"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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Is there any good music nowadays?

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I don't know about you guys, but today's musics are complete crap. The songs that they come out don't even make sense. Look at Billboard top100: London Bridge, SexyBack, Get Up, Crazy, etc. Who in their right mind would listen to those songs.

Please tell me, where are all the good songs go?
 

"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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Francisco d'Anconia

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It all sounds the same (bad) to me. I stick with old school, but I'm a geezer... :D
 

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If you're looking at the Billboard for good music, you're looking in the very worst of places. Not only does it represent some of the very worst music ever produced, but the ratings are in fact determined more by politics and money than actual sales/listeners. It's meaningless. There's some good music out there, but it's mostly indie/obscure, and probably nothing that people will still be talking about ten years from now. There has been a serious dryspell in music for a while now, especially when it comes to new acts. It sucks. But then again, so does the music industry.
 

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I agree with you, except for crazy. I think that song is great, but I get the feeling that I would hate it if I hadn't started to like it before it hit the states. nowadays I just listen to country or indie
 

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Good music?

Get sat Radio (serious not xm)
There's like over 50 channels and there is always something good
playing.

Personally I like rock or metal,
all that crap they play on normal radio
or at clubs just makes me sick ...

I'm sure many of you can relate.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

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.

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Wee

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Good songs that are famous - that is all in the past. It ain't gonna get any better. As far as rap music goes, though I don't listen to it much, all they do is say an action. Lay down is probably the next rap hit. Or put it up. Every single thing I hear is just a verb. Boring. Show me a rap video that doesn't have a girl or a car in it. Can't? At least we know they are all original.
(btw I know girls and cars are common, maybe I should say "girl dressed slutty dancing dirty or some sexy car that I can't afford".)

With rock it is even worse. The best guitarists all came before the 90s and now adays any guy that can play a power chord is a musician. Plus, if I hear another prepubesent nasal voice kid singing lead vocals for a "rock band" I might just kill myself. If you are looking for talent, the top billboards ain't gonna have it. It IS still around though.
 

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Very few bands nowadays meet my standards of good. But like a dumbass I listen to them anyway! There's just nothing like the guitar in Enter Sandman.
 

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People have always complained about the youth, and the old days, people have always complained about new music and praised yesterday's music . . . see where I'm going?

Now if you want to witness new quality music entertainment, wait for new MJ supposedly coming out on 2007, I suspect that it will on early 2008.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.

I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.

Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules.  Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.

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Wee said:
... Plus, if I hear another prepubesent nasal voice kid singing lead vocals for a "rock band" I might just kill myself.
Tell me about it. It must be part generational, as SamePendo suggested, but there are some objectve ways of measuring the quality of music; and by those measures most of the new stuff does indeed suck.

Compared to say, the 50s, 60s, or 70s, there is very little original going on (let alone picked up by the major labels).
 

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SamePendo said:
People have always complained about the youth, and the old days, people have always complained about new music and praised yesterday's music . . . see where I'm going?

Now if you want to witness new quality music entertainment, wait for new MJ supposedly coming out on 2007, I suspect that it will on early 2008.
I'm sorry, did you say 'MJ'?

He is a god, whether you like him or not, but man that guy is an aging freakshow these days...
 

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Nox: Which bands would you consider to be "good"

You can't ask for reccommendations without giving any ideas as to what you like
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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Skilla_Staz

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Hed PE.

Not for the faint of heart.
 

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You can't beat a good old acoustic.
 

"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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