What You Can Learn From Rob Green & His World Cup Mishap
Apologies now if you are not a fan of football (or soccer as the Americans call it), but there is no way I can go through the whole World Cup without any articles related to the world cup. It just has to be done.
Now if you didn’t see it, Rob Green let in an absolute sitter in during England’s opening World Cup match. I know a huge portion of Americans who do like football will love me talking about Rob Green and his moment of madness even if it doesn’t help them with women :-).
However after thinking about what happened I decided that instead of seeing it as a negative I would try and get some positive out of it. Not in terms of football cause to be honest there is no real way of looking at what happened in a positive light in terms of football itself, well unless you are American of course. But instead the mindset of Rob Green since it happened.
Let’s be honest, letting in as sitter in the World Cup must be one of the most demoralising experiences you could ever have. The weight of a nation to do well is being held firmly on your shoulders and you go and make a complete howler as Rob Green did.
Yet somehow he managed to keep his head held firmly in the air. He handled the whole situation with poise, professionalism and generally has not let what could be one of the worst moments in his football career effect him. A lesser man would probably be quite content with the manager letting another goalkeeper play the next match. However Rob Green is willing and ready to play should the manager make that call.
Now you maybe asking what this has to do with meeting women. Well when you consider the biggest fear that most guys have with women is dropping a clanger when they approach a girl. They are afraid that they are going to make a mistake and that if they do the whole world is going to come crumbling down on them.
Well I don’t think you can drop any big a clanger than at the Football World Cup and yet Rob Green has not let it effect him. So what I am saying is, if he can take such a huge cock up and just let it slide by the wayside then you can cock it up with a girl and just let it fall by the wayside as well.
Remember these few things next time you approach a girl:
- If things don’t go according to plan just remember that the whole world is not watching your every move. At the end of the day the only people who are there when you approach a girl is you, her and maybe a few friends of hers. You are talking about a handful of people at the most not the millions that watched Rob Green fluff it.
- On a night out a girl gets approached a number of times. The chances of her actually remembering the interaction with you and her is slim at best. Unless you do some crazy crazy thing you will just be another guy who didn’t quite make the grade. Whereas Rob Green will probably be remembered for this blunder for the rest of his life.
- Even if you are awesome with women, you will always make mistakes. The gurus out there who say they can pick up any girl any time, 100% of the time is lying. We all make mistakes and that is demonstrated by one of the best goalies in the world make a big blunder. You must realise that you will make mistakes and that you just have to accept that fact.
I think what we need to learn is that you need to put things into perspective. Yes it is not very nice being rejected by a girl however you must realise that it will happen to you. Whether that is because you are just starting out trying to meet women and the inexperience leads to mistakes. Or because you are very experienced but still experience those days where nothing goes right and you make mistakes that mean you don’t get the girl. What ever your skill level you will make mistakes and you need to deal with them just like Rob Green has done.
Catch you laters,
Preston Blain
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