"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.

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30 Days to Being A Better Man : Art of Manliness

"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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I just discovered this site last week when I was looking for tips on straight-razor shaving. It's pretty cool.
 

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They call it 30 days, but I see it as 30 habits and goals to do, and so I've given myself a whole year to achieve them. I've got 9 so far, and 2 to be completed very soon this week.
 

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The backbone of that site is actually Benjamin Franklin's 13 Virtues,something I have strived for ever since I read his autobiography

  1. [FONT=&quot]"TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."[/FONT]
  2. [FONT=&quot]"SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."[/FONT]
  3. [FONT=&quot]"ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time."[/FONT]
  4. [FONT=&quot]"RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."[/FONT]
  5. [FONT=&quot]"FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing."[/FONT]
  6. [FONT=&quot]"INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions."[/FONT]
  7. [FONT=&quot]"SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly."[/FONT]
  8. [FONT=&quot]"JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty."[/FONT]
  9. [FONT=&quot]"MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve."[/FONT]
  10. [FONT=&quot]"CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation."[/FONT]
  11. [FONT=&quot]"TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."[/FONT]
  12. [FONT=&quot]"CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation."[/FONT]
  13. [FONT=&quot]"HUMILITY. Imitate [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Jesus[/FONT][FONT=&quot] and [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Socrates[/FONT][FONT=&quot]."[/FONT]
 
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