"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.
What Book Has Gotten You Laid the Most?
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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Have you read Cat in The Hat?.....no more Netflix and chill.....its all about Dr.Seuss and Chill
IKO69
Master Don Juan
The best cat-care book I've ever read!
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
RangerMIke
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zekko
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This is a perfect example of something I've always said: What you need for success is highly individualistic (as opposed to the typical one size fits all "Do this and you'll get laid" PUA advice). It depends on what is holding you back. It may be 50 different things, or it may be one small thing that you can change and see a big difference.
Anyway, I agree with IKO69. Books don't get you laid. Ideas are a nice starting point, but you have to take action. You could take action and do the wrong thing, and probably have more success than learning a good idea and then doing nothing.
RangerMIke
Master Don Juan
Yep... how you physically show up is half the battle, and something you CAN control. Look good, dress well in clothes that fit your style and body and this will get you through the front door because this is the first thing anyone notices about you. You can have great game, but if you have a beer belly, and look like you just rolled out of bed you'll never get to the starting line.
Get to the starting line first... then you can worry about how to run the race.