"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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Playboy article: Pick--up Lines That Have Actually Worked

"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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Amusing.

When I first met my girlfriend she said "I'm used to pain" in a happy way, it was just such a fvcked up thing to say that it really intrigued me. She wasn't even consciously trying to pick me up, it just randomly came out of her and that made her even more interesting.
 

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I always thought that whoever came up with the "You're my girlfriend for the next five minutes" line was pretty clever, I've always thought that was a good line. Sets up a non-platonic frame without being crude or serious. But I would NEVER use it, it's such a CLICHE now, straight from the Mystery playbook and sounds like it. If it wasn't so well known I would.
 

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Amusing.

When I first met my girlfriend she said "I'm used to pain" in a happy way, it was just such a fvcked up thing to say that it really intrigued me. She wasn't even consciously trying to pick me up, it just randomly came out of her and that made her even more interesting.
Well, was she?


I always thought that whoever came up with the "You're my girlfriend for the next five minutes" line was pretty clever, I've always thought that was a good line. Sets up a non-platonic frame without being crude or serious. But I would NEVER use it, it's such a CLICHE now, straight from the Mystery playbook and sounds like it. If it wasn't so well known I would.
I think you can use such lines to great success if you adapt them to the situation, but not cold & out of the blue.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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