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Master Don Juan
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The paperback is like 450 pages, so the audio version must be nothing compared. Get the paperback and do the excercises.Mindgamez said:NDJ it's 1h30 long![]()
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.
The paperback is like 450 pages, so the audio version must be nothing compared. Get the paperback and do the excercises.Mindgamez said:NDJ it's 1h30 long![]()
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.
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.
Hey man. That girl sucks for taking a stab at you like that, but there's always a kernel of truth in every criticism that really hurts. It seems like this one stung.Mindgamez said:Frizzy hair HB7 told me during class : Hey, are you going to be mature someday? My friends behind me said : Ohhhh! Ouch... Their remark kind of threw me off track. I couldn't smile. I forced it and said : Well, if you mean to stop teasing you well, I won't. I thought about it and she's not my type. She's too serious, has very low patience and gets annoyed or mad easily.
Cheers. That helped me.LearningSlowly said:Hey man. That girl sucks for taking a stab at you like that, but there's always a kernel of truth in every criticism that really hurts. It seems like this one stung.
Maturity comes from directness about your feeling. You're touching girls, which is great, and exactly what you should be practicing, but it's coming from this kindergarten-crush sort of zone. You tease them, and are coming from a sexual place, but you refuse to allow your sexuality through, and are therefore incongruent. Your teasing, which seems to be childish, and have no adult sexuality to it, becomes annoying.
I hope that helps some.
It's not easy to become more sexual with girls you already know, you'll only mess it up. Cold approach to get some new girls to practice with, and be ready to take advantage of a new school next year.
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.
shiit That's what it must be. Girl is showing great attraction then she's like "oh i gotta listen to my music now" and just sticks in her head phones. I should have said something, but instead i look at her stupidly and walk away. definitely a **** test..Jack Wealthy said:Nearly every behaviour you mentioned and questioned was a **** test. Examples: "she tried to isolate me at times and she wanted me to take the subway with her and go to her direction. We were going different directions... I'm not that needy and she's not pretty."
You passed. You did what you want.
"I patted her shoulder, said hi. She quickly looked at me, made a 0.3 second eye contact, and then she continued talking to her friend. Claudia never does that. I think she did the same some days ago. She could at least say hi politely, but she just ignored me completely. I just walked off."
You failed. You should have cut in. If you think it is rude, SAY SOMETHING.
Literally this exact thing happened to me with this chick called HBHot last week. I said "HEY! HEY! Are you ignoring me?" (It was a question but I didn't curl my sentence up at all) She said no. I said "Because you're f*cking **** at it." She laughed.
Notice how I passed? I did what I wanted to do, despite her reaction. Unless it is a severe negative reaction then she wants you. Assume attraction.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
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.