Stoic Warrior
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Is it better to use simpler language and a more informal style?
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 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 think it applies in general.What types of women? A high power white collar or upper level management would also like less than perfect language?
Continuing the marketing analogy, this is a target market thing. Speaking well will not intimidate a white collar woman with an upper middle class or higher background. A lower middle class or lower class background women could have issues with a well spoken guy.What types of women? A high power white collar or upper level management would also like less than perfect language?
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.
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.
What about an intellectual woman? What about a by the book driven achiever?I don't see how speaking clearly would hurt. However focusing on things like syntax, consistency, logic, etc is huge mistake, since women don't care about those things, they only care about the moment to moment emotions you are causing them to experience.
I don't know because I've never met any. Recently I met girl who claimed to be into Stoicism like me, but later found out she only read one book by some millenial clown named Ryan Holiday. As soon as I mentioned the ancient Greek/Roman Stoic philosophers who I loved, she lost interest and the conversation fizzled out.What about an intellectual woman? What about a by the book driven achiever?
Your last statement resonates. For most of them if they sense high intelligence in you they will revert to a devaluation mode for you. So one needs to be able to speak more "common", and hide their intelligence.I don't know because I've never met any. Recently I met girl who claimed to be into Stoicism like me, but and later found out she only read one book by some millenial clown named Ryan Holiday. As soon as I mentioned the ancient Greek/Roman Stoic philosophers who I loved, she lost interest and the conversation fizzled out.
Finding a woman who is genuinely intellectual and reads not to impress people but out of interest and necessity is a rarity. It's hard to say if it would help build attraction...good conversation and chemistry is definitely great to have but intellectu al conversation isn't very sexy. Seems better to save it for a later stage in the relationship.
True... women care more about what your body language is saying rather than what is coming out of your mouth. Talking doesn't really help you, but can hurt you. Conversations with women you are trying to impress is more about not making mistakes than saying something that will help you.I don't see how speaking clearly would hurt. However focusing on things like syntax, consistency, logic, etc is huge mistake, since women don't care about those things, they only care about the moment to moment emotions you are causing them to experience.
The intellectual woman is still a woman, meaning she is more concerned about what she is saying and how you respond to her than what you have to say. She is going to more concerned if you are listening than what you are saying. All you really need to learn to say is "I never thought of it that way before." and "tell me more". Just let her talk, wait for her to ask what you think about something, then respond with honesty without being a d1ck.What about an intellectual woman? What about a by the book driven achiever?
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.
The intellectual woman is one of the more annoying types of woman.The intellectual woman is still a woman
Those rules should promote a man encouraging her to do all the talking.Speaking -> formal. What a man says, he has to assume she is recording him and it will be shown to 12 jurors who are feminists and hate men.
Writing -> very formal. What a man writes, he has to assume it is being shown to 12 jurors who are feminists and hate men, and a judge who wished all men were dead.
Actions -> within reason, do whatever you want. Actions can be interpreted in many ways. Even if she is recording you. There are a lot of ways to interpret actions to the judge.
I understand the distinction between a market issue and a product issue, but in this case I think it's related to both. It's like the way of dressing, it should be adapted to the market but in general it's better to go too informal than too elegant to be more attractive.I'd say so. I'm well spoken. I write well. It's been a battle with women over 20+ years. Speaking well and expressing myself correctly has been a lesser problem. My biggest problem over time has been using websites/swipe apps and cold approaching to meet women as compared to having a social circle. In marketing terms, this is more a Place (distribution channels) problem than a Product problem. Speaking well and expressing yourself correctly would be a product problem.
I have simplified my writing as compared to my early 20s. I still use proper grammar and don't swear.
Continuing the marketing analogy, this is a target market thing. Speaking well will not intimidate a white collar woman with an upper middle class or higher background. A lower middle class or lower class background women could have issues with a well spoken guy.
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.