"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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Getting Drafted

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No matter how slick we think we might be, remember, young men (even younger than 18) got a letter in the mail one day telling them to report for duty, and they went. Many of them never came back. Even if you get nervous, approach in their honor.
 

"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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Lol.
 

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True. I got my draft registration card 6 months ago when I turned 18.

I bet a lot of people would go AWOL today. Even worse than Vietnam protesters.
Yes, which is why the government doesn't use the draft any more. Conscripted soldiers are like slave labor - they don't want to be there, so the quality of work you get out of them is very low. The modern approach to military recruiting is to focus on the poorest people and immigrants, wave a decent job and some college money in their face, and get voluntary recruits that way.

There are so many young people without a job right now that it is actually difficult to get into the military. It took my cousin six months. He's 22, with a completely clean background, and wanted to go US Army Infantry, the most common grunt job there is. And that took six months. It used to be more like six hours. The Army doesn't need a draft when the job market is so sh!tty that there are no other jobs.
 
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