"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Do you consider yourself a Pick Up Artist or a Don Juan?

Do you consider yourself a Pick Up Artist or a Don Juan?

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"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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thederekeffect1

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I never really cared for the term "Don Juan", which would explain why I always use quotation marks when I use the term. I suppose that makes me the only person that has voted Pick Up Artist. Honestly, there's not much of a difference. I just prefer one term over the other.
 
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"DJ's" are generally more self-righteous about being a "well rounded individual," yet 98% of the posts ask about how to deal with oneitis. Bit less nonsense in the PU community.
 
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arlanda said:
DJs focus on the inner game while PUAs on the outer game. You need to have both.
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I think that DJs simply focus LESS on outer game...

I've been doing a bunch of PUA stuff, and never have I seen a better balance between inner and outer game, as opposed to what this board porfesses. Just because PUAs offer more routines and material doesn't mean there is more shallowness... A good PUA understands the need to control his own frame before anything else.

My 2 cents.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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As I see it, a PUA focuses on women while a DJ focuses on himself (being a "real man", controlling nature, living life). I'm so enamoured with the DJ concept because of what Pook laid out in his philosophies. That's the way I want to be.

I don't consider myself a DJ so much as it's what I aspire to.
 
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