Social gatherings can be enough to inspire worry or self-consciousness for a lot of guys, even if the party is small or the company sophisticated. Parties are, for the most part, a blend of the familiar and the unknown.

They provide an excellent forum for you to practice casually engaging with the opposite sex in a relatively low-risk way, and offer less pressure than bars or clubs. Chances are, if you’re reading this, it’s because you’ve decided that the time has come to shed your shyness and step into the arena of life.

In this article, I’ll offer a few basic rules of thumb and some advice on how you can more easily approach girls at parties.

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1. How to Beat Approach Anxiety

First, stop looking for the world’s greatest opener, this isn’t an award show. Be in the moment, be present, be relevant and it will feel completely natural. All that anxiety and tense will fade away once you stop stressing over what to say.

Many shy men suffer from approach anxiety, in fact, this is where the problem stems from. You’ll be shocked once you put your foot forward and start taking risks. Remember gentlemen, it’s all a numbers game for the most part. You will get rejected by every woman you don’t go after. Right from the start you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

See, what men often don’t see is that this is a self-perpetuating cycle. Approach anxiety stems from a lack of contact or interaction with women. Guys who experience this often feel they can’t talk to girls because they don’t know what to say.

They seem to feel they need to follow some sort of “cool” script or pick up lines. The truth is, gentlemen, there is no script. More than that, a woman will always pick up on something that feels false or rehearsed, and she won’t respond positively to it.