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.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
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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.
Very interestedI'll give a link to my youtube channel if anyone is interested. Please pm me.
I'll take any feedback on how I look.
I keep trying to explain to people that looks alone are not going to work magic for you unless you are so hot you are like a model and she doesn't care about anything else. And you would know this because they would be approaching you non-stop of this was the case and essentially telling you straight up that they want to fvck.I'm shocked by the feedback. I have a 99% rejection rate so I assumed I'm ugly fugly but people are saying otherwise. Some are saying I need a haircut, but I don't know what to do with my hair.
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and got a 75/100, so basically a 7.5/10, face and body. Again, surprised at that too.
Very true! I think a lot of my rejections are due to the age gap.I keep trying to explain to people that looks alone are not going to work magic for you unless you are so hot you are like a model and she doesn't care about anything else. And you would know this because they would be approaching you non-stop of this was the case and essentially telling you straight up that they want to fvck.
Outside of that, social skills, social tact, understanding interpersonal dynamics, having good body language, knowing how to carry yourself, and knowing how to carry on interesting conversations in person that have enough sexual innuendo and tension built in to create some sort of differentiator between you being a nice guy and you being someone she wants to fvck are the likely things missing.
It's trial and error on dates where you keep things that work regularly and you throw out things that don't work regularly and then you keep refining and refining until you have a basic cookie cutter starting point that works more often than not and you adapt it to individual women based on the patterns you have seen with similar women that worked prior.
There is a concept called Time on Task where your abilities in a certain area directly correlate to the amount of time spent practicing/using your skills in that area. It's known by other names too, but the basic concept is the same...if you want to become good at something, you have to spend a lot of time at it at first, without getting a lot of results. As time goes on, you start improving results much quicker with less time spent so that it is not like a straight line curve but more like a curve that starts out flat for a long while and then starts slowly going up and then going up faster and faster once you reach a certain point.
How long that takes is highly individualistic because it depends a lot on how well you are at analyzing each date, how good you are at setting up and getting dates and how long of a period it takes to get say 100 dates. Dates on a consistent basis so you have practice over and over again with only a short time between them so you can actively adapt will serve much better than weeks between dates where it becomes harder to remember things and make the proper adjustments.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Thanks! Again, I'm surprised honestly. I thought my looks went really downhill after covid, after the stress I had.I like the man. Solid 8/10.
Here's the exact recipe boys...its up to you.I keep trying to explain to people that looks alone are not going to work magic for you unless you are so hot you are like a model and she doesn't care about anything else. And you would know this because they would be approaching you non-stop of this was the case and essentially telling you straight up that they want to fvck.
Outside of that, social skills, social tact, understanding interpersonal dynamics, having good body language, knowing how to carry yourself, and knowing how to carry on interesting conversations in person that have enough sexual innuendo and tension built in to create some sort of differentiator between you being a nice guy and you being someone she wants to fvck are the likely things missing.
It's trial and error on dates where you keep things that work regularly and you throw out things that don't work regularly and then you keep refining and refining until you have a basic cookie cutter starting point that works more often than not and you adapt it to individual women based on the patterns you have seen with similar women that worked prior.
There is a concept called Time on Task where your abilities in a certain area directly correlate to the amount of time spent practicing/using your skills in that area. It's known by other names too, but the basic concept is the same...if you want to become good at something, you have to spend a lot of time at it at first, without getting a lot of results. As time goes on, you start improving results much quicker with less time spent so that it is not like a straight line curve but more like a curve that starts out flat for a long while and then starts slowly going up and then going up faster and faster once you reach a certain point.
How long that takes is highly individualistic because it depends a lot on how well you are at analyzing each date, how good you are at setting up and getting dates and how long of a period it takes to get say 100 dates. Dates on a consistent basis so you have practice over and over again with only a short time between them so you can actively adapt will serve much better than weeks between dates where it becomes harder to remember things and make the proper adjustments.
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.
This is some Yoda ass advice.Plinco, I can tell a lot about you by this simple thread you have started.
You are looking outward to validate your looks. That tells me you lack confidence in yourself and you aren't aware where you stack up. This is your biggest hurdle to get over.
A man that is successful knows he has many other arrows in his quill that he can rely on to get the job done. He isn't going to fret over his looks not being good enough.
Look inward if you want success, no matter what you are wanting to accomplish.
I've started to question myself more after seeing that I only had one date from 96 approaches last year. If there's nothing wrong with the way I look, then I feel relieved. The rest of it I can control, besides my age.Plinco, I can tell a lot about you by this simple thread you have started.
You are looking outward to validate your looks. That tells me you lack confidence in yourself and you aren't aware where you stack up. This is your biggest hurdle to get over.
A man that is successful knows he has many other arrows in his quill that he can rely on to get the job done. He isn't going to fret over his looks not being good enough.
Look inward if you want success, no matter what you are wanting to accomplish.
Which points to whatever you are currently doing is not working and it's up to you to start analyzing and adjusting things.Very true! I think a lot of my rejections are due to the age gap.
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.