She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
Oh, please. If you're by yourself and outnumbered, or the other guy has a gun, you could be Arnold himself but your chest can't deflect bullets, and real thugs know that. I don't know what world you live in, but its obviously very different from mine.
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.
Dumbass.
Stop crying like a chick; I was joking because every wimp on here is always talking this alpha shyt all the time.Marlimus said:
A poor Austrian immigrant who barely speaks english becomes the best bodybuilder in the world, becomes an action hero icon for almost a decade, makes hundreds of millions of dollars, has sex with the most beautiful women in the world, and becomes Governor of a state that, if it were to secede from the US, would be the fifth largest economy in the world?
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
Marlimus said:
So I guess Tom Cruise is an Alpha male too. Sure he's a little weird but at least he's got the balls to admit it and show everyone.SELF-MASTERY said:
I know, but STYLE isn't my leader or alpha gauge; He's a lil byatch.Marlimus said:
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
Microphone Fiend said:
I'm sorry to all the Canadians on this board but I cant resist this. Thats too funny, I used to have a running joke with a canadian friend of mine about how the worst he could do was beat me with a hockey stick. Thats good stuffflippinfreak said:
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.
Man that sucks. 600 bucks is nothing to a real dealer though, it's part of earning the territory being mugged. It gives you free reign to go back and kick the guys assdannowillbookem said:
i didnt even know the guy, so he got lucky he just happened to pick teh kid who unloaded all secondhand blow at a party. i had great margins too but after that i was just like what the hell am i doing this forflippinfreak said:Man that sucks. 600 bucks is nothing to a real dealer though, it's part of earning the territory being mugged. It gives you free reign to go back and kick the guys ass
I tried to deal before, I was like 13 and a total AFC. I got mugged three times in the same day. One guy did it right in my face, in front of like 30 people, I didn't even try to man up even though I was taller than him. I asked on of the bigger guys to help me, and they said they'd help if I sucked their c0cks, the guy stood up and walked away without looking back with all of his friends staring back laughing at me... I felt so tooled.