SELF-MASTERY
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Why do you guys do it?
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.
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.
I can't speak for the other guys, but I do it for the free ****tails in the Moderator's Corner from 5:30 to 7:00 every weekday evening.Originally posted by SELF-MASTERY
Why do you guys do it?
Because before I was a Mod, HS was a complete mess. Very inactive mods and people were getting away with murder. Spam was left up for days, etc. I just wanted to help the site, but apparently it was a bad decisionOriginally posted by SELF-MASTERY
Why do you guys do it?
Nothing changed until I got there.Originally posted by Vincent
/\/\/\/\ I knew I was missing out on something
Because before I was a Mod, HS was a complete mess. Very inactive mods and people were getting away with murder. Spam was left up for days, etc. I just wanted to help the site, but apparently it was a bad decision![]()
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
Yea its friggin anarchy over here.Originally posted by TheVirtualMind
Nothing changed until I got there.
Spam still is there at times, people still hate you (or stalk you), and a lot of posters get away with muder.
uh this job doesnt pay cash hahahaOriginally posted by spider_007
do you guys have reall jobs, or do you guys sit around a computer all day doing this stuff?????
The benefits are pretty good.Originally posted by spider_007
do you guys have reall jobs, or do you guys sit around a computer all day doing this stuff?????
Well yes, I have a job, but I do sit around on a computer all dayOriginally posted by spider_007
do you guys have reall jobs, or do you guys sit around a computer all day doing this stuff?????
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.
ya, i got one of thoseOriginally posted by Vincent
Well yes, I have a job, but I do sit around on a computer all dayIt's kinda my job.
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It sucks, I really want to be outside doing things instead of sitting in a cubicle all day.Originally posted by spider_007
ya, i got one of those![]()