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1. Trailer How to talk to ANYONE with 0 Fear: Countless times I've been in the situation where I
wanted to talk to somebody, but I just I just couldn't
cooperate myself to do it, whether it be a cute
girl I saw walking past me at the train
station or something as simple as just striking up a conversation with the cashier
at the local supermarket. I've always wanted to
talk to more people. A lot of the time. It was just difficult to
bring myself to do it. I'm glad to say after months
of intentional practice, I've pretty much
eliminated this fit basically 090% of the time. I'll see someone and if I
wanted to talk to them, I will and has really
helped me with my YouTube channel and
just intervene people. I feel like intervene without
any fear of them saying no, without any fear of what
anyone else thinks about me. It's been tough. But I'm so glad I
made the effort to really improve the
athlete's of my life. If that suddenly there you also want to improve
in your life, then it's quite course is three.
2. What is stopping you from approaching: Now the first thing
we have to understand is what is the reason
you're not approaching? What's stopping you inside? Well, 90% of the time, it's because of
these two reasons. Number one, the person you
approach may think you're a weirdo and that's gonna make you feel worse
about yourself. Could maybe hit
your self-esteem. And number 2, the
people around you who see you go up to this person may think
you're a waiter. Thus basically, that's
as bad as it gets. Every doesn't get
worse than that. If it's in a public space, you're never going to see
any of these people again. So essentially, you don't
really have much to lose your mind telling you not to do it because of the
potential embarrassment. But the thing is, even if it is embarrassing, you don't see any of
those people again. So there's nothing
really to lose. And also let's think about the upside potential because
this is a two-way street. This is a risk to reward, okay? That risk is,
people think you're a weirdo and it
kinda stops there. The reward is, you may have
just made a new friend. You may have just
found someone you're interested in and they like
you back and then you go, you've got something that
potentially you never know. But if you don't try, you're going to have
0% success rate. So the first thing
you have to really ingrain yourself is that, and there's no real
downside to this. The only way is up. Honestly, the only way is up. I went I rarely side to
cement that in my head. That hold on. Look, I'm never going to see
any of these people again, this fear that I have of approaching insight
is not justified. It's not just a fight at all if that's the reason
you're not doing it, because our words,
it's possible to think about me or they're
going to think I'm a weirdo, like, does it really matter? I think that it doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Chances are it doesn't. So the first thing
that I did to help me get over this fear is
to look at it logically, because logically it
doesn't make any sense not to approach 99% of the time. There's always upside as always upside with literally
no downside. Okay? And if you are somebody
who does approach, you've set yourself apart
from so many people with, so many people lack the confidence to do
because they're so, they're so paralyzed by
that insignificant fit. Because that fit is insignificant when you
look at it logically. So the first thing you
have to do some math in your head that the
worst-case scenario isn't that bad at all. It really isn't that bad. Once you do that, it's a lot easier to
look at the situation. That's what you have to do. Some men in your head, that the worst-case scenario
isn't that bad at all.
3. How to actually start approaching: Now that we realized that our fair of approaching
isn't justified, how do we actually
start approaching? Or think of it like this, if you play a video game, right? Do you go from level one to
level 100, just like that? No, you do not. We're not going to stop full-blown up
conversations straight away because that does
quite a big jump. If you've never done an
LED light as before, we're going to start small. And the way that I started
was every day for a week, I made the conscious effort that if I saw somebody
walking past me, I would just say
hello or I would just say good afternoon or
good morning wherever. Your eye, son, Saxton, but just a little greeting, whatever it is for you, whatever people use
around your area, right. As you go by, you just say that and you give a
little nod, right? No big deal, okay. And you're on your way. That is how you build
up a tolerance. And you do that with
complete changes, you don't know, right? Random person just do it right. Then open a by EPA, relaxed. You're not going
to get attacked. All right. So you've got to do
and you won't pass. There you go. That's
going to build up your tolerance slowly, okay? Because you can't rush this. This does take time to build up. Like it wasn't an
overnight thing for me. You slowly build it up. So if that's still
tough for you, I would suggest GA side, right? Just walk, just walk
around your area. You're going to see here, but they're going to be
people around. All right? Okay. As long as you're
living under a rock, they're going to be
he pulled around. So literally walk past. You see somebody
make icon sides. Hello, often in whatever is, whatever time of day, science simple and
just walk past, it does challenging for you. You just have to grit your
teeth and just do it. You have to just sometimes you have to just make that leap. There's no there's no
like easy way to do it. I'm trying to make it as
progressive as possible. So we go from one step to
another to another to another. But sometimes with
these gaps you have it as grit your
teeth and just do it. Okay. I'm just going to Yom
is going to make the jump. I'm just going to
say hello, right? And you have to just do it. There's no other way
to say it, okay? Thus what you're gonna
have to do, okay? There's another
shortcut to this. I'm trying to make it as
progressive as I can. Okay. So thus what you do,
you just say hello. You just say good morning to the random person and
you're on your way. Do that for a week, twice a day. Do that EV-DO there
for one week, do that twice a day, every single day, and
that will become easy. That'll become second nature. You won't even think
about it afterwards. You'll just be, it'll just
be kind of how you are. You'll be quite jolly
to be around, you know, random person who just say
hello or new way that. So you got D, start small and we're going to
build you up to wake. You can start having
conversations, complete strangers. But first, do that.
