"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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Money as debt

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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ketostix

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Yeah that's pretty interesting. Regardless of fiat or backed money, I'm not sure why we'd want private bankers issuing money with interest. But I'm not sure I'd trust the government any more than private bankers.
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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Don't you love that the best quotes in the movie were those from people who worked for the Federal Reserve?
 

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"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."
- Herodotus

It's inevitable, in distant future there will be only one goverment. Money cedes to be a problem and is not loaned to existence.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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So what was the take-home message of the original video? Don't borrow money?

With no take-home message, it becomes a "yes.... and?"
 

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Ok so the video says that a few top people in the bank control the money. How does one get there :p.
 

TooColdUlrick

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azanon said:
So what was the take-home message of the original video? Don't borrow money?

With no take-home message, it becomes a "yes.... and?"
...to use debt (other peoples money) to buy productive assets, and keep a close eye on your balance sheet. the winners are ones whose assets rise (inflation adjusted, risk adjusted, tax adjusted) at a greater rate than their borrowing cost.

bankers are evil. they lend you money to buy things. pure EVIL. :crazy:

the losers use debt (other peoples money) to have parties or to make ends meet.
 
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