My experience cold approaching... what's yours?

I used to do cold approach in highschool and uni. I think I have approached over 100 girls. But out of all those I only got 1 date. It's a number's game. It's probably the 2nd most inefficient way to meet women (online dating is number 1 in my experience).

Warm approach at social events or social contexts (school, parties, speed dating events or any other even where the theme is to meet people) has a higher success rate but even then you have to be confident and smooth in your approach to get results. In these contexts, girls have their guard down but when you cold approach on the street or public transport the guard is all the way up, so it's harder.

I still do cold approach but it's just a way of boosting my confidence and self esteem and just practising my flirting skills. It's harder than warm approach so you learn more and faster and your confidence grows a lot faster too. I even suprise myself sometimes. I have approached a girl in a group with her friends several times. It felt scary until I actually did then I realised it was nothing. I have even asked out girls in front of their mothers. Still can't believe I pulled that shit off.

Today I'm still optimistic that something may materialise but it's never the goal for me. Sometimes, I talk to a girl and I realise she is boring or not my type so I don't even ask for her number coz there is no point. I don't aim to get a girls number just for the sake of it.

The mindset is: I find this girl attractive so I am gonna talk to her to see if she is interesting and matches my vibe. If she does I develop a strong connection with her, then I get her number. If she doesn't match and we have not have a connection, I walk away without her number. They have been times I got a girl's number without building connection and I text her and she just leaves me on delivered. But it wasn't really a suprise coz I knew deep down we didn't have a connection and I just wanted to make something out of nothing.

But anywho..this is my experience. What's yours?