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joekerr31 said:.... instead of focusing on getting the hottest woman you can, instead focus on getting a woman that is best suited for you.
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This is the essence of DJ maturity.
Well put, JK
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.
joekerr31 said:.... instead of focusing on getting the hottest woman you can, instead focus on getting a woman that is best suited for you.
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This is the essence of DJ maturity.
Well put, JK
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.
Mr.Positive said:Well, the real deal is there is no HB10s or HB9, etc. There's just women, and us men.
There's women that we find attractive, and there's the women that find us attractive.
I'm starting to think this HB rating system is pure BS. My HB10 may be Joekerr's HB8, and Str8up, well..it would probably be a HB5 to him.![]()
I guess what I'm saying is that attraction is subjective. I'll focus on the women that bring out that attraction, and I'll work on generating that same attraction with them.
So, for what it's worth, I'm going for my HB10. I see no reason to settle, even though other's may think she's a HB8, 7, whatever..
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
In the spirit of this reality base thread I think that should be stated, "We have the power to get better looking by working out and eating right"st_99 said:Oh, and another thing. We all have the power to get good looking by working out and eating right.
Of course, easier said than done for most people.
STR8UP said:So should guys learn to be happy with less attractive women? Well, if they notice a pattern that longing for or chasing women who are high on the looks scale is holding him back, then yea, it might be time to look at whether or not he is being a bit unrealistic. Doesn't mean ANYONE should settle, it just means that they should make sure that they are measuring with their OWN scale, and not society's scale.
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.
I think what people are saying is you can't take Bill Gates and turn him into Brad Pitt. Not even with reconstructive and plastic surgery and especially not with just changing his attitude and the words he uses. Now I know someones going to say, Bill Gates could get as many girls as Brad Pitt. That's not the point . He's stil never going to be a sex symbol and there's a limit to how much change/improve any person can make. Not everyone has the same potential for the same things.guru1000 said:Choice B - Increase the standards in yourself.
ketostix said:I think what people are saying is you can't take Bill Gates and turn him into Brad Pitt. Not even with reconstructive and plastic surgery and especially not with just changing his attitude and the words he uses. Now I know someones going to say, Bill Gates could get as many girls as Brad Pitt. That's not the point . He's stil never going to be a sex symbol and there's a limit to how much change/improve any person can make. Not everyone has the same potential for the same things.
Exactly.ketostix said:I think what people are saying is you can't take Bill Gates and turn him into Brad Pitt. Not even with reconstructive and plastic surgery and especially not with just changing his attitude and the words he uses. Now I know someones going to say, Bill Gates could get as many girls as Brad Pitt. That's not the point . He's stil never going to be a sex symbol and there's a limit to how much change/improve any person can make. Not everyone has the same potential for the same things.
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.
STR8UP said:So yea, as Rollo says, "Don't wish the game was easier, wish you were better" or something like that. There is ALWAYS room for improvement, looks and otherwise.
joekerr31 said:and you know, i use to buy into this. and its a great example of how the DJ matrix is simply the other side of the same coin.
what im beginning to think, strongly at that, is that becoming better at the game doesn't make you better, it just makes you more a part of the game.
im saying perhaps by 'unplugging' from the game you enter into a whole different way of experiencing life - and could it be one that delivers everything you could ever want.
sounds crazy, but unplugging from 'the game' is what im talking about, all facets of it. it doesn't mean to stop living, in fact the opposite. it means to start living, but without all these rules and concepts of how to behave - to be authentic in yoru experience of life.
but to do this its a 3 step process like i describe above.
Impossible. Unless you retire to a cabin in the middle of Alaska where a bush plane has to fly in your mac and cheese every week.joekerr31 said:sounds crazy, but unplugging from 'the game' is what im talking about, all facets of it. it doesn't mean to stop living, in fact the opposite. it means to start living, but without all these rules and concepts of how to behave - to be authentic in yoru experience of life.
What's the point in disqualifying yourself before you even MEET this girl?Mr.Positive said:You start living life in the now. Focus on bettering yourself as a man, for yourself, strive to be the best YOU that you can be, but not to impress some HB!
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.