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'''Approach addiction''' is | '''Approach addiction''' is a name for the end-state of [[approach anxiety]] training: walking up has become the thing you want to do, not the thing you talk yourself out of. The a later pickup essay "How to Develop Approach Addiction (and Destroy Approach Anxiety Forever)" is a worked example plus a claim: volume plus survived reps rewires the fear. | ||
<ref name="wp">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist |title=Pickup artist |website=Wikipedia |access-date=18 September 2026}}</ref> | <ref name="wp">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist |title=Pickup artist |website=Wikipedia |access-date=18 September 2026}}</ref> | ||
The mechanism is already in beginner drills: shrink the ask ("hi" only), collect optional blowouts, then raise amplitude. Addiction is what it feels like when auto-rejection has lost the argument. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Latest revision as of 09:16, 18 September 2026
 Conversation (Commons). Volume without a life is still a stall.
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Approach addiction is a name for the end-state of approach anxiety training: walking up has become the thing you want to do, not the thing you talk yourself out of. The a later pickup essay "How to Develop Approach Addiction (and Destroy Approach Anxiety Forever)" is a worked example plus a claim: volume plus survived reps rewires the fear. [1] The mechanism is already in beginner drills: shrink the ask ("hi" only), collect optional blowouts, then raise amplitude. Addiction is what it feels like when auto-rejection has lost the argument.
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References
- ↑ Pickup artist. Wikipedia. Retrieved 18 September 2026.