When a guy has found a woman he is prepared to talk to, the first thought in his mind should be: My goal here is to make her smile. That’s it. Women are emotional beings. He should be in that space of feeling confident in who he is, and that he is giving her a great opportunity by coming up to speak to her. If she doesn’t like him, blows him off, or treats him harshly, it shouldn’t matter. Therefore, if you make her feel good by getting her to laugh, she will associate you with feeling good. We will get to more of this in the section on taking rejection personally, but the man should view it
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