apocolipto
Senior Don Juan
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Lol, the part that stood out is the scaffolding. Did you see it happen?
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
Nope, just heard about it.apocolipto said:Lol, the part that stood out is the scaffolding. Did you see it happen?
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.
"We are what we repeatedly do, excellence therefore is not an act but a habit"apocolipto said:I also have that book, :habits of highly effective people. Just haven't read it. I'm not into that type of books. Although, I defnitley see the use in it. Review it for us, maybe?
And my friend uses orracutane. Looks weird.
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.
This is you being stuck in your head. You need to remain in the now. I know you know how important that is.NorwegianDJ said:The weed starts to make me feel odd. I go on an introprospective journey.
I feel so little. So inferior. Never in my whole life have I felt so insignificant. It felt as if everything I believed; all the values I had; everything I knew, was taken away from me. I questioned Robin, "It feels like everything up until now, I haven't been myself and this is just me. Or I've been myself up until now and now I'm not." It was a weird feeling. I couldn't speak. It felt as if all that confidence was sucked out of me. I questioned myself. Do I really have no core confidence? Am I not centered? Am I hiding my real self behind band-aids? Is what I think I know real?
I beg to differ. I think you're just simplifying terms here. It's not just 'being introverted' and 'being extroverted'. I think it's an insight to my core weaknesses. There's more to a person than his fluid spiritual state.LearningSlowly said:This is you being stuck in your head. You need to remain in the now. I know you know how important that is.
Remain in the now, that is where true spirituality lies.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
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.