"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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Fear and Loathing no more...

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Looks like author Hunter S. Thompson, who's [awesome] book inspired the movie, comitted suicide yesterday (Sunday).

As a fan of the type of work he does and the genre he inspired, this sucks.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7005168/
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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R.I.P.

I enjoyed Fear and Loathing ... and hsi commentaries on culture. The Culture of Fun has lost another of its main men. I'm sure many will smoke a bowl in memoriam...
 
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R.I.P you were a man amongst elfs and stuff

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My god...is no one safe?

I gtg lay down and think about what you have told me.

Maybe cry a lil.
 
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I had high hopes of doing hard drugs with mr. thompson. He will be greatly missed along with his literature. well the literature is always gonna be here.....damn it.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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