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.
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.
Books ain't worth sh'it If you only can memorize them and then spit out again on a paper, (like you learn in school) - and in reality cannot utilize, really understand and apply the knowledge in the real world to create tangible results.
Ok. I'll take your advice and spend a year or two improving my social skills, I will read: practical female psychology for the practical man, and will practice socializing with women on OLD. Thank you!
So you assume he can't be built with a big d1ck and can't fvck?
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.
Knowledge and mindsets are in books.
True, indeed.
I was saying being book smart is not mutually exclusive with being socially intelligent. You can have both.True, indeed.
But knowledge isn't power.
True power is only elevated through the knowledge of how to truly utilize its potential power by understanding it and then apply it to the real world.
In this case in regards to above:
Just because you can read and memorize the books doesn't equal to you can actually apply the knowledge and mindsets are in books.
Book smart; maybe yes (?), but dumb as a brick in the real world.
There is too many people that try to appear intellectual and make an appearance of being really smart/intelligent because they have read some books and can spit out the words in a few seconds. But if you ask them deep probing questions about their so called "knowledge" then the facade quickly crumbles like the glass in a mirror when it shatters on the floor.
In regards to this forum and women/game it quickly shows too because the knowledge of the game isn't that complicated (well not easy either), but "lesser people" that some people would classify as "dumb" is the ones that got real game - even "natural gamers" if you would, because they do understand how to apply the knowledge and read the social code in the real world.
Yes correct; being really highly intelligent can be a road killer too, because they tend to over-analyze and over think it. But on the same time how smart are if you cannot apply simple knowledge of human psychology and use the social code to your advantage, (which the game to high degree is about I would argue)?
True indeed. I agree.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Ok. I'm using my academic skills (ability to learn) to learn the guitar.
Cool. Well learn the guitar, get into a rock band and then you should get girls chasing you.
If you have that ability to learn, you can focus your academic skills on educating yourself about women also. ……
I plan on doing that.
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.
Ok. I will.
Good, the best hunters Always know the traits and habitats of their target before they leave the house …
Pro tip:
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.
