"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.
Movie: Remember the Titans....listed as one of top 100 masculinity movies
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"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
oh yes, a younger Denzel Washington too. That little daughter kept on acting too.
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It really is a great movie. Amazon has it to rent. Well worth the 4 bucks. I have the VHS (don't laugh).
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Awesome! I've never rented on the internet. Maybe if I get one of those 7-11 visa cards, I'll rent it.
I have Conan the Barbarian and Live at Pompeii-Pink Floyd and my hs graduation on vhs, no player anymore though so no laughs from me. At least you probably still have a player to watch it on.
"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
on a art of masculinity blog I get delivered to my email. I screenshotted the ones I'd think that I might like. I'll go look at the screenshots and there should be a date in details on the shot and the email/blog date would have been delivered that day or within a few days before that date.
its too bad it wasn't your cup of tea. 'Maltese Falcon' was on that list(your profile name suggests you like that masculine movie)
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TBH, you prob. can get the movie free from the library. You'd be amazed how many movies the library has. Never knew until recently. They also have an online version where you can stream for free, all you need is your library card usually.
oh yes, I was trying to entertain my last love in the last month before the end with my hoopla/library card movie watching. I guess I blocked that out of my memory temporarily. Thanks for reminder.
Some that I still want to see for the first time or again from that list of masculine movies:
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
The Great Escape
Dirty Harry
First Blood
The Endless Summer
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
The Pride of The Yankees
The Natural
Hoosiers
Cinderella Man
Rocky
Chariots of Fire
Spartacus
Enter the Dragon
The Karate Kid
Seven Samurai
There will be Blood
Fight Club
Braveheart
The Last of the Mohicans
The Shootist
High Noon
Unforgiven
Shane
True Grit
The Searchers
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
"Jeremiah Johnson"
The Grapes of Wrath
Malcolm X
Mississippi Burning
Ben Hur
Lawrence of Arabia
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Glory
Patton:A Salute to a Rebel
Schindler's List
Zulu
The Bicycle Thief
The Outsiders
They Called Him "Fast Eddie"
Cool Hand Luke
The Sting
All the President's Men
A Streetcar Named Desire
On the Waterfront
The Longest Day
Bullitt
Rebel Without a Cause
Citizen Kane
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
From Here to Eternity
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Best Years of Our Lives
North by Northwest
Gentleman's Agreement
Vertigo
Double Indemnity
12 Angry Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
The African Queen
All Quiet On the Western Front
Chinatown
The Manchurian Candidate
The French Connection
The Bourne Ultimatum
Dr. No
The Untouchables
Gangs of New York
The Godfather
Die Hard
Das Boot
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest
It's A Wonderful Life
A River Runs Through It
In the Heat of the Night
A Raisin in The Sun
Star Wars
The Right Stuff
Apollo 13
Indiana Jones &the LastCrusaders
The Iron Giant
The Lord of The Rings
Ghostbusters
Rudy
Gandhi
Dead Poets' Society
Old Yeller
The other ones not included I've seen or rewatched or remember clearly since reading this list
I think I may have seen Glengarry Glen Ross. I will look him and it up.
Yes, I definitely saw Glengarry Glen Ross before.
A powerful movie on sales and what a great cast of characters. I learned sales techniques from that movie and once considered being a real estate agent myself.
I had an unusual amount of people tell me to get into real estate sales over the years.
My Dad and brother warned me against it-isolated in empty houses with strangers; meetups in alcohol establishments; have to be available all days of the week and then I learned about the porn fetish with female agents , omg.
The clips I just saw got my heart beating fast though. Same feeling when I dared open that bodybuilder at the gym recently, or when watching a Grant Cardone video where he negotiates price. There might be some future in sales for me, at least, further developing my game in life.....I do get a rush from it.
I'll look up the other Marmot movies.
I've seen House of Games but not Redbelt yet.
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
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that's right. Bring back these examples. It's fantastic idea to expose yourself to strong masculinity examples from movies. It's exhilarating seeing a proper order to things again.
I'll find a way to watch each of these movies.
300 is awesome. All those movies that have training and physical conditioning in them are powerfully masculine.
Then combine that with strategems of battle. Lots of valuable lessons.
fantastic list!! screenshotting this
I'm just now watching 300.
Powerful stuff. Great soundtrack and optics in this movie.
Show no fear. Sword, spear and shield. Occupation: Spartan
"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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How so?
An author named Alain de Botton mentioned the free P hub with the videos available. Went to the site and saw that was a common theme under Reality category I think.How so?
love hoopla
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The 1949 film based on the biblical story of Samson And Delilah is worth watching.
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Hedy Lamarr & Victor Mature.
"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.