"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Fight Club: A Lesson In Masculinity. This changed my life.

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

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.

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Fight Club is a great movie, as long as you don't take it more serious than the film does itself.
 
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I'd say that the movie's themes are more closely related to the rejection of materialism and capitalism. Tyler and the Narrators characters seems to portray something similar to Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" (read it if you haven't).

The narrator is stuck in a world of materialism. His comfy yuppie apartment, his television set, his nice clothes, his car.. Whatever. The narrator represents the person who is shackled in the cave staring at the shadows on the wall as if they are reality, when in fact it is a distorted matrix of what reality ACTUALLY is.

Tyler represents the man who has been freed from his chains and has seen the promised land outside of the cave. He saves the Narrator from his life goals of attaining the material crap that he does not need and introduces him to fight club. (I will save further ideas on the relations of tyler and the narrator for those who have not seen the film).

A lot of people really seem confused about the fighting aspect of fight club saying that it's stupid brutish etc.. But this scene to me represents an anger and ungrounding from all they have every known. They feel that they have been cheated, so they let out their anger collectively. At first with Fight Club, then further on with project mayhem. It just seems to convey a "lost generation" more to me than just simply fighting. It also seems that fight club was a foundation of discipline for what is to come with project mayhem.

I don't think this movie really has to do with women at all. It's more about a rejection of capitalist control over the masses in western civilization.
 
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As someone who studied English Lit as a major (and I work in computers now, go figure), I'll just say that a book can have multiple readings, themes, and equally plausible and meaningful interpretations.

That's what makes it fun. A book like Fight Club has multiple layers, and is different every time you read it depending on what you choose to pay attention to. It's deep like that.

So it could be about all of those things and none of them at the same time.
 
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