"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
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.
Men's NCAA Championship Predictions
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"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.
Aztec
Master Don Juan
Kerensky
Master Don Juan
Because I live there.
And like 50% of our school goes to Urbana.
Don Pablo
Senior Don Juan
PRMoon
Master Don Juan
they've only lost once this year so if (when) they win the NC they'll have had the most wins of any team in NCAA history
"She's Out of Your League"
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.
Don Pablo
Senior Don Juan
PRMoon
Master Don Juan
20 dollar bet won him 370 (350 plus his 20 dollar wager back)
Bonhomme
Master Don Juan
NC was just a bit better ... at least that night.
Funny that the Sagarin computer rankings had NC #1, just a bit ahead of Illinois. I think Duke or Louisville was #3. I think Mich State was better than Duke, at least at the end of the year.
After those crazy regional final games, it all seemed so anticlimactic.