"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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mr. kennedy

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I started reading his book. A few questions. Did someone combine all his posts and make a book about it without his consent? Also, when Pook posted here, did he only start threads or did he also reply to other people's questions?

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"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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mr. kennedy said:
I started reading his book. A few questions. Did someone combine all his posts and make a book about it without his consent? Also, when Pook posted here, did he only start threads or did he also reply to other people's questions?

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From looking at the book, it does look like it was made after he had left the community.
Maybe they didn't want those good posts to go to waste or whatever. Either way, it's quite a useful source, so I'm glad I was able to read it.

The book has links to the posts that Pook made, so if you click on them you'll see that some are his own threads and some are replies to other people's threads. However, Pook seems to state that his posts were predominantly for himself so that he could get his head straight.

You need to be aware however that the internet and this community was much different in 2002.
 
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