Approaching Women Mistakes: The simple act of walking up to someone and asking them out is endlessly daunting. Fraught with potential missteps, what should be human interaction 101 often becomes an uncertain minefield where the wrong line and even little tics of body language can lead to disaster. So much so, in fact, that a single man called Tom’s video of approaching numerous women “offline” – aka in the street – to ask them out has made the internet rounds this week and the moral of the story seems to be: trying to ask women out offline sucks. Don’t do it.

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Undoubtedly, there’s plenty to get wrong. So, AM’s female staffers are going to let you in on a few key pieces of information that will help (they’ve promised, and everything) from choosing your location (we’d say a bar would’ve given Tom a better success rate) to letting up on the pick-up lines.

10. Starting Out On The Defensive

Ironically, the mistake a lot of men make when it comes to approaching women is simply fearing the worst. Unless she’s got the personality ofDaenerys Targaryen’s dragons, it’s likely you won’t be too badly mauled by anything that’s about to happen.

But once you start believing the worst outcome, you’ll immediately be on the backfoot, trying to think of solutions to problems that haven’t even arisen. The last thing you want to do is see any woman as a ‘challenge’ or as though you need to learn any ‘tricks‘ to persuade her to talk to you.

Forget what you’ve heard, approaching a woman is not about game-playing. The dating guru has died a long, painful death. Women (fun, nice women that you’d actually enjoy spending time with) will always rather get to know a friendly guy who means what he says than someone who’s trying to play games.

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