^^^Rejection always hurts. Sometimes less, sometimes more. The day you feel no pain, is the day you will begin to lose pleasure. Pleasure and Pain are wretchedly intertwined.
The key thing is just "a little bit of sting", not so much that you remember it within 15 mins and def. not the next day. This level of acclimatization takes time.
A good exercise is to purposefully bomb some interactions (esp when you are just having fun and clowning around). Say something ridiculous, mime a ridiculous face, shoulder tap a girl and then pretend like it wasnt you and make sure to have fun. Whatever you think might be funny and ridiculous, DO IT.
You'll be surprised what you can get away with. Obviously, dont do this all the time. But once in a while, its a good fun refresher on how little all of this matters.
The key thing is just "a little bit of sting", not so much that you remember it within 15 mins and def. not the next day. This level of acclimatization takes time.
A good exercise is to purposefully bomb some interactions (esp when you are just having fun and clowning around). Say something ridiculous, mime a ridiculous face, shoulder tap a girl and then pretend like it wasnt you and make sure to have fun. Whatever you think might be funny and ridiculous, DO IT.
You'll be surprised what you can get away with. Obviously, dont do this all the time. But once in a while, its a good fun refresher on how little all of this matters.
WIA- For most of men, our time being masters of our own fate, kings in our own castles is short. Even those of us in the game will eventually succumb to ease of servitude rather than deal with the malaise of solitude