"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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Learn karate. Bruce Lee's form is appealing.

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to nearly any woman. The Hulk's muscles are not. :) without steroids, and geting fat (ie, bulked up) and then leaned down, while working your butt off, is of little benefit, really. Women dig men who really CAN kick ass. :) When I ran a karate school, I could **** any woman who took 5 classes a week for 2 full weeks, 1 hour each, no bs. There's just something about small class or individual training at such stuff that turns them on. It didn't matter if she was married or had a guy, either. If you can get 4 man or smaller classes, from a decent instructor, you can be a bad mofo in 10 months or less, 4 hours per week of hard work, if you will apply yourself. While such training might well cost you $10 an hour or more, you will never regret it.
 

"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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I dunno that Bruce Lee really could've kicked ass though. He was only 4'10" and an actor.

He was a millionaire though and that's what they loved.
 

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his punch took .05 second to reach full extention, fully TWICE as fast as the typical black belt's, who is twice as fast as the average guy. Gouge his eye, and it's OVER guy.
 

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don't said:
his punch took .05 second to reach full extention, fully TWICE as fast as the typical black belt's, who is twice as fast as the average guy. Gouge his eye, and it's OVER guy.
I've actually heard it took less time. I've also heard Bruce battled dragons in far off lands barehanded and carried seven old ladies out of a burning building at once. A lot crap is spewed in the martial arts world, very little of it provable. Bruce Lee is perhaps the biggest victim/beneficiary of that.

Bruce Lee wasn't practicing gouging eyes. You can mime gouging eyes all you want in the air but it means nothing during game time. One thing Bruce didn't do like the Gracies did, or Oyama did, or Lebell did, or Urquidez did, and a million boxers good and bad, is test his skills out and prove his superiority.
 

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My favorite Bruce Lee quote, other than "bags don't hit back," is when he said "the best style is no style." He was 30 years ahead of his time, and what he was describing was mma. There is no one superior martial art; the UFC has demonstrated that. A flowing (like water:)) blend of styles, based upon the weaknesses your opponent, was actually the best style.

Although it's not as popular these days, there's nothing wrong at all with good karate. Lyoto Machida brought the style back more into fashion with his success in the UFC with a mostly pure karate style, which is rarely seen in mma today. But I can attest that the OP's point also is very true with other martial arts, like jiu-jitsu, boxing/kickboxing, and mma.
 

"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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Hate to tell you this, but karate does, absolutely, not give you Bruce´s body.
He had it in ye olde weight lifting way, and did use steroids.
 
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