Poonani Maker
Master Don Juan
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You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
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.
Bunch of know it allsDon't EVER buy a woman a ring. People are so Rude, my God.
Each of these people stood there like they were looking smart and the expert in money and gold was the idiot.Bunch of know it alls
It's kinda Emotion before Logic for some of the women who may have thought Mark was a "creep" or something. A couple, with the concept of "value" being discussed, were trying to lift in undertones of sex in meaning of his approach. You can't argue with women once their emotions take over. Their logic only lasts for them maybe 2 minutes, then they slip back in to emotions. The dumbas5 men here thought they were being "smart" or "shrewd." This is 90% of big city people who do not have the Time to stop and think when an opportunity crosses their paths. All of them thought their time was more valuable. I can talk and talk and talk and talk with a trailer park person and not think nothin of the time lost. Many poor people are somewhat bewildered that someone like me, a busy man, will take enormous amounts of time to talk to them, whether it's an unhealthy low-grade minimum wage grocery store clerk or a disabled trailer park individual. I don't really Want anything out of them, just real conversation and being able to handle weirdness or quirkiness - I actually handle weirdness or quirkiness better than I handle the elites or country club people who with numerous pretensions, I cannot stand to be around the materialism, the dishonest Talk.Each of these people stood there like they were looking smart and the expert in money and gold was the idiot.
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.
When he showed them the jeweler they could've asked to accompany him to the shop to have it evaluated.If something like that happened to me I wouldn't buy it either, seems very shady - if the coin was worth $50 why would someone be trying to get rid of it on the street for half price instead of selling it at that jeweler?
It would seem like a waste of time, it would have taken less time to sell that thing in the shop than pester passerbys into buying it; as such the whole situation would seem like a complete scam to me.When he showed them the jeweler they could've asked to accompany him to the shop to have it evaluated.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.