I was at the park doing slack line shirtless sweating and doing a work out. Normally, I do this all the time and people talk to me constantly, the people range from older to younger to kids every age range. So I'm talking to a lot of people.  Today a girl asked me for my number lol now I already have a girlfriend so it's not going to go anywhere. Basically in reality you want to do everything you can to avoid cold approach and just set yourself up to have good odds. Cold approach is like playing chess on equal footing, but the problem is why in the world would you want to play fair? If you're in a fight with someone to the death, are you going to not use a gun because your opponent is using a knife? Of course not just do what you need to do to win.  I get cold approach is useful for self-development, but strategically it's stupid. Never play fair. Instead, go to public places do some interesting shit and talk to a bunch of people, things will work out. You'll enter into social groups and different social activities, you'll build a social network this way. The point I'm making is I'm not trying at all, I do whatever I want to do and people are drawn to me. If you guys are doing 5,000 cold approaches with no results, holly shit STOP. Be strategic instead