"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.

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That is an interesting thought about jenny symbolizing all women. Along those lines, it occurs to me that lieutenant dan losing his legs must symbolize the experience of the american military in vietnam.

Like i said on this thread years ago, the movie cuts out a lot of the story told by the book. Forrest is an idiot savant, like rainman. He is a chess genius and also a perfect physical specimen (tom hanks couldnt be everything). He as a character might symbolize all humanity in some sense. We can do great things without realizing how dumb we all collectively are.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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That is an interesting thought about jenny symbolizing all women. Along those lines, it occurs to me that lieutenant dan losing his legs must symbolize the experience of the american military in vietnam.

Like i said on this thread years ago, the movie cuts out a lot of the story told by the book. Forrest is an idiot savant, like rainman. He is a chess genius and also a perfect physical specimen (tom hanks couldnt be everything). He as a character might symbolize all humanity in some sense. We can do great things without realizing how dumb we all collectively are.
I didn't know Forrest was intended by the book to be a perfect physical specimen. That would explain how he smoked them on the football field. Was it University of Georgia or Auburn?
 

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So the real Forrest was a physical stud with unrealistically high morals?
I don't know that the book really regarded him as having that high of morals. He was a pro wrestler called "the dunce." Yet nasa let him be an astronaut, because he was rainman good at math equations. When his spaceship crash lands on an island of cannibals, he has to beat the chief at chess every day, under penalty of being eaten if he loses. The book made a lot of the savant irony, the idiot who could do anything.
 

"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.

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I don't know that the book really regarded him as having that high of morals. He was a pro wrestler called "the dunce." Yet nasa let him be an astronaut, because he was rainman good at math equations. When his spaceship crash lands on an island of cannibals, he has to beat the chief at chess every day, under penalty of being eaten if he loses. The book made a lot of the savant irony, the idiot who could do anything.
A rainman lol.
 

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Be rainman at getting pvssy.
A real rain maker at bedding hoes. So predictable and delectable. Mental Mastery is my forte, target bending them over cause I said so like a rainman in the game. Getting flushed and gushing while they in my presence. Always asking 'me what happened why do I feel this way?".. "Nothing ma, you just like me. '
 
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