"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Overcoming Creative Block

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It's a common problem for artists. You sit down to a blank canvas, wanting to make some art, but no ideas come to mind.

One approach to solve this problem is by always having an idea before you sit down. The best ideas usually come when you're doing something else, like taking a shower or walking.

Another approach, which I discovered for myself, is to take a photo of your food. You could take a photo of other things, but food is the easiest source of random shapes. Pareidolia is finding meaningful patterns from randomness. You can then eat the food, turning pareidolia into a tasty game. Bring the photo into Krita (or whatever is your drawing program of choice) and draw on top of the photo of the shapes that you find most inspiring. Then throw away the photo and continue the drawing.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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