How to Be Yourself on a First Date

It's not social pressure that forces you to ask a date for a date in a certain particular way. There's just a whole bunch of different ways and you just could be ignorant of understanding how somebody else might react to any particular way you chose. So there's a standard advice on our first date, how should I behave? And somebody says, just be yourself. Right. It's funny because those of us who are older know just how wrong that advice could be.