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"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.
Gav's Guide to Motivation (includes help with studying)
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"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.
Quick Update
Four years on, here's a quick update and a nice bump.
Ended up getting myself a really good law degree and a job at one of the best law firms in the country, even managed to get my dissertation published.
I still believe in what I said 4 years ago about long term pleasure; in fact I applied that reasoning when I split up with my 3 year LTR earlier this year - short term pain from the break up but in the long term I'd have much more motivation to improve myself.
One new thing I've been focussing on though - beating the competition, which I don't think I mentioned in my first post. I went through my honours courses at uni with a mindset that there was very strong competition (and there was) and that I was going to beat every single student there. Especially right before exams, I walked up the stairs to the exam hall pumped up, knowing that I was going to excel beyond everyone else.
Got myself top of the class in one of the hardest subjects and close in the others - it's like pook said, Aim for the moon, if you miss at least you'll be among the stars.
Anyways, I'm going back to choke down some more whey before getting stuck into more 18 year old dirties tonight
All the best
Gav x
Four years on, here's a quick update and a nice bump.
Ended up getting myself a really good law degree and a job at one of the best law firms in the country, even managed to get my dissertation published.
I still believe in what I said 4 years ago about long term pleasure; in fact I applied that reasoning when I split up with my 3 year LTR earlier this year - short term pain from the break up but in the long term I'd have much more motivation to improve myself.
One new thing I've been focussing on though - beating the competition, which I don't think I mentioned in my first post. I went through my honours courses at uni with a mindset that there was very strong competition (and there was) and that I was going to beat every single student there. Especially right before exams, I walked up the stairs to the exam hall pumped up, knowing that I was going to excel beyond everyone else.
Got myself top of the class in one of the hardest subjects and close in the others - it's like pook said, Aim for the moon, if you miss at least you'll be among the stars.
Anyways, I'm going back to choke down some more whey before getting stuck into more 18 year old dirties tonight
All the best
Gav x