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.
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.
They are both in brics now. The middle eastern countries want military security guarantees, because they hate each other. That's why they use the dollar. The US is the only country who can offer such guarantees.I'm sure Iran will suddenly come into great resources and weapons along with a vigor to go after Saudi Arabia.
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.
True about hating eachother.They are both in brics now. The middle eastern countries want military security guarantees, because they hate each other. That's why they use the dollar. The US is the only country who can offer such guarantees.
I'm not sure about that. Being tied down to BRICS could force real commitment to the cause.This is a nothingburger. These folks don't trust each other, so they'll never get along.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Highly unlikely. It's far too ingrained and all of the systems the financial institutions in the world use are linked to the US Dollar along with how they finalize transactions between banks via SWIFT.This will likely begin to pave the way from US dollar to Gold Standard, anytime this has had a chance to happen, the US have gone to war and prevented it. I'm sure Iran will suddenly come into great resources and weapons along with a vigor to go after Saudi Arabia.
It's already happening. China has been stockpiling gold for a long time, SA is considering taking Chinese currency over US.Highly unlikely. It's far too ingrained and all of the systems the financial institutions in the world use are linked to the US Dollar along with how they finalize transactions between banks via SWIFT.
You have no idea what you are suggesting or the scope or massiveness of the undertaking this would be and how many systems would need to be changed/designed and made to retroactively work together. Let's just say it would be a monumental undertaking akin to building all of the interstates in the US starting from scratch times 50.
Would be far too costly and far require far too much effort to do so and even at that it would be a very small subset of countries that did it with very few following suit.
I worked for one of the largest global banks in the world, trust me when I tell you it's not happening. At least not in any of our lifetimes.
Even with the inflation that's happened the last year or so, the US Dollar by comparison is one of the most stable currencies and realistically the only one that could serve as a common denominator throughout the world. Even the countries that are trying to switch begrudgingly would be forced to agree with this if you held a match to their foot.
Not to mention that several countries official currency is the US dollar.
Also, what's going to happen when those huge gold reserves found in Africa start flooding the market? The price of gold will drop like a rock. Imagine your dollar being pegged to that once it happens with no way of switching back. Would be a doomsday scenario for those countries that would result in countries turning into third world countries overnight.
If you think crypto is done it's laughable. It's just getting started. Financial institutions didn't just spend billions collectively to start these divisions, create an asset class out of it and then just walk away.It's already happening. China has been stockpiling gold for a long time, SA is considering taking Chinese currency over US.
Why have they been stockpiling gold? In efforts to avoid sanctions, same reason Russia has.
Look at what the USD is backed by, trillions dollars of debt, it doesn't take a genius to see faith is waning on a global scale, but don't take my word for it, listen to this guy who is an economic expert and has been for a long time, who actually has established credentials outside of "I'm this and that".
Also, I find it amusing your claiming to know economics, yet your crypto guru posts have all but dissipated, you know what has not dissipated? GOLD.
Give me a break guy.