"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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Need advice on eating/workingout

FiNs2BeCaUgHt

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I'm alittle confused at some things..First of all I have started to lift weights(15 years old)I weigh 170,6 foot. People at my school are already lifting weights.
Should I start lifting heavily now or just lift moderately?All I do is pushups and run. I would do 500 pushups monday-friday, then 1000 saturday and sunday, then skip a week ..so on. I also eat alot, thats what my friends say. Iwould eat around 7-12 meals a day :( Im pretty sure im not fat.My question is, should I start lifting weights alot now or wait until im alittle older?FYI, at my school freshman are lifting 220-290... I lift 245..And also what type of foods should I eat, and one more thing, should i use protien shakes or anything in that general area?
 

"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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EFFORT

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maybe check the vault
 

xilley

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FiNs2BeCaUgHt said:
FYI, at my school freshman are lifting 220-290... I lift 245
what kind of lifting are you talking about? :eek:
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Quagmire911

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Espi makes a very good point.

And you lift 245 at 15? Is this right down to the chest and using free weights? And you haven't done any proper training?

If so, you are a FREAK. (In a good way).
 
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