"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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Be a real man - live with chivalry

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Live with chivalry

I'm not talking about putting girls on a pedastal. No way, no how.

I'm talking about living with class and honor. Why? Because you are a man of self-respect.

There are things that *boys* do, that you refuse to do.

There are low standards of behavior that *low quality girls* have, yet you simply refuse to stoop down to their level.

You are better than that.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Yzx06RLUo

Ignore product placement at the end
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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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Proselytiser said:
This just sounds like a variation on the old 'I'm not like the other guys' tactic.

Edit: no real man ignores Chivas Regal
Of course. You have to be *not like other guys* though in a good way of course. After all, the average guy is a chump.
 

"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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I think your risking a move to the wrong side of the mean, Trader

The invisible man he talks to says its okay to be a few standard deviations from the mean just as long as he can recruit more people to his cause.
 

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you lost me at "be a real man" which is a term that grinds my gears. I only hear this from women trying to get you to do what they want, and manginas complaining that you aren't being a pvssy boy like them.

As for living with Honor, that's part of being a man, but not everyone deserves your honor. It's only for family , friends and those who have proven themselves as valuable team mates. Everyone else deserves polite indifference at best and total destruction at worst.
 

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Proselytiser said:
This just sounds like a variation on the old 'I'm not like the other guys' tactic.

Edit: no real man ignores Chivas Regal
Ha ha. :crackup:
 
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