"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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Get it together.

Rhoto

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Its been a while since I’ve posted or browsed the forums, but I’ve had a major shift in my life and want to communicate some things I believe are invaluable to what I refer to as the holy trinity – Health, Wealth, Happiness.

1) Value Time – Time is the ultimate currency. Use yours well. The longer you remain indecisive, the longer you tolerate nonsense, the longer you remain a coward – the more opportunities will pass you by. Life doesn’t wait, so take action on whatever tickles your fancy. Regardless of the outcome, you will gain experience and that in itself is worth doing nearly anything.

a. With time is also comes the ultimate opportunity costs, so always weigh your choices. I usually side with whatever will be more beneficial down the road; like studying an extra couple of days instead of trolling for tail. Life isn’t 4-6 year segments; it’s a continuous cycle that builds upon itself.

2) Protect Your Sperm – In the literal and figurative sense. Don’t have babies. If you want kids that’s all well and good, but my bet is you’re not financially secure and don’t have the presence of mind to raise a child properly. So don’t get anyone pregnant until you do. But also protect your manhood. Personally I think the idea of having a “girlfriend” is retarded. Women come in all flavors, so why tie down to one? Don’t live with a woman, minimize your feminine influence, and never compromise your beliefs for a woman.

3) Don’t be a loser - Go to college. Real college. Save your money, invest your money. Don’t get married without a prenuptial. Live within or below your means. Get your debt load to zero. Our society’s income gap is expanding, and those on the favorable side are usually well educated. And then, add the way the economy is going; those without a degree are going to be chaff of the wheat.

4) Don’t Measure Yourself – This idea about “making progress” or building confidence like there is a measuring stick of some sort is sad. You’re either a man of action, or a boy pretending to play the part. Simple. So shake this notion that there is a grooming process that will eventually deliver you to the promised land; you possess all the ability, willpower, or at least the direction, RIGHT NOW to do whatever you want. You may not get what you want, but as Teddy Roosevelt said:

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with the cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

5) Let em know they’re replaceable – Many women believe they control a divine vagina. That somehow after you sleep with them, no other women will do. (Now if your experience is rather short, you may succumb to this. Don’t.) Remind them how easily replaced they are. Subtle things, showing up late, not calling back, calling her the wrong name…etc. And always know you can do better.

More will come when they are refined.
 

"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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