Yeah I've watched a video where Mystery explained that he "fears the approach from time to time" because our hardwiring is designed that way to ensure our survival and replication - the 2 purposes in life.
On the topic of the 3 second rule. Mystery created this rule so that we can approach with the same mindset as normal without our sympathetic and parasympathetic stress response kicking in before the approach. It also ensures that the HB does not discover us backing up the courage to approach. So in the end it's just a rule that ensures we have the highest S&R value before approaching a set.
I personally was never too fond of this idea as I prefer AFCAdam's Metagame. Where backing up courage is not needed and instead we would game the whole room and through preselection the target will become curious and want to be introduced to us. Comparing the outcome of DHV from this method to the 3 second rule it's blatantly obvious which method is more beneficial to use.
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