"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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Is swagger the highest form of confidence?

Thatfeel21

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Ive noticed a decent amount girls cant seem to differentiate between

****iness/arrogance/high confidence...but i think swagger is the ultimate

confidence and is unmistakable by anybody within 30 feet of you if you

honestly possess it..

its in the way you talk, the way you walk, the way you carry yourself...

and when you have it, you just know it..

thoughts?
 

"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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comic_relief

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How about action and belief to go after what you want, then achieving it? That to me is the highest form of confidence.

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tick37

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Confidence is being confident without having to put other people down to have it, and that gives you your swagger.

****iness has to have someone to put down in order to feel better which is not the same as confidence.

Confidence comes from within.

****iness and arrogance come externally.


I the mention of swagger though. Good play on words!
 

"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.

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