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.
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.
Why are you moving to China of all countries? Didn't you just move back home from Taiwan?zinc4 said:I could care less if the girl is BPD as i generally just look for short flings and one night stands. And what is FOB stand for?
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.
my advice is the clubs in Shanghai are way way too loud… wear ear protection. Check out M2 when you are in Shanghai. The only part I hate about it is people keep walking into you and knocking you out of balance -- bad clubbing etiquette. Smokes are bad as well (I hate clubs full of cigarette smells).zinc4 said:Can anyone tell me what the dating/clubbing scene is in Shanghai and Chengdu and/or China in general and what to expect from gaming women?
(Fresh Off The Boat) only applies when you are inside the West.I could care less if the girl is BPD as i generally just look for short flings and one night stands. And what is FOB stand for?
:rockon:Oh, I know why. Every time he starts to read this thread he blows his load and has to go change his shorts.
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.