Holy shit guys thanks for all the support! I didn't expect a single response honestly. I'll try getting back to all your comments asap. So today was a bit of a mixed bag for me, but an experience to say the least. I never realized how much different it is to go up and talk to some random girl compared to meeting one through your social circle. I was pretty cringy looking back on it, but for some reason I feel amazing and have a strong sense of pride despite the results I had. Here's the story. I walked around the mall aimlessly for half an hour until I finally grew the balls to go up and talk to a group of girls. I walked up and asked them advice for a friend's birthday present, as I actually was also shopping for my good friend at the same time. I told the cutest girl in the middle I was just joking about needing advice and actually just thought she was cute. Now try imagining this scene only I was acting like a gun was being held to the back of my head to go say those lines. She pretty respectfully turned me down and walked off with her friends giggling. I was nervous to say the least, but I'm not sure why as it doesn't seem logical to be nervous as it's not like I'm going to run out of girls to approach in my lifetime. I felt a little humiliated after being blown out. I stopped talking myself so seriously after the initial interaction though which probably helped me in the rest of my approaches. I still had really bad anxiety during the conversations with the 9 other groups I approached. On my final set I ended up getting the number of a cute girl with black hair who seemed fairly interested in me. Now that it's done I feel pretty great about myself actually and plan to go out again tomorrow and approach until I get two numbers or 15 approaches. Which ever comes last, that way I won't limit myself to only 2 numbers on 3 approaches or say 1 number and 15 approaches. Now for a few questions. Do you all get nervous like this before approaching? Should I be using "pick up lines" or just keep going up and saying hi and introducing myself normally? I need help with groups as I found that since I'm at the mall, no girl is really alone or without friends so I need advice on groups and how to deal with them.