tag: Data

I suppose I can call myself a daygamer now. Today I completed my 1000th set. As expected, there were no fireworks. Nor did the sets feel like the “1000 sets of hell”. Instead, I experienced a mild feeling of contentment and accomplishment: I set my mind to daygame, and I persisted for 562 days. Compared to Prague in April 2024 (300 sets), I feel the following changes: I still feel approach anxiety but manage to overcome it consistently. Girls no longer question my intent: they know I’m hitting on them. I’m only beginning to weave in actual Game into my sets (opposed to friendly chit-chat). Improved non-verbals: I’m standing close, touch them, and hold strong eye contact on green lights (when the girl gives good signals). Inner game issues: still too focused on impressing the girl (lack of entitlement). My goal is to reach 2000 sets by the end of 2025. ...

Today I’ve opened 17 girls, which beats my previous record of 14 approaches on August 3rd 2023. My last set was particularly memorable: it was one of these very rare sets where I felt I was actually doing Game, instead of polite chit-chat. I stopped a girl outside of the Centrum metro station on Patelnia in Warsaw as it was getting dark. By then I was nearly exhausted from a long day of solo daygame. Remarkably, as soon as I opened her, my tiredness was replaced by an animalistic alertness. There was no approach anxiety whatsoever and my stacking was effortless. Almost instinctively, I came up very close to her so that our feet were nearly touching. I can’t remember ever being this close in set. ...

Today I did my 500th approach. I remember walking Warschauer Straße hoping for a memorable set for this personal milestone. I was not dissapointed. She was a pretty Russian who turned out to be on her way to meet some friends. The set was a ray of hope in what was otherwise a very bleak session, as my vibe has been very flat that day. The set didn’t go anywhere because she had a boyfriend of 4 years, but as we parted ways she said “you have very beautiful eyes” as she grabbed my hand to shake it. It’s small moments like these, despite of losing the set, that fuel my determination to reach the next 500 approaches. ...

As I’m reaching 500 sets my metric of what constitutes a productive daygame session is starting to change. When I was a beginner (less than 200 approaches) my aim for each session was to open at least 10 girls within 2 hours, as recommended by Tom Torero. The good thing was that I was getting a lot of time in front of girls which helped me build a lot of reference experience quickly. I also got on plenty of dates which resulted in 3 SDLs. The downside was that the quality of approaches suffered. I often found myself in a set with a girl that I didn’t really like. As I was just drilling the model, or rather reducing my AA, this didn’t matter too much. ...