"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Inner Struggles : The Series

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Yeah, I'm copying my dear moderator friend Matrix and doing a series !!
Sue me ! :mad:

:D

Well, don't know if it has been noticed... but I took a recent hiatus from the board...
To spend some time with myself... and think about some things I had to set straight.

Now, after all the fighting with the devils inside of me, I'm going to offer you a personal insight, along with pieces of advice, collected from me, from my friends and some wise words of my good mentor.

So, I finally recognized the most common inner devils that we, adolescent men have to face as we grow old. These fights which make us grow up, are inevitable.
You can't delay it for as long as you want, but eventually you'll have to face them.

The fight is long, and it's mostly within yourself. But it's good to have company and friends while you're at it.

So, here they are:

Inner Struggles: Confusion of Lust - covers that which haunts us and is in my opinion the most cruel of all demons. It is the inevitable confusion that is made between love, care and liking and physical,sexual attraction.

Inner Struggles: The Curse of Rebeliousness - no, I don't want everyone to fit in. But what I do want is for people to stop using rebeliousness as an excuse of their laziness for changing theirselves and becoming better !

Inner Struggles: The Hollow Necessity of Validation - why you do not need everyone else's approval to be happy.

Inner Struggles: Conclusions of a New Born Man - To end the series... some general advices, and a sneak preview from my next projects.

Yeah.
I did it. Prepare your hearts and minds... For some self-evaluation... your life will never be the same...

And don't worry, you'll become a better man...

So, see you boys soon !

BBB
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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BBB, you sexy beast! One suggestion, don't use the 'enter' key so much. I mean, some of your paragraphs are a sentence long, the scrole bar on my mouse is winded! Lol, can't wait for em, later baby!:p
 
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Can't wait, things are looking real good around this forum right about now.
 
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Originally posted by Sammo
Can't wait, things are looking real good around this forum right about now.
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Figures, I take a week off the boards and it improves...
 
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sounds excellent.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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Okay... first there's The Red Pill by me.
Then there's the Man of Action Series by Lorenzo (MoAF)
And now... my brother from a different mother BBB is coming out with a series.

Guys... do we realize what the hell we are doing here? We're about to turn this forum into the hottest thing since toast bread. I can't wait...

The Matrix: Revolution™
 
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So, BBB what happens next?:D This sounds good. Can't wait.
 
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Originally posted by misunderstood??
Geez matrix and BBB, u guys are starting to make me look bad, lol.
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Yeah, even CableLight posted !!
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You should follow his example LOL !!

BBB
 
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Im inspired. With all these series and whatnot i think ill have to join the party.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Due to the chance of this being deleted due to time, Matrix has requested me to bump this for it to stay in the High School bible. Thank you.
 
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