"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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Every man worth his salt needs to watch this

FlexpertHamilton

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If you don't wanna watch the whole thing the best parts are around the 1hr 50m mark to the end but the whole episode is just gold. This is from 2007. 16 years before dating talk podcasts were remotely a thing, and when the red pill was still in it's infancy and completely underground. Patrice O'Neal is a literal sage, he drops so much wisdom in here it's worth several rewatches.



Here's a short clip from one his rants that might give you an idea how ahead of his time he was, if you're still not convinced:
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Pretty interesting listen. Hadnt heard of him
 
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