4. Holding a conversation with a complete stranger: I'm going to assume you've
done the greetings, You've got up system strangers
and you just create them. Now we want to take it to the next level where you want to hold an actual conversation
with these changes. How do we go about doing that? Well, you have two
main scenarios. Scenario 1 is when it's
situationally appropriate. So for example, you're
in a supermarket, your food's getting scanned
by one of the work is, and you just start
talking to the cache, starts talking to the
worker, scanning your food. That's quite a natural
environment and just start talking because your client is standing there waiting, right? You can say something as
simple as housework, right? They may reply with
a one word answer. They may just say,
good, for example, and you may be like, Oh, how do I go from there? Water, people just give
me a one word answer. I'm telling you is a
bit of trial and error. You have to just give
it a go sometimes and see what happens
and what's going to allow you to do that is less
than one where you really picture that the
worst-case scenario really isn't that bad. Once that's ingrained
in your head. Making jumps, actually ask an approach and talk to people
you don't know, it's going to be million
times easier, trust me. Okay. So situationally,
this cache, right? Housework, very simple question. That could be a
conversation star, okay? And don't worry about too much about what they're
going to say next, just to go from there, you know, another thing,
another way to start a conversation is to give
a genuine compliment, give a genuine
direct compliment. And I guarantee you 99% of the
time that's going to work. They're going to, they're
going to like you for that. Okay. They're going to appreciate
it most of the time, because how often is it that a complete stranger comes up to you and gives
you a direct common? It doesn't happen often. Read it. Can you tell me
if that's happened to you? Because our evidence ever
happened to me in my life. I've done a lot of times now, but for me that's
never happened. So if someone came
to me and did that, I mean, I'd be pretty
appreciative of it. My period has put
periods of a nice shoes, you know, less than one. Remember, worst-case
scenario is not bad. Give a direct compliment. Maybe you see someone
at the train, okay, Now this is scenario
two now because now it's no longer a
situation where you have to make the direct
efforts go approach them. So maybe you're waiting
for the train and you see, you see this guy and he's
got a really nice hoodie. You really like you sweetie, you like as fashion sense, maybe you want to know
where he got it from. How do you go from there? You see most people weren't even made the effort
to go up to them. But what you gotta do is
basically you see that person give yourself a countdown
from five seconds, 54321. Go go straight through them and direct line. Approach them. If they got the headphones on, don't worry, man, just
tap them on the shoulder. There'll be a bit confused. I'll be able to know who
the hell is this guy, right TO YOU remember
scenario, sorry. Remember less than one, the worst-case scenario
really isn't that bad. So you got to them. Excuse me. So it's body you may already likelihood they also wonder
where you got it from. And they're probably
going to bust our fat smile afterwards, right? Because honestly guys
giving a direct compliment will work 99% at a time. Now you may still be thinking, but how do I, how do I make
the leap and go up to them? The thing is, that's not quite something that
can be directly taught. That's kinda of a thing that
you have to just kind of, you gotta hide herself
up and be like, Okay, I'm just going to go
and talk to them and you have to just you've
got to face your fear. You essentially have
that his facial fits. One of those moments
where you just have to grit your teeth and be like
I'm just going to do it. That's really what it is. Lot of time and
having that mindset, knowing that I'm going
to have to just grit my teeth and just go through with it has really helped
me progress fast in this. In a year and a half ago, I probably couldn't talk
to anyone randomly. And now I'll happily find a random stranger on the
street and are interviewed. And for a YouTube video,
some random person that I've met in my life, you know, honestly it's just conscious
intentional practices. So I'd set the goal of okay. Today, I'm going to I'm going to have a conversation
with two random people. And if I didn't
accomplish that goal, I would really kick
myself for it. These little goals
that you've set for yourself and you
keep achieving them, that's going to really help you. So initially, I told you guys, start with degree things. We're setting the bar fairly attainable because I'm sure every one of you
guys can go do that. Okay. Now we'll get an elevated a little bit
so that the next week, try have one situation
of conversation. Every day you go to supermarket. Very quick exchange of
words with the cashier. It could be a conversation that lasts less than 20 seconds. You end it with Have a
