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.
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.
Since when is rolling around with other guys macho?Originally posted by immrtlwun
So just make up something like "I used to wrestle, but I messed up my shoulder and can't do it anymore." This creates interest because the girls might see it as very masculine that you were injured doing something macho like wrestling.
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.
lolOriginally posted by oakraiderz2
So many noobs...its crazy.:crazy:
Now who wants to tell me why this doesnt work??Originally posted by True Wolf
Solution: Pick up a sport.
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.
I do! :wave:Originally posted by oakraiderz2
Now who wants to tell me why this doesnt work??
Oh wrestling is tough. 2 men, one MAN. I used to play football too. A 6 minute wrestling match takes more from your body than an entire game. Its one of the most physically and mentally demanding sports out there.Originally posted by Soniq_red
Man, wrestling is fun/
Yaaaay!!!:rockon: Thank you for saving my energy, you are my saviour.Originally posted by AC/DC
I do! :wave:
Because you don't comform to what a girl wants... you do what makes you happy!
Plus, you can lie and say you lift weights or run every day. HOw would they find out? Who even cares?
I tell people I box... I don't... hahah.