Originally Posted by CandleInTheDark

Try this...can you walk down the street and look people in the eye without being the first to break contact?

Your issue is confidence (duh), not your clothes, height, looks, lack of hair in manly places, or how many women you are actually surrounded by. You got rejected once and ran back to your little shell. If that is going to be your attitude and response to rejection, you might as well accept your fate right now. If you were the most outgoing and attractive man trying to pick-up women, you would still face rejection 90% of the time. Of that 10% you score a number from, 90% will be fakes. If you can handle the fact that 99% of the women you try to pursue aren't buying your shit, you are out of the game.

You have to be unafraid to throw yourself to the wolves. You have to put yourself in the position to talk to strange women. You have to face rejection time and again. Otherwise you will never realize that rejection is all bark, no bite.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

-Michael Jordan