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.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Totally agree.I've never really noticed any difference.
However, in my experience the absence of a father has a significantly detrimental impact on boys raised by women only. They are the most fvcked up IMO, they have a god awful time dating, and/or find themselves in trouble more often. YOu want to see how the absence of men impacts a community...All you have to do is look at American inner cities and see what percentage of men in prison were raised by single moms.
Women raised without a father isn't that much of a factor in and of itself. However, how the MOTHER behaves in the absence of a father DOES impact chicks. If her mom is a cvm burping hoe with a string of dudes... the chick raised like this will have a VERY hard time with trust and binding with a particular man.
I agree it can build character and resilience.I was raised by a single mother who passed away 2 years ago, I thrive in dating, business, social settings, the lot.
I believe any arrangement growing up where you do not have 2 loving parents is going to be detrimental to a child's growth, regardless of male or female or who is missing out of mum or dad. It's a human nature and nurture situation rather than a gender one. But that's never to say someone can't achieve and be successful regardless of upbringing. A hard life can and does build character, it makes you fearless and driven, fvck you both.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
A baby boy ONLY inherits the physical acpects of his father, good chance to have his voice, face or body type and maybe some sort of predisposed medical conditions. That's where it stops.As far as men going to jail, if an alpha father pumps n dumps a woman and leaves behind a kid, there’s a good chance that kid ain’t gonna be a pansy and will often find himself in trouble
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
I saved this as a bookmark when you first posted it and I read it every once in a while. Best Thread on Sosuave IMO! Should be made a Sticky.
At 46, you have to be able to make your own decisions and have strong enough principles to guide you by then. You shouldn’t seek reaffirmations from others because you should already be sure of yourself enough to know that you’re following the right path. You’re at least 20 years behind on that.Even at this age which I am 46, I still go back to my elders to reaffirm my set of principles when I am conflicted or hit a stumbling block.
This was me and still is my brother. I never really unpacked why but I was pretty messed up until mid twenties until I really started to work on myself properly. I imagine boys with weak fathers have the same impact, I don't think they'd need to be absent. Not to mention the fact masculinity is so under attack in modern society that it's just going to be worse for boys in general. We all have to play a part in fixing that **** where we can. I take a lot of young men "under my wing" when I can. Just giving them some basic advice and telling them it's okay to be a man is new to them. Sad state of affairs out there at the moment.I've never really noticed any difference.
However, in my experience the absence of a father has a significantly detrimental impact on boys raised by women only. They are the most fvcked up IMO, they have a god awful time dating, and/or find themselves in trouble more often.
You mean principles that stays the same like in a time capsule? How does that serve me or even anyone?At 46, you have to be able to make your own decisions and have strong enough principles to guide you by then. You shouldn’t seek reaffirmations from others because you should already be sure of yourself enough to know that you’re following the right path. You’re at least 20 years behind on that.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.