nice day on your way. Thus it okay? Once that becomes a bit easier, then if you're out and about and you see
something that you like, maybe someone's got a
really nice hoodie, as I said earlier, each sculpted them and be like, Excuse me, I thought your
hoodie was really nice. It was running where
you got it from. There you go. Maybe you guys ready, get along. You exchange Instagram's now you've just made a new friend. You know, something so simple can bring such a
good reward your life, such a big return on your time. And the risk was they think you're a waiter
and that is it. I hope this course
has helped you. In essence, you have
to just rarely, sometimes just grit your
teeth and just go for it. Okay. So what I want you to do this
week, as I said earlier, was this week to have
situational conversation a week, but tries to have
a one situation or conversation every single
day for the next week. And if in the moment
you like our show, either you're panicking in the moment when you're
about to go do it, just remember Counter
5 and then go. Okay, it's going
to be difficult. You probably won't talk to every single person
that you want to. Okay. I still don't sometimes. Okay. I still don't
even after practicing, but literally you have to just
keep plugging away at it. And it will get easier. I promise you, you
will get easier. So go do that. Take the action today. You could go into it today. You could go technically turn this video off right
now and then go do it. Okay? It's in your power. It's in your power to change. Okay? Remember the first lesson, the worst-case scenario
is not bad at all, and they're so much that you can gain out of this experience. So go do it. You got nothing to lose.
5. Closing notes: If you've made it this
far, honestly well done, divides out most people
on this course would have got to this stage if you
honestly gone and done looping. So I told you to do it on the greetings for a
week, twice a day. You've had a situation of conversation every single
day for seven days. Honestly. Well done, guys, great. And you can probably
notice now that is easy having conversations. Now how do we take it? One more stage? Well, as I've said
in the beginning, It's all about levels. It's all about tolerance, okay? You will tolerate is getting higher and higher and higher. The amount of
awkwardness that you can take is getting
higher and higher. When it's a bit awkward,
it doesn't really faze you anymore, right? That's what we're
building up to that. So we're trying to get C where awkward situations don't
even faze you anymore. Yeah, he doesn't. You know, you don't have
fast fast by honestly. So I would say if
you're at this point, you're probably getting
a lot better at this. Now, you hire works is
literally rinse and repeat. The way that you get
better at this is you made the situation harder and
harder and harder and harder, and you keep progressing and
progressing and progressing. So, easiest thing you could do, simple grading, okay, what's
above that situation? Conversation may be
very quick exchange of words with a cashier
at the supermarket, as we said, won't
be a bit harder, maybe complimenting
someone in the gym, right? You're already like
that Jim gay or realized their trainers
or something like that. Right? That's next. Probably after that
would be approaching a group of people that die
is significantly harder. I've done that quite
a few times as well. Thus bit tricky as well. I'm telling you, once
you're at this stage, now, you understand
how to get better. You understand now how you get better at approaching
people, okay? Now it's just rinse and repeat. You have the disbelieve and grit your teeth and
just go for it. Now, when the situation, when a difficult situation
presents itself and you feel like you used to when it was something as simple
as just saying hello, that's when you
know, you have to go into because that's
where you grow, that's where you really push yourself and get
to that next level. When you, I want to tell
you this guy's right. When you feel those nerves about approaching someone
in the moment, okay. And you want to do it, but
it just feels like you can't remember that is the situation that's going to make you grow. Because you grow when you're
out your comfort zone, okay, So when you feel that, remember that if you do this, that's going to
only elevate you. That's going to push
you further out of your comfort zone
and you're going to improve as the person. So remember that when
you feel those nerves, remember that I would say now or you got to focus on
is just rinse and repeat. If you see a situation,
just go for it. Okay? If you don't do it,
don't kick yourself, pick yourself back up
and go for the next one. And eventually it's going
to become second nature. And when you see somebody
that you want to talk to, you just go into it. Remember, the risk
is so minimal, they'll think you're a weirdo. That's it. That's the worst thing
that can happen. The reward, the reward
that you can gain. Maybe you just made
a lifelong friend. You never know unless you try. I hope you guys have found
this course helpful. Check out my other courses
if you've enjoyed this one, and I'll see you guys
in the next one. Take care.