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.
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.
I thought that you could. It happens in all those movies.Forty0ztoFreedom said:You mean you don't just start groping them in public buses?
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
I had a colleague from Brazil - and in commercials you could not directly mention or attack other companies or their products.AAAgent said:those japanese sure are creative. They make great cartoons, porn, technology, comedy shows, clothes, and anything else i can think of.
I learned in one of my law classes that in japan, business competition are not allowed to say they are better than any other competition. From this stems creativity since they have to find other unique ways to oust their competition.
In the U.S. you see commercials say things like "Coke has less sugar and calories then pepsi and is preferred by most athletes." This apparently would not be allowed in japan. Instead they'll probably say something like "Coke, does a body good." Then you see the parents replace the milk with coke and then do something ridiculously stupid/funny/creative.
True. I have a friend who just returned from China after 3 years of teaching English, and he told me how much of an outcast they treated him as. He seemed sooo much sharper. He had to get creative to deal with the cutthroatness of the Chinese people. He also said that anything you Buy in the marketplaces there falls apart within a week. When you see "Made in China" on something Probably at a Wal-Mart etc. it's not made by the Chinese, per se, it's made by American companies, equipment, etc, ON Chinese soil.Trader said:Try doing business in China VS US. In China you will get a headache, you have to be very cunning over there.