starting cursing and repeating the phrase "I’m going to fuck youup." My friends arrived from the other side of the parking lot andtried to calm her down, but she wanted to fight me and nothing wasgoing to change her mind. Now I’m not sure why I didn’t movefarther away from her, especially when she started cocking her neckback and forth, but next thing I remember was a fist coming right atmy face. I leaned back but she clocked me in my left eye. My friendsgrabbed her and I walked away with my hand on my face, shocked andembarrassed. I couldn’t believe I got punched in the face by agirl.

On the ride home there was lots oflaughter at my expense as I checked the passenger seat mirror forsigns of a black eye. I went to sleep and woke up a humbled man. Thenext time I went out I couldn’t do a single approach. I was scaredI’d say the wrong thing again and incite female rage. But then Ithought about it. This rare and extreme event is the worst thing thatcan happen to me and only my ego was injured. The meaning of whathappened can be whatever I make it out to be, positive or negative,so I might as well go positive. I can let this one girl change mylife, ending my journey to be a player right then and there in thatparking lot, or I can barrel through this failure to reach the nextsuccess, which I’m one gigantic step closer to achieving. Weeksafter this incident, I became an approach machine. I was doing itwithout hesitation or fear. If the worst that can happen fromapproaching a woman is an embarrassing but funny story, then maybegetting punched in the face isn’t so bad. Now you don’t have toget punched in the face to be successful with approaching, but youmust have the belief that everything happens for the sole reason toimprove your game. The last thing you want to do is let a rareincident affect your behavior. Scientists call these extremeresponses the "outliers," and they do nothing to contribute tothe statistical significance of your hypothesis. That is, they don’t