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.
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.
Starrie said:The value of compliments depends on context and frequency.
Complimenting too much is like being a clown and constantly laying on the jokes, especially via text. It's begging for a reaction and she sees that. Try attaching compliments to other things so that they aren't so glaring and 'ta-da, look at me'.
Ex:
HER: To be honest, I'm usually into men a little older than you lol.
YOU: To be honest I normally go for girls [her age range]. The conversation is just better. You look like you're [four years younger than she is], but I'll let it slide.
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.
Dude, they are trying to improve their game, not grammer *****ng relax.Boilermaker said:Note the difference between the word
compliment
and
complement.
You guys are meaning to have an intellectual discussion. Write intellectually, then.
remembering that one lol.muscleman said:('I like your hair, can't wait to pull it').