"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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What do you think how smart are you? Let's see who seems to have the biggest brain here.

Mine I guess was 95 now I am older I guess I am at 90.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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When you do mental math are you much better than even smart people?
No joke, at a previous job my coworkers would call me the human calculator because I'd do the math in my head and tell people the answer before a person who was using a calculator could punch in the numbers.
 

"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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No joke, at a previous job my coworkers would call me the human calculator because I'd do the math in my head and tell people the answer before a person who was using a calculator could punch in the numbers.
I have met a lot of grind/book smart people and I have met a few actually high IQ people. You can definitely tell the difference between the two.
 

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What do you think how smart are you? Let's see who seems to have the biggest brain here.

Mine I guess was 95 now I am older I guess I am at 90.
I'm a himbo with minus 165 in IQ but I look like Chad thunderc0ck so I get by fine. :rofl::whistle: Ha ha.
 

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No joke, at a previous job my coworkers would call me the human calculator because I'd do the math in my head and tell people the answer before a person who was using a calculator could punch in the numbers.
That is quite amazing. That means you have good memory too. Can you visualize stuff in your brain like an animation?
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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That is quite amazing. That means you have good memory too. Can you visualize stuff in your brain like an animation?
Sometimes yes...I often can see code like that in my head as I am working to solve programming issues or doing bug fixes.
 

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That is quite amazing. That means you have good memory too. Can you visualize stuff in your brain like an animation?
I can easily do this and calculate equations in my head, so it just proves my point how irrelevant your IQ score is lol.
 

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Sometimes yes...I often can see code like that in my head as I am working to solve programming issues or doing bug fixes.
I have a shiitty memory. There is the memory palace method to keep more things in my mind but it does not work with me. Did you ever try stuff like that?
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Being around those MENSA nutters made me realise of how little importance a 'high' IQ actually is. Having an IQ around 120 plus good social skills will get you much more in life than a 140+ range IQ (which often tends to go with poorer social skills).
For most things in life having an iq of 100 ( which is like slightly above average ) is more than enough

The higher the iq level after that, the more you will go towards the “autistic” side

Most of the wealthy people are not geniuses. Look at bill gates, he made most of the money from parenting software that he did not write

Not even Steve Jobs had a big iq
 

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Being around those MENSA nutters made me realise of how little importance a 'high' IQ actually is. Having an IQ around 120 plus good social skills will get you much more in life than a 140+ range IQ (which often tends to go with poorer social skills).
Seems like there are sometimes trade offs in the brain where some brain functions are bit weaker.

So you are at MENSA that is awesome. Maybe some members hava a chip on their shoulder and migh be to focused on even getting more smarter so social skills get worse. If they might focus on social skills they may get better at it but may diminish in other areas slightly.
 

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For most things in life having an iq of 100 ( which is like slightly above average ) is more than enough

The higher the iq level after that, the more you will go towards the “autistic” side

Most of the wealthy people are not geniuses. Look at bill gates, he made most of the money from parenting software that he did not write

Not even Steve Jobs had a big iq
Though when we look at Elon Musk it seems like he knows quite a lot stuff and learns new stuff from different fields very fast. People who know him tell that.
 

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For most things in life having an iq of 100 ( which is like slightly above average ) is more than enough

The higher the iq level after that, the more you will go towards the “autistic” side

Most of the wealthy people are not geniuses. Look at bill gates, he made most of the money from parenting software that he did not write

Not even Steve Jobs had a big iq
All it means is that you have to work at different things harder than a person with a lower IQ.

I used to get A's in school barely studying or opening a book. Lower IQ people had to study their asses off to get B's or C's sometimes.

I had to work very hard to come out of my introvert shell and learn how to be extroverted when I need to be and be social and learn how to talk with women. That was very difficult for me and I had to work really hard at it. Being in sales was the best thing that happened in that regard...you learn how to interact with people or you don't eat. Forces you to learn and adapt really quick. For some of the other lower IQ people it came easy.

You never have to accept where you are at in life with anything. All this means is that each person will have to work harder at certain things than other things to improve at them, whereas those things come easy for other people.

Now, you may never get to a point where you are as good as someone who it comes naturally to no matter how hard you work at it, but there is no reason you can't greatly improve from where you are at currently.

Lets take golf for example. You might never be a PGA Tour Pro, but if you went out every week and played 4 rounds of golf religiously for a year, you'd notice a huge improvement from where you are now to where you'd be in a year. It's like that with anything in life. If you focus your time and energy on improving in that area, you will improve.

How seriously you take it and how focused you are on doing whatever it takes to improve is usually what separates those who make marked improvement versus those who see little improvement.
 
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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