The Run Game blog
Practical writing on meeting people in real life: approaching, conversation, handling rejection, and an honest look at pickup and its history.
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Start here
- Cold approach for beginners: your first week
- How to end a conversation well, and leave a good impression
- How to shoot your shot in person
- How to approach a girl you like without being creepy
- Openers that work, and why the line matters less than you think
- How to tell if she's into the conversation, and when to leave
- How to start a conversation with a stranger
Where to meet
- How to meet people in a new city
- How to meet people through hobbies and classes
- How to talk to a girl at the gym without being creepy
- How to talk to girls in college: class, parties, campus
- How to meet someone at a run club
- How to cold approach during the day (day game guide)
- Coffee shops, gyms, bookstores: situational openers and timing
- Meeting people while traveling
- Where to meet girls without dating apps: best places in person
Nights out
- How to dance at a club without feeling awkward
- How to talk to someone at a wedding
- How to meet people at a bar when you don't drink
- Night game: a step-by-step plan for bars and clubs
- How to approach a group: a step-by-step routine
- How to approach someone at a party
- Approaching at concerts and festivals
- How to approach in a club
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Keeping it going
- How to not be awkward talking to girls
- How to tell if a conversation is going well
- What to talk about with a girl: topics that work
- How to keep a conversation going with a girl after "hi"
- Conversation threading: never run out of things to say
- Playful teasing and banter that lands
- How to be funnier in conversation
- How to tell a good story in conversation
Reading signals
- Is she being friendly or flirting? How to tell
- Signs she wants you to come talk to her
- Signs she's not interested, and how to leave gracefully
- Green flags in a girl, and green flags that she likes you
- Signs she likes you vs just being nice (am I cooked?)
- How to tell if someone is interested in you: a signs checklist
Texting
- Double texting: when it's fine and when to stop
- How to start a conversation with a girl over text
- What to text after a first date (and when to send it)
- Dry texter or not interested? How to tell
- Talking stage questions to ask a girl
- How to text a girl without being boring
- Matches but no dates: getting from the app to a meetup
- What to text a girl after getting her number: exact texts
Asking her out
- How to ask out a girl you just met
- Your date cancelled last minute: what to do
- "We should hang out sometime": friendly or interested?
- How to ask a coworker out without making work awkward
- She says she's busy: should you ask again?
- How to ask a girl out: in person, over text, and for coffee
- Instant dates: turning a conversation into a date right now
First dates
- Cheap first date ideas that don't feel cheap
- Coffee date tips: how to make 45 minutes count
- First date mistakes guys make, and what to do instead
- First date questions that lead somewhere
- How to end a first date, and set up the second
- First kiss: how to know when, and how to go for it
- Micro-dates: 20-minute first dates that work
- First date ideas that make a second date more likely
- Second date ideas
Relationships
- How often to text someone you're dating
- How to ask a girl to be your girlfriend
- Jealousy early in dating: what to do with it
- Meeting her friends for the first time
- Signs she wants a relationship, not just something casual
- The first month of dating someone: what to expect
- Talking stage vs situationship: how to ask where it's going
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Confidence
- First date nerves: how to calm down before and during
- How to stop needing approval from someone you like
- Social anxiety or shyness? How to tell them apart
- Never had a girlfriend at 20 or 25: is it a red flag?
- Why you get nervous around a girl you like, and how to stop
- Rizz for shy guys: a practice plan for introverts
- How to be confident with girls (and with new people)
- How to approach when you're shy
Rejection
- Dating burnout for guys: when to take a break and how to restart
- Fear of rejection: where it comes from and how to shrink it
- How to get over a girl who didn't like you back
- How to stop taking rejection personally
- After she says no: how to act the next time you see her
- How to get over rejection from a girl (without crashing out)
- How to handle rejection when you approach: a 4-step routine
- Rejection therapy: a 30-day plan to get comfortable hearing no
Plans and challenges
- A weekend plan to meet new people
- Dating goals you can control (and a sample month)
- How to get a girlfriend in 2026: a realistic plan
- Glow up for guys: a 30-day plan that ends in real dates
- The 100 approaches challenge: a 10-week plan
- How to track cold approaches: what to log and how to read it
- A 30-minute warm-up routine before your first approach
- Going out alone vs with a wingman: how to run each
- A 30-day plan to beat approach anxiety
Looks and style
- How to be more attractive as a guy: what changes and what doesn't
- How to dress better as a guy on a budget
- How to pick a haircut for your face shape
- How to wear cologne without overdoing it
- Skincare for guys: a simple routine
- What to wear on a first date (for guys)
- Dating as a shorter guy: what actually matters
- Getting mogged: what it means and what you can change
- What to wear when you go out
- A grooming checklist before you go out
- Fitness and confidence: what actually changes
Social life
- How to be more social when you're used to staying in
- How to build a friend group from scratch
- How to find a wingman (even if your friends won't go out)
- How to host a small hangout (and why it helps your dating life)
- How to keep friendships going as an adult
- How to make friends as an adult guy
- Loneliness in your 20s: what actually helps
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Ideas
- Push-pull: what it is and what to do instead
- Social proof in dating: what it is and what's real
- Monk mode and dating: when it helps and when it's hiding
- Inner game vs outer game: how to find which one to fix
- Negging: what it is, where it came from, and what coaches teach now
- What frame means in pickup and how to hold a steady one
- Sticking points: find the one stage where you stall
- Outcome independence explained
- Abundance mindset in dating
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The originals
- Famous pickup artists: who they are and what they taught
- Ross Jeffries and Speed Seduction
- Mystery and the Mystery Method
- Neil Strauss and The Game: the book that took pickup mainstream
- Real Social Dynamics and the rise of the pickup bootcamp
- Julien Blanc and the 2014 visa bans
- David DeAngelo and Double Your Dating
- Owen Cook (Tyler Durden): RSD's best-known coach
- Love Systems and Nick Savoy
- Roosh V: the Bang books and his later turn
- Richard La Ruina and The Natural
- Zan Perrion and The Alabaster Girl
- Tom Torero and the rise of daygame
Coaches today
- Esther Perel on desire and long relationships
- Hamza Ahmed and self-improvement for young men
- Logan Ury and How to Not Die Alone
- Marni Kinrys and The Wing Girl Method
- Mark Manson's Models and the honest approach
- Nick Kho (Papa) and the business side of pickup
- Corey Wayne and How to Be a 3% Man
- Todd Valentine and Todd V Dating
- Charisma on Command: social skills from YouTube
- Kezia Noble: a woman coaching men
- Hayley Quinn's dating advice
- Simple Pickup: from prank videos to a dating company
- Matthew Hussey and what women are told about dating
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