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.
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.
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.
It plays a huge factor (good genes).Do you believe that looks are almost what matters to women regarding men, especially in terms of them (women) seeking a relationship?
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
If you plan on keeping them for a long time, being wanted and dreamed of as a father for their kids, ofc looks matters a lot.
Most of us in here are not gonna be instagram famous or other kinds of celebreties any time soon, which means we dont have the pulling power to snag a girl several levels above us AND keep her for several years without getting a sht storm and her cheating with better looking guys simply because she can.
Pick up was designed to teach nerds to dream of getting the hot chick and settle down with her. Now you can still get a woman above your level, but its not gonna be many levels higher if you are a 5 looks wise and everything else is pretty much average except your game.
Here is the problem, a HB8 can get a guy that is an 8 with a good job and good genetics, so why would she not? Its mathematics. What can you offer that would put you, lets say a 6, up to an 8 and make her believe that you deserve her? Because not only do we all want a hot chick, we also want her to obey us. Now why would any human logically obey someone who is not at the same level or above?
The easy trick is to a find a woman who is below your level and marry her and settle for that. The funny thing is that most people think they are entitled to something of higher value than they are themselves. Dont get me wrong, many have potential, but TODAY what is your SMV and what can you offer a woman? Most couples or men and women walking side by side are actually on the same level even look wise, its COMPLETELY natural.
Sometimes we have to go back to the drawing board and look at ourselves and our competition as it is. When you enter the gym during rush hours, all those guys who out muscle you by a significant margin or just look better physique wise overall are probably beating you on Tinder as we speak. Use that as motivation to becoming bigger and stronger, eat more and clearner everyday. Its actually just like going to war, everything looks fairly peaceful but its not. Its a war everyday between which male gets to procreate with the most attractive females like it always has and always will be.
You need a better physique than most men, you want the "wow factor". Why does this work? Because it requires a war like mentality of eating and training all the time which most men dont have, ergo you show a strong mentality. You also want a better job than most men and certainly women. This is just where the game STARTS, if you dont have this you are already out.
Even women with higher education and high status jobs will continue to say that money and education, job etc is not that important. WATCH how the same woman "randomly" falls in love with a man with at least the same level career.
There is no magic trick, there is only evolution and survival of the fittest. Can you get your dirty penis inside a woman that is several levels above you once a year if you go out and desperatly try to game? Sure. Would it be better to invest in yourself in stead of all those late nights boozing around, poisoning your system to perhaps get lucky one seldom time? Probably, but its not instantly funny and rewarding.
Get yourself a great physique and a great job. Try to develop a social network to the best of your ability along the way, but physique and education/job always first. I know people who have done this, and they dont understand the hustle about dating, understanding women. Why? These men are scarce so women even contact them on Facebook. There is always exceptions but I would say this is the general idea, at least my ideology for now.
Looks will get you noticed. If they don't see your value then it won't matter.Do you believe that looks are almost what matters to women regarding men, especially in terms of them (women) seeking a relationship?
Yes, if they were not interested in what kind of man you are and go solely on your looks, sh|t tests wouldn’t exist.You should have looks at a certain baseline level, but I actually think i's probably more personality than looks.
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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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.