"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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This is bad advice. as long as you go to a good school you’ll always have the following two words available to you: alumni network
Solid school and a degree in a field that's both in demand and has staying power. As of this writing, the most popular majors among most students continues to be psychology and business, despite the former not being especially lucrative to anyone who isn't pursuing a PHD + going to write books and sell courses afterwards, and most undergrads in the later being far too general to be especially attractive to future employers. This, after observers have been pointing out the futility of such choices for decades now

As is so often the case, folks choose what appears to be easy, rather than majoring in say economics or management information systems, then pursuing their MBA afterwards. Ya know, a route that requires one spend less time binge watching the latest Gundam Wing reboot, and more time reading and preparing for exams
 
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"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Solid school and a degree in a field that's both in demand and has staying power. As of this writing, the most popular majors among most students continues to be psychology and business, despite the former not being especially lucrative to anyone who isn't pursuing a PHD + going to write books and sell courses afterwards, and most undergrads in the later being far too general to be especially attractive to future employers. This, after observers have been pointing out the futility of such choices for decades now

As is so often the case, folks choose what appears to be easy, rather than majoring in say economics or management information systems, then pursuing their MBA afterwards. Ya know, a route that requires one spend less time binge watching the latest Gundam Wing reboot, and more time reading and preparing for exams
It won't be a matter of time there will a next big World War in the future and by the looks of things, crap might hit the fan sooner than we think. There's talks of a great big black out sooner that can shut down the Internet grid that cause a global catastrophe, it may not happen ten years from now, but maybe due to people's sinful and bad nature, it's only natural that these type of things are going to occur and as some sort of global punishment for relying way too much on technology instead of the natural means of life.
 
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