"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.
Point of Life
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"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.
btownbuck2012
Master Don Juan
Atom Smasher
Master Don Juan
Sounds good on paper but when the world is full of enemies that want to exterminate (KILL) you, the point of life becomes the preservation of life. That means making sure you have a lot of great big, expensive, bad-ass guns and are willing to use them. I'm speaking of nations here.btownbuck2012 said:
We could and should all do more to feed the poor, but to take all our defense funds and feed the poor with them pretty much guarantees that we won't be around next year to feed them.
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
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.
for what exactly?
Bible_Belt
Master Don Juan
StevieD said:
"Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did I the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place... Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place. "
Atom Smasher
Master Don Juan
To share my faith with those who are interested, and to be gracious and non-offensive to those who are not.
Secondly, to try to leave the world a little bit of a better place for my having been here.
"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
omkara
Senior Don Juan
The point I'm trying to make here is that, often there are those who have all the material success, but end up not seeing any point in it. For example my brother is a successful doctor but he is afraid of death and appears to have no underlying belief system other than materialism. And then there are those who find meaning in life but struggle to be successful. It's funny how it works out like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism
Make of it what you want, enjoy the ride for as long as you can
