How do I get up enough courage to walk up to a girl and start a conversation?

Baby steps, my friend, baby steps. First off all, you do talk to girls every day. Odds are, you have a mother and you have female teachers at school. It may be hard to believe but they were girls once, too. Also, I’m sure that you have friends who are girls that you talk to without getting nervous.

Second, you don’t want to just walk up to any random girl and just start talking. Her “stalker” radar will go up and she’ll be gone so fast it won’t matter what you wanted to say. You need to start talking to girls who you have something worth saying to, not just total strangers. For example, to get comfortable talking to different girls, you can start with a girl in your history class who you don’t usually talk to. Say something like, “Wow, that test was hard. What did you think?” You are both already thinking about the test so it’s an instant conversation starter. Before you know it, you are talking to a girl you never talked to before.

Then you just start looking for these kinds of oppurtunities every where you go. That girl who has the locker next to yours. A girl who is in band with you who you have never spoken to before. Everywhere you go, there will be girls who you have something in common with. If you didn’t both love the same music, you wouldn’t be at the same concert. So use the concert as a jumping point for a conversation.

Always start with that common thread of something you have in common with the girl, and it will be easy to strike up a conversation and get talking. And the more you do it the easier it will be.