 Hi, this is Maryleigh Johnson with the 21 Convention. We're here with Damien Dica. He's our first speaker of the 2014 Convention. You talk about numbers in your dating and your approaches and how important it is for statistics. So once somebody is going to introduce a variable into, say, trying to approach a girl, how do they know that that's working? So what everyone needs is they need to have a conversion statistic. So that statistic might be something like number of girls I approach who let me keep talking to them for more than 10 seconds, for example. So if you're changing something, and before you made the change, maybe five girls out of 10 would let you keep talking. And you make the change in seven girls out of 10 that you keep talking, then that's a statistic that you want to know. That's a variable, sorry, that you want to stay with. So then it's important to write that down. Otherwise, how would you tell? Right? Yes, absolutely. You want to keep a track of what goes on. Because as you can imagine, it's not always five out of 10. You go out regularly. It'll be five one night, and then another night you're feeling really good, seven, another night you're tired, too. When should they calculate that? So if I have a variable that I've put into my routine, say, with an approach, and it doesn't work after one night, well, you probably shouldn't dump it after one night. Should they do the calculation after maybe a week or three weeks or four weeks? When's the best time to look at this variable and say, do I keep it, or do I get rid of it? I usually say try it 20 to 30 times, so 20 to 30 times, whatever variable it is, and you'll get it should have a good idea. If it's still vague then, it's probably better things you could try. OK. So this is a big one that I like to ask a lot of people, just because it's really important. If a guy sees a girl, and he knows I like this girl, I want to walk up to her, and I don't want it to go wrong. I really want it to go right. Please let this one go right. How do they accomplish that? How do they go forward with that by maybe not getting in their own way? That's a really tough one. But well, it's a tough one because for all of us, right, when we see a girl we like, our brains go, ha, ha, but we freak out, right? And everything shuts down. So really what you need to do is you need, if you've got experience behind you, is the best solution. There's nothing that you can do that will instantly stop your brain from freaking out and you getting in your own way. But one of the things that they work really, really well is if you're used to talking to girls, if you're used to approaching, if you're used to. By used to, I mean if you've been out three or four times before in the last month talking to girls, then approaching another girl is not going to be nearly as scary as if you never do it. And I know that's not the advice that guys listening want to hear. They want to hear a solution like, bam, I'll never be scared of women again. It doesn't work. I haven't seen anyone, I haven't met anyone that doesn't sometimes get scared and intimidated. And myself included, women can be intimidating, you know? And that's okay, you know, we're okay with that. But you know, someone like myself who's used to talking to girls, the reason why I don't flip out and get in my own ways, because I'm used to dealing with those feelings, I'm used to dealing with those emotions, that fear, you still got adrenaline, but it changes. It's like you're about to get on a roller coaster and it's exciting. As opposed to you're about to go to the dentist and get a tooth pulled, they're both fear, but they're very different feelings. And what they do to you is different. So if I come up and do a talk, I can have adrenaline, but that adrenaline makes me more creative and more expressive. As opposed to if I'm scared of it, that adrenaline makes me forget what I'm gonna say and fumble over my words. It's the same thing talking to a girl. So this is Damien Dica. What's the name of your speech that you're gonna be presenting at the 21 Convention? The speech is called, think like a CEO, a date like a rock star. Fantastic, it's great seeing you. Cheers, good to see you too. Bye. Bye guys. See ya.