LearningSlowly
Master Don Juan
Mature, comfortable game. Your general attitude reminded me of myself on my most successful nights. Great job, man.
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.
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.
And that right there, gentlemen, is how awesome abundance is.NorwegianDJ said:I genuinely wonder who I'll end up with. Kinda makes me sad that I'll eventually have to pick one.
Luxury problems, hey.amohield said:And that right there, gentlemen, is how awesome abundance is.
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.
Spiritually, I believe in destiny. Free will exists, you can make whatever decisions you want, but every choice is the right choice, and it's the decision that was written at the beginning of time.NorwegianDJ said:Im smiling right now, both you and I know that I can easily beat this.
It's just that something feels missing.
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.
I do agree partly. Destiny? If so, then a lot of people are destined to be nobody and unconciously serve others. Destiny might exist in some form, as in the uniformity of the universe, but I won't ever use destiny as an excuse for inaction.LearningSlowly said:Spiritually, I believe in destiny. Free will exists, you can make whatever decisions you want, but every choice is the right choice, and it's the decision that was written at the beginning of time.
There is a path of least resistance. This path comes from hard work, initiative, foresight and being in the now (and probably many things related to those).
Unfortunately, try as we might (and we should try) we can't stay on that path all the time.
But these down-phases, the pain and feeling of being lost, anger or whatever it is, those are all destined too. You need to have this problem so that you're ready for the next stage in your life.
Don't worry, man. Just do the things you know you should do, and you'll be able to deal with everything when it comes.
I just read this man. You have no idea how much this helped. I'm gonna go post in my journal, but first off don't ignore this problem and think it will go away if you focus on motivation or working out.NorwegianDJ said:Sup fvckers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrdpliMfoAM
My mind is fvcking up. I don't know what to do or ****, anything. I care too much, I care too little. ****ing hell. Non-caring mixed with lack of intent does not produce good results in general life situations.
I seem to have lost most motivation for school. It's so pointless. I sit there and look at my classmates; all so oblivious. It's like I'm here alone in a world full of sheeps. I'm always halfway out the door when I sit there; waiting for a trigger to drag me out of that state and the classroom. I could fight someone. Right here, right now. I would not mind; I would not lose.
I think I need to vent my frustration. The closest description that I can identify with right now is that unhappy pickup guy persona. I know that it might help right now to just dive into some old hookups.. but I fear that I'll feel horribly empty. It's at this point in life that everything can fall, or you can push through and overcome.
I just can't seem to come up with a solution. To me it seems logical that if I just work a ton on things that need to be worked on, (hw, study, long term hw, business, SAT) and did things necessary (work out, meditate, girls), then everything would be fine. However, that seems like a lot of stress in my mind...
I have a much better life than 90%+ of people my age, but something vital is lacking. Today my english teacher chatted with me alone. My name had came up in the administration meeting (I helped a friend of mine cheat yesterday), and most of them had noticed how I seem to have just stopped caring.
I told her what was on my mind. I even told her I had a journal. Whatever. I just wanna go outside and BE FREE. FVCK this illusion of freedom that we have. I cried. For the first time in... forever. I need to vent frustration and confusion somewhere.
Im gonna cut this hair, get some food, and work out. Today.
Agree wholeheartedly. Thanks bro.Jack Wealthy said:I just read this man. You have no idea how much this helped. I'm gonna go post in my journal, but first off don't ignore this problem and think it will go away if you focus on motivation or working out.
Last year after I left the forum and started getting laid, I lost all motivation for school. That all happened during the exam period so I halfway bombed the whole of last year, one teacher illegally changed my scores so I can stay in her class. I went from a genius student to a douche who was going through the motions. As soon as Ash broke up with me I felt lost like you described, I feel like your Violet has you in a similar scenario. She didn't want people knowing, didn't want to see you as much as you want her, talks about other guys...
Anyway, long story short I ended up feeling exactly as you described. I used to listen to a lot of that music as well. And this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq8PyyMbrYQ
Basically it was because I had settled. I was like 20% as awesome as I wanted to be at first. All this bull**** I was only about as cool as a wallflower, no point in having anything if you settle for it.
I'm not sure this is clear exactly but basically I think there is some root problem leading to your unhappiness. Something you may not have accepted that is making you unhappy, even though you can beast the **** out of everything it creates this.. shift between parts of you where.. I felt like there was something else but I was too scared to go for it. I'm finally going for it and sometimes I get these moments. But I'm not ever going to ignore them again, I know they mean an important choice has come and I have to go the way to progress. No matter the short term harm I know I might have to abandon certain people this time. I'm willing to do that. Maybe you'll have to be as well.
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.