Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
I DID NOT SAY HE SHOULD BE ARROGANT. NOT ALL KINGS ARE ARROGANT. Most kings are confident men who have direction and know how to lead. I DID NOT SAY ARROGANT. YOU made the connection between KING AND ARROGANT, not me. AND NO, WE ARE NOT ALL EQUALS, necessarily.Analyzeit said:It's only a bit of nervousness buddy.
Knowing why isn't going to help.
But jeff's right don't go round feeling inferior but do not think like a king, you go round thinking your the man and your better then everyone else and everyones going to think your a joke, having an attitude that your the king is not good. Your equal man, equal but better. The questions now weather "would you be afraid to sit with your citizens?" and it's not like that it's would you be afraid to go sit with your equals? I'm not saying don't be better stay as equal, i'm saying don't think your the king, No one likes a king but people do like an equal even if the equal is better then them.
But jeffs right on the second one you have no reason to try please other people, none at all.
And i guess to only way to get over this is experience so try a few things in the boot camp it'll get your confidence up.
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.
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.
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.