"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Look at cave drawings from the Neanderthal era. Many of them were done in a movie-frame style of animation across the wall. They would depict the story, frame-by-frame, of a buffalo kill, for example. The concept of flip-card movies has been known for centuries.

Now, can you explain why an obviously frivolous, just-for-fun thread would elicit such serious, literal responses?
 

"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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Hahaha... I think your recent response was FAR more serious than my extremely legit question.

You make a post asking people for videos, saying "must have been made any time between 1600 and 1959". I don't think it's that ridiculous for me to question what you meant when the first film was created in the mid-late 1800s.

Now maybe you can explain how I can post Neanderthal cave drawings to sosuave.net?
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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Atom Smasher said:
Look at cave drawings from the Neanderthal era. Many of them were done in a movie-frame style of animation across the wall. They would depict the story, frame-by-frame, of a buffalo kill, for example. The concept of flip-card movies has been known for centuries.

Now, can you explain why an obviously frivolous, just-for-fun thread would elicit such serious, literal responses?
hahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahah
 

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Pdubb75, keep watching this thread. You might get it eventually.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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DJDamage said:
GREAT find, Damage. I never knew about that one. Gotta get me some of that "Nose Powder".

That's an incredible restoration job they did on this film. I almost prefer it a little scratched up and in fast-motion.

I once attended a stunning showing of Chaplain's masterpiece, "City Lights". It was a newly restored, flawless print, all actors moving at normal speed, with a live orchestra playing the original music Chaplain himself wrote for this film.

In other words, I experienced the film exactly like the audience back then did (in normal speed with a new print and live music) and the experience was positively stunning. The power of that film is lost on us today because of the quick, mechanical movements, the wrong sound track, and the tiny TVs we watch them on. Chaplain's genius came to a head on that film.
 
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