking to regular people will help. It will build in your deep understanding that no matter WHO you talk to, most people have a LOT in common. So when you do see that girl, you’ll see her more a human than an imaginary perfect angel.
The second reason it will keep getting easier, is you’ll build up your experience of handling uncertainty.
Sure, it’s never going to be completely comfortable doing things where you don’t know what’s going to happen.
But the more you can prove to yourself that you can handle any conversation with anybody, no matter what happens, the fact that you DON’T know what’s going to happen will bother you less and less.
So if you want to get better at talking to gorgeous girls, talk to people. All people. Everywhere. Start slow and work your way up.
Anytime you see an opportunity, exchange a few words, and see what happens.
It will make MANY THINGS in life much, much easier.
Not just girls.