Got myself into sticky situation, competing with another guy for a hot chick. He's rich; I'm powerful. Avoiding loss of face means I can't back down now. I'd just like an assessment of the odds so I know what kind of battle I'm fighting. In a competition of this sort, who usually wins: the one who can buy her expensive things or the one who can introduce her to ex-Cabinet members?
"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.
Money or Power?
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"I just moved here from Florida."
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
alphawolfx
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The one who makes her feel the most attraction.
Fenderules
Master Don Juan
well fist off.....it is. i mean you will attract more women cause you open up for the gold diggers. It shows confidence as well
Fenderules
Master Don Juan
money=power
"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.
Devestator
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How are you more powerful than him?
It depemds what the chick is after. If she is a mercenary, obviously she wouldn't give a damn about power. Mercenarys prefer men who inherited their wealth, because they are easier to manipulate. If a man is powerful, that means he is dangerous. So a mercenary may not want to mess with that.
Alpine
Master Don Juan
Ross Jeffries said something that stuck with me and when you think about it he's absolutely right (about something atleast).
Influence is the key. With influence you can get money and influence those with power. There's not much you can't achieve without a lot of influence.
Influence is the key. With influence you can get money and influence those with power. There's not much you can't achieve without a lot of influence.
I'm more powerful than him in that Iwhile I lack his personal wealth (or rather parental wealth that they let him use) I do control a political organization, I have connections in Congress and the last President's cabinet, and I'm the one whose work has been covered by the state newspapers.
“The 22 Rules That Flip the Script With Women… And How You Can Use Them Tonight”
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.
Rollo Tomassi
Master Don Juan
Wealth enforces will.
Power isn't what women find attractive, it's a man's status and the desire to become associated with that status. This is why attorneys and business executives get hot women in the same way drug lords and gang leaders do - status. Status implies security and that is her primary drive.
Power isn't what women find attractive, it's a man's status and the desire to become associated with that status. This is why attorneys and business executives get hot women in the same way drug lords and gang leaders do - status. Status implies security and that is her primary drive.
check_mate_kid_uk
Master Don Juan
you have got somthing wrong, it is not money or power, it is money equals power, confidence also equals power and so does being an alpha male.
Power is vital, weather through money, or confidence or being an alpha male, money on the otherhand is not vital it is just 1 possible componenet of power.
people think power and moeny are seprate, but money is a sub catogrey of power and is 1 way of getting that vital power.
Power is vital, weather through money, or confidence or being an alpha male, money on the otherhand is not vital it is just 1 possible componenet of power.
people think power and moeny are seprate, but money is a sub catogrey of power and is 1 way of getting that vital power.
biker_gixxer
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Forget money and power. What are you doing competing over a girl bro?
Bonhomme
Master Don Juan
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Status, personality, and looks, not necessarily in that order will attract a gal to the man. Money just attracts women to the money itself in absence of the above. Power usually implies status, at least to a great degree, but status can encompass much more.
But the point is well taken that your qualities will make the gal want to get with you, so you're the "wooee," rather than the "wooer," for lack of better phrasing.
Status, personality, and looks, not necessarily in that order will attract a gal to the man. Money just attracts women to the money itself in absence of the above. Power usually implies status, at least to a great degree, but status can encompass much more.
But the point is well taken that your qualities will make the gal want to get with you, so you're the "wooee," rather than the "wooer," for lack of better phrasing.
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
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.