Desdinova
Master Don Juan
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I would personally like to slap this motherfvcker across the face.
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.
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.
I'll help you.I would personally like to slap this motherfvcker across the face.
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.
women with beards... is nasty!Didnt really listen it all but it looks strange to see a man that moves his eyes and eyebrows so much while talking.
Ehhh, maybe in modern civilized societies somewhat, but territories are conquered and nations are built by amoral men. What is right and moral is subjective. I'm sure the Brits thought it was wrong, when a bunch of radicals dumped their tea in the Boston harbor. It's the same reason I don't sympathize with the native or slave arguments. Raiding, raping, pillaging and enslaving has been going on since the dawn of man. Do you honestly think a few decades of technology changes what is in every man? It's easy to forget where we come from with all these creature comforts afforded to us by who? Amoral men.The issue is that the media portrays masculinity as violence, abuse, power, greed, and so many other horrible things. Those are not tied to masculinity at all, those are weak minded individuals seeking to control others.
A little too simplistic. People have a dual nature. We are where we're at as a result of both moral and immoral acts. It's not right to say the only good things we have are strictly the result of evil. If men were pure evil, they'd never have stopped the raping and pillaging to work on things like medicine, building civilization, etc.It's easy to forget where we come from with all these creature comforts afforded to us by who? Amoral men.
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.
Yea, I agree for the most part. Amoral actions pave the way and like I said, right and wrong, evil and good are subjective. Survival is the only right, imo. Thinking things couldn't get that "simple" again is naive. For some ppl, it still is really that simple. I like to think that I have morals and values for the most part, but you put a man in a position, where he has to do what he has to do to make it, you see how much your theoretical and metaphorical morals and values hold weight.A little too simplistic. People have a dual nature. We are where we're at as a result of both moral and immoral acts. It's not right to say the only good things we have are strictly the result of evil. If men were pure evil, they'd never have stopped the raping and pillaging to work on things like medicine, building civilization, etc.
I agree with everything except the bold. I think good/evil is pretty iron-clad. Society shames certain things given the social climate, but what's right and wrong is always still there, just twisted.Yea, I agree for the most part. Amoral actions pave the way and like I said, right and wrong, evil and good are subjective. Survival is the only right, imo. Thinking things couldn't get that "simple" again is naive. For some ppl, it still is really that simple. I like to think that I have morals and values for the most part, but you put a man in a position, where he has to do what he has to do to make it, you see how much your theoretical and metaphorical morals and values hold weight.
Do you think the terrorists aboard Flight 93 represented masculinity any less than the passengers? I don't think good/evil are so ironclad. Ideology and the struggle over ideals has been there since day 1. I don't believe in good vs evil as much as I believe in us vs them.I agree with everything except the bold. I think good/evil is pretty iron-clad. Society shames certain things given the social climate, but what's right and wrong is always still there, just twisted.
As far as survival, I don't think that's a right at all. You can control 80% of what happens to you, not 100%. The only freedom we really have is how we mentally respond to what happens to us. No one can take that away from you.
Again, we live in a very comfortable bubble, in which a huge portion of the world doesn't know. This isn't the reality for many. Do you care to take a guess as to how and why we are "blessed"/able to live this way?As far as survival, I don't think that's a right at all. You can control 80% of what happens to you, not 100%. The only freedom we really have is how we mentally respond to what happens to us. No one can take that away from you.