Guys prefer an outgoing girl.
An outgoing girl isn’t shy about showing signs of romantic interest.
This makes it easier for him to approach her without being too fearful about getting rejected.
Considering that guys are expected to approach women, they want to mitigate the chances of getting rejected.
This is why guys look for romantic cues from a girl that indicate an interest in him.
He observes whether she makes sustained eye contact with him, and smiles.
He listens for compliments directed at him.
He observes whether she is breaking his personal space or leaning into him.
These are all typical signs of romantic interest, especially when there is a combination of several of them aimed at him.
Being at the receiving end of these romantic cues from an outgoing girl, a guy is prepared to take a risk on approaching her, believing that he is mitigating the risk of getting rejected.
A shy girl is a totally different story.
Even in a scenario where she is more beautiful than an outgoing girl, he is more prone to approaching an outgoing girl that has been showing him signs of romantic interest.
The shy girl hasn’t been showing him these signs.
She is standoffish, doesn’t make eye contact, has body language that is closed off, and doesn’t smile at him.
These are all terrifying signs that if he were to taka a chance on approaching her, he is bound to be rejected in the worst way.
He remembers the last time he was rejected by a girl, and how painful and humiliating it was.
It took him a while to rebuild his sense of self-worth after the fact.
He doesn’t want to go through that again.
Furthermore, a shy girl isn’t anywhere near as talkative as an outgoing girl.
He has observed the shy girl spend more time staring at her smartphone over having conversation with the people she comes across.
On the contrary, he has observed the outgoing girl conduct spirited conversations with multiple people that she is coming across.
Thanks to this observation, he knows that in approaching the outgoing girl, he has a better shot of having a conversation without awkward moments of silence.
It is never fun talking to a shy girl that he has assessed will likely do little to contribute to the conversation, leaving the full burden of keeping a conversation going on his shoulders.
Additionally, given the meek nature of a shy girl, he knows that she is far more inclined to be dishonest about her interest in him than an outgoing girl would.
An outgoing girl is bold.
This means that she is far more apt to tell him that she is not interested in him when he approaches her.
Though sad, as long as she delivers the message politely, he licks his wounds and moves on.
He wasn’t led on by her.
He got the truth.
A shy girl on the other hand is less bold.
She has a propensity to mislead him into thinking that she likes him by agreeing to give him her phone number, only to ignore his text message or phone call when he contacts her later on.
This is much worse than getting a plain rejection.
It leads a guy on, making him think that the girl likes him, when she only gave him her phone number because she was too timid to tell him that she wasn’t interested in him.