"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Escape Velocity

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Imagine throwing a rock so fast that it escaped the Earth altogether. The velocity (energy) you would have to apply to it is called Escape Velocity. It means it has enough power to overcome the gravitational pull of the Earth long enough to break free into outer space.

Walking away from someone you love requires a similar amount of power and energy. To turn and walk away and never look back, to never fall back into the gravitational pull of that body, requires tremendous energy. However, when you break free you will feel all of that power, the way you would if you broke through a cargo net that was pulling you back.

When an object does in fact have enough energy to escape the gravitational pull of whatever heavenly body it is currently on, it goes into perpetual motion. It becomes unstoppable and will remain on that path forever or until it encounters another body.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Imagine throwing a rock so fast that it escaped the Earth altogether. The velocity (energy) you would have to apply to it is called Escape Velocity. It means it has enough power to overcome the gravitational pull of the Earth long enough to break free into outer space.

Walking away from someone you love requires a similar amount of power and energy. To turn and walk away and never look back, to never fall back into the gravitational pull of that body, requires tremendous energy. However, when you break free you will feel all of that power, the way you would if you broke through a cargo net that was pulling you back.

When an object does in fact have enough energy to escape the gravitational pull of whatever heavenly body it is currently on, it goes into perpetual motion. It becomes unstoppable and will remain on that path forever or until it encounters another body.
Poetic.
Flip the script. Become the planet, become the rock. Women would need tremendous energy to stop wanting to be with us.
 
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