"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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Financial Independence

Royce

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**** the books, get some experience. Talk to people who've done it, make contacts. Invest in yourself instead of paper markets.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

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.

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Heart Break Kid

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You do not need to be a broker to be good at the market. Long before I had connections, a lot of my university expenses I paid with my equity from short term investment and a couple blue-chip dividends. All common stock too, I never touched bonds or A's.

There are a million virtual stock games that you can play online to learn and test theories you might have. There is an audio book I listened to along time ago called "Getting Started in Stocks." (Wiley Audio) It is a three hour lecture introducing the market to you.

If you do your research it is not hard to see who has a very good chance of long-term growth. Short-term is far more risky but if you stick to it you will quickly develop a sense of what to do -- just keep reading and practicing.

Before you move on to real stocks however you will want a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. This will help you to see where the bulls and bears are and will help you immensely with investing in general.
 
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