Is it better to do what you normally do and hope to meet somebody doing that, or is it better to go out of your way and actively try to find somebody that has things in common with you?

It may be a combination of both, but i would like to know the thoughts of others on this issue.

For example, I will not go to a bar to try and meet a woman because I rarely drink alcohol and by doing so I may give across the message that I drink more than I actually do. Stuff like that.

Any thoughts here that are useful are welcome. Thanks!

If you don't drink alcohol then looking for a woman in a bar is a bad idea

I'd stay within my usual routine and locations and look within them.

For example, everybody goes to the supermarket and you can learn a lot about a person by just looking at what they are buying...

yeah, maybe a bit too creepy to stand in the isles and just look at women shopping... ;)

but I hope you get the drift

Men and women are so very different.
You come to us, usually.
Hard to imagine trolling for dates.
And because what you are doing seems not to be effective
(Albert Einstein's famous line: "Insanity is doing the
same thing over and over again and expecting different
results.") you may just be insane, too ;-)

The grocery store scenario is sound, concerts if you have
tickets, waiting rooms at the dentist hahaha anywhere
my good man ;-)

Thank you all for the input. Have a great day.

That is why i do not do it. :D. Besides, most bars do not have 100% cranberry juice, they have Ocean Spray which is nasty. Can't have a proper gin and cranberry if you destroy it with apple juice. But that may just be me.

Going to bars to meet women is so passé. Coffee or tea shops specially in your
neighbourhood is the thing these days. Park yourself in Starbucks and you'd know
what they are ordering and their names too. Now, that's a good conversation
starter, isn't it?

Welcome and good luck, Eman Resu

A combination of both. If you don't do or go anywhere where you could possibly meet the kind of woman you're looking for it will get difficult.
So in that sense you may have to change your normal routine. But it should still be in accordance with you and your personality otherwise you end up meeting ppl who won't be a match.

Not going to the pub to meet someone because you fear they'll take you for a drinker is nonsense. They're there too after all. Unless you are a boozer, getting drunk. But if that's who you are... Then you're likely better off finding a woman in a pub than in an art gallery.

My first thought of a man in a pub is not that he is a heavy drinker. I see him as a man who likes to go out, have a good time and socialize. Unless he's knocking them back and getting blind drunk. But that's not most people.