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.
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.
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.
You're right man and I know it. I just don't know how to get to that for once.Being around the community for an year,having 188 post and not having kissed a girl? I'm sorry,but WTF?
What do you mean by loose? What would you suggest instead?Those goals are so loose it's a joke.
I agree with libertine, take some action mate
Doesn't matter. If you want to go from the beginning, go from the beginning. Week 3 is hard though, definitely destroyed me.Pozitron said:So start the bootcamp from the begining? You said follow up but I didn't go through it fully till now. Say just.. I didn't go through it.
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.
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.
Eliminate them from your life. Pozitron, for you, this forum has become the excuse to not take action. The forum is no longer helping you. Facebook is even more useless.Pozitron said:What's the solution? How can I not be dependant on this forum, on my notes, on advice or some random thing I get the feeling I miss out on if I don' read? How? How to be free?
This affected me for the past 2 years.
What can I do about it?
Thank you for this. We share the same view. If I live this way I am ready anytime and anywhere... as a man should be. I wanna be a man.. that's a fulltime thing.. not like I"m a man now but later I'm not. Thats the natural way and the way it should be, right?There's no secret man. You just gotta do it. There's nothing else that will change you. Once you get the momentum going, keep the persistence and do not ever stop. Take SOLID decisions and stick to them! Do them anyway, and stop reading. Do NOT wait for the opportunity to come. There's no right or wrong moment to do it. Do not wait to know everything. Naturals learned all by themselves, by trying. You can't become a breakdancer only by watching tutorial videos. There's no way you can do it perfectly on the first try. You'll hurt yourself several times before doing your trick right. Same goes for life.
That's my way of seeing things. It's up to you broooh.
Exactly.. I want to know all the answers before writing the exam. Oh, I have some moves you know.. like what I did witht his girl: We talked and stuff. My train came in the subway. I said just turned my back on her and made 3 steps then I went straight back, I said