Yeah...but WHAT? lolOriginally posted by Take No Dirt:
Hey Wyldfire! You're something![]()
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
Yeah...but WHAT? lolOriginally posted by Take No Dirt:
Hey Wyldfire! You're something![]()
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.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
There is something very strange to me about the mindset of being willing to MARRY a woman only because she is the one who has shown the "most interest" in you. Not that a woman being interested in you is a bad thing, it just doesn't seem like it should be the chief criteria and certainly not the ONLY creteria.Originally posted by Anti-Dump
I have a house that keeps me busy also. The woman that shows the MOST INTEREST gets to live there after marriage.
I am not opposed to looking for a girl who likes you a lot. Who would want to be with someone who WASN'T into them? All I was saying is that it is indicative of some profound emotional security issues for one to hold the highest POSSIBLE "interest level" as the chief if not the ONLY creterion for the woman one intends to marry.Originally posted by Oxide
PDX, looking for a girl who is loyal (likes you a lot) is normal, i dont see anything wrong with it.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
I'm in agreement with Now What. AD's program is a great set of training wheels.Originally posted by Now What
I don't think I'd call AD an AFC, though his strategies are clearly fundamental/ beginner. This is great for beginners. It is important to know the fundamentals.
However, for those who have the basics down, this article by Allen Thompson on Confident Persistence describes (essentially) AD's tactics and their weaknesses, and then goes on to describe more advanced tactics: http://www.sosuave.com/articles/persistence.htm
?FACT that a woman of extraordinary attractiveness requires a MUCH different approach than a girl who ain't all that hot.
You can skip the expensive cars, the fancy clothes, and the endless gym selfies. Completely unnecessary.
I used to freeze the second a beautiful woman looked my way. Frustrated. Awkward. Watching other guys walk away with the girl while I stood there tongue-tied.
Then I discovered 22 simple rules that rewired my entire dating life. The anxiety vanished. Conversations flowed effortlessly. Women started chasing me for a change.
These rules trigger a woman's subconscious attraction switches. And you can start using them tonight.
I wasn't recommending that you put up with BS just because she is hot. I think you misunderstood me. All I said was that it requires a different approach to be successful with a more attractive girl than with a less attractive girl. If you want me to elaborate further I will, but I think you will understand now.Originally posted by Oxide
Yes, hot girls know they are hot. They usually have more guys wanting them. Why the hell should i care? I want her, and ill be damned if i am going to put up with BS just becuase she is hot!
Maybe I shouldn't have said that. But I don't know what else to call a guy who has such a deadly fear of losing a woman that he implements a system designed to weed out all women besides the "most interested woman" in the hopes of finding a woman SO interested that there is, in his mind, ZERO possibility of ever losing her. He is so insecure that he cannot even stand to entertain it as a possibility that he may loose a woman. Even the NAME Anti-Dump reflects this neurotic phobia of his! Come on! And what else would cause him to be so neurotically afraid of losing a woman besides an underlying lack of condfidence in his ability to be interesting or attractive to them? And finally...what type of guy would have such negative deeply held beliefs about his desirability to women as those here aforementioned? ANSWER: An AFC.Originally posted by Mr. Mystery
That being said, I'm not sure I would go so far as to call him an AFC or anything negative.
What do I think? I think it was absolutely unnecessary and inappropriate for you to post DeepBlue's article (which by the way is a masterpiece) in your own thread when it would have been so much easer to provide a link to it. Which would have credited him more strongly for his own material rather than causing you to be praised as some sort of proxy for DeepBlue.Originally posted by Oxide
I see you mentioned DeepBlue. He was a great guy.
Read this post, i'm curious what you think:
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I agree, although I think the guy just didn't know any better.I think it was absolutely unnecessary and inappropriate for you to post DeepBlue's article
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.