"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
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.
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"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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Such a good movie!
Movies that I've seen lately that lit a fire under my ass:
"The bucket list" - makes you want to accomplish every dream you've ever had!
"Zorba the Greek" - Zorba's carefree and always young character is something that I wish could apply to me. Hell, I feel older than him!
"Alfie" (1966) - The main character is a DJ.
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1. Shawshank
2. Rocky
3. Amelie
Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood is a badass even at his age
300 - This is spart
Casablanca - I don't know why but this movie makes me happy
I have to rewatch Shawshank Redemption and Zorba the Greek
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Miracle On Ice....US Olympic underdog hockey team beats Russians.
The Quiet Man.....John Wayne. Nuff said.
Mystery Alaska.....Russell Crowe. Another underdog movie. A favorite.
Gettysburg....Martin Sheen
Gods and Generals....Robert Duvall
"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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You think you have problems?
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I've seen this. One of Alec Baldwin's best performances.Julius_Seizeher said:
Count Rocky and 300 in, too. Also any movie by Bruce Campbell. Not because the movies are great but because Bruce is a B-movie actor who up to this day never gives up trying to be an A-movie actor.
"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.