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.
I wouldn't go so far as to be labelled a jerk/a**hole. You can remain the prize, have confidence, be outgoing, be ****y, funny, sweet, all at the same time without being a jerk. Once you are labelled as one, it's often very dificult to get out of it.HandyAndy said:Does this work? I always hear about girls saying "I hate boys, theyre *******s!" or "hes a jerk!"
Discuss 8=====D
Yes, it does. But only because jerks and *******s have 2 qualities (among others) that drive women nuts...they are 'challenging' and 'mysterious'. These personality traits attract women like a set of Double D's attract men.HandyAndy said:Does this work? I always hear about girls saying "I hate boys, theyre *******s!" or "hes a jerk!"
Discuss 8=====D
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.
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.
I'm Charming said:I think it is simultaneously possible to be a jerk and get treated like an AFC.
I was always this arrogant ******* that didnt care what anyone thought of me but this got me labelled in School as a:
1) Target - Other guys dont like arrogance, it's treated as a threat, and I have had people be physically violent towards me on several occassions because I've told them to f**k off when offered with a proposition of their authority that I didn't like.
My lack of physicality on these issues gave:
2) Loss of social status. If you're not physical then its hard to retain authority, because if you are arrogant and not a strong person in a physical sense then you will take a beating - if you take a beating you are automatically pushed down the ranks of social status.
Which in turn made me appear:
3) Friendless. The more this cycle repeats the more you are considered friendless or low status, you are treated as insecure, Women see you as insecure and vulnerable, you are a jerk but you are simultaneously treated like an AFC because of your lowered social status and lack of physical strength.
4) Loss of mental strength. The more this cycle repeats the weaker you will become mentally weak as well, it's hard to retain confidence unless you know how to fake it - I became a bumbling, long haired **** with a continued determination to look at my shoes, from an originally arrogant, yet confident young man I turned into a weak, insecure, loser. So while arrogance can keep you up there, it can also bring you down.
So I'd say there is a transition period where you can be both - but you will eventually become one or the other, arrogance is not a good quality unless it is backed up by strength of person.
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.
What the hell does my post count have to do with this?DarthAngel707 said:Wow Andy 1,755 posts and you don't even know the secrets of the jerk or what makes them so alluring.... This "chicks like bad boys" subject is the most common subject in all of seduction and yet you have to ask this???
Next time you should memorize what you read and let the concepts sink into your skull before asking a question that you have probably already read and has been answered literally around 5,000+ times.
HandyAndy I have been though the EXACT same situation, and it fcked me up a bit for a fairly long time. Looking back I now know where I went wrong. Game goes a lot deeper then the DJ Bible would have you believe. It is a set of guidelines, not a set of concrete rules, and it never should have been called the bible. In real life every one of those rules can and probably will be broken. The thing is you have to have something going for you, or sometimes you just get lucky. When what you described happened to me, I started doubting the DJ Bible, and I wondered if it didn't apply at all in highschool. I still think today that highschool is a bit different, this is just because the environment is different and the main thing is that girls don't have much experience at all. You can probably get away with a lot of AFC things, more depending on how experienced the girl is and how attracted she is to you.Third, I do know why chicks like bad boys, the reason I asked this question is because im here reading all this seduction material, while my nice guy friend lands a girlfriend and he hasnt read one sentence about attracting women, which lead me to believe that high school game is different, which is why I asked this question...
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.