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.
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.
She's going into real estate and will soon be making 6 figures or more, in a world filled with several billion people who are going to spend their lives performing manual labor, in exchange for f-cking pennies. This is a tragedy on par with The Two Corys becoming multi-millionaires in their 20s, only to piss it all away on dope and floozies, by time The early 90s were upon us
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.
Incorrect. Most real estate agents fail. Most don't do very well. In the USA, real estate agents work strictly on sales commission and lack a base salary. If they don't sell anything, they don't get paid.o
She's going into real estate and will soon be making 6 figures or more, in a world filled with several billion people who are going to spend their lives performing manual labor, in exchange for f-cking pennies.
Agreed...perhaps she should change the type of man she is looking for and she would have better success25 is 'aged out'? She still looks very young and attractive too
As do most folks in every other profession. Getting licensed and qualified doesn't make you exempt from learning how the game is played, then acting accordinglyIncorrect. Most real estate agents fail. Most don't do very well
It was a little bit early in the morning when I replied and I wasn't thinking about the facetiousness. Good work on that as I re-read it now.In any event, the post you're replying to was facetious in nature. I keep forgetting that our cultural capacity to pick up on such things is dying out faster than the main cast of Pretty Little Liars's acting careers
Most real estate agents fail. Most don't do very well.
I would not recommend residential real estate as a career because of the commission pay structure. I'm amazed at how many people do it. There is high turnover in the field and that's predictable. Only a small percentage of real estate agents get the majority of the residential real estate sales. Knowing that, I would not want to make that career decision. Staying in bottle service in the short term and then finding something with a lower failure risk seems like a better life plan.As do most folks in every other profession. Getting licensed and qualified doesn't make you exempt from learning how the game is played, then acting accordingly
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.
Contact the gal in that video, and grace her with your wisdom, SW. She might FedEx you the key to her hotel room, as an expression of gratitudeI would not recommend residential real estate as a career because of the commission pay structure