{"id":298,"date":"2010-01-12T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-01-12T07:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T15:00:45","slug":"q-a-with-carlos-what-you-are-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/2010\/01\/q-a-with-carlos-what-you-are-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Q &#038; A with Carlos: What You Are Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read your Dating Black Book, and it&#8217;s been incredibly helpful. However, I came to a part where it says that there is no cure for asking girls out.\u00ca<\/p>\n<p>You just have to &#8216;do it&#8217;.\u00ca<\/p>\n<p>Well, the problem is that I don&#8217;t have the courage to &#8216;do it&#8217;.\u00ca<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Well, the slogan &#8220;Just do it&#8221; is a little simplistic, I&#8217;ll agree. But once you understand what is really holding you back, the &#8220;just do it&#8221; advice is more helpful than you might assume.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start by establishing right now what it is that stops you from acting on your desire:<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT YOU ARE THINKING.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s because of these two reasons:<\/p>\n<p>1) Imagining horrible consequences that <strong>DO NOT EXIST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2) Not planning and preparing so that you can feel confident in that situation and act anyway<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing different about a man that walks up to a woman and talks to her than the man that doesn&#8217;t &#8211; other than what he is <strong>THINKING <\/strong>beforehand. There is no special &#8220;talk to women&#8221; gene, or any gift he has that another cannot develop. Arguing to the contrary is a major cop out that will kill your love life.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the sake of understanding this, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on in the brain of the guy who <strong>CAN&#8217;T<\/strong> (or won&#8217;t) find the courage to approach a woman:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Women are scary. They are somehow different, like sacred beings. I have to treat them as if they are better than men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; My value as a man is at stake here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;m not secure enough in my own value to believe that I have enough to offer a woman. After all, why would she want to talk to<strong> ME<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If she rejects me, I&#8217;ll be in incredible pain.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s what the guy is thinking that<strong> DOES<\/strong> approach women and talk to them:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;m valuable, and she needs to meet me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;m not scared because there&#8217;s <strong>NO<\/strong> reason to be. She&#8217;s not better than me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What&#8217;s the worst thing that can happen? She&#8217;s not interested? Big deal, there&#8217;s more fish in the sea. And if I don&#8217;t try to meet her, she will <strong>NEVER<\/strong> be interested. I lose both ways if I don&#8217;t act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; There&#8217;s no way I can let a gal like that get away without experiencing the joy of having someone like me in her life. She&#8217;d never forgive me if she found out I didn&#8217;t give her that chance.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t be intimidated by a woman unless you believe that her opinion about you is somehow <strong>MORE<\/strong> important or valuable about you than your own.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: Don&#8217;t place your validation in <strong>HER<\/strong> hands. She isn&#8217;t qualified for that job. Only <strong>YOU<\/strong> are.<\/p>\n<p>What are YOU thinking when you see a woman you want to talk to?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re taking the time to think about <strong>ANYTHING <\/strong>(i.e., you&#8217;re not just walking up to her) <strong>YOU ARE THINKING TOO MUCH!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give your mind the chance to talk you out of it. Remember, your inner voice of insecurity is just waiting for you to dwell a little too long so it can talk you out of doing anything and staying &#8220;comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is why you act right away. If you don&#8217;t already know what you&#8217;re going to do when you see a woman you&#8217;re interested in, you haven&#8217;t prepared enough. And there&#8217;s nothing new you&#8217;re going to figure out while you&#8217;re sitting there spinning on your bar stool trying to work up your courage. (Except maybe how to talk yourself out of going over to her!)<\/p>\n<p>Take a few minutes right now to come up with a few opening topics or questions. Try something like, &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m looking for a woman&#8217;s opinion on something. My friend is trying to meet his next girlfriend. Where do you think he should go?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s simple, cute, and almost guarantees a short chat with her.<\/p>\n<p>Sit down for a few minutes right now. Let me say that again &#8211; <strong>RIGHT NOW<\/strong>.\u00a0 Prepare out a couple introductions like that. Memorize them. Then you need never worry about what you&#8217;re going to do <strong>EVER AGAIN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason you&#8217;re &#8220;working up courage&#8221; is because you&#8217;ve got no plan for what you&#8217;re going to do. If you did, you could &#8230; uh&#8230; well, <strong>JUST DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can promise you this:<\/p>\n<p>She won&#8217;t dump her drink in your face.<\/p>\n<p>She won&#8217;t slap you.<\/p>\n<p>She won&#8217;t tell all her friends about you and laugh hysterically.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, 95 times out of a hundred, she&#8217;ll <strong>AT LEAST<\/strong> be flattered and impressed that you had the guts to come talk to her.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to look at the other guys out there who can just walk up and talk to women with no effort as somehow &#8220;gifted.&#8221; They seem like they have a mystical ability that the ordinary guy doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not magic, or a special power. Believe it or not, they&#8217;re still uncomfortable with rejection. All they&#8217;re doing is ignoring those discouraging thoughts and taking the risk.<\/p>\n<p>No risk, no reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read your Dating Black Book, and it&#8217;s been incredibly helpful. However, I came to a part where it says that there is no cure for asking girls out.\u00ca<\/p>\n<p>You just have to &#8216;do it&#8217;.\u00ca<\/p>\n<p>Well, the problem is that I don&#8217;t have the courage to &#8216;do it&#8217;.\u00ca<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47],"tags":[11,7],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-silver-members","tag-article","tag-silver-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlosxuma.com\/dating-seduction-techniques\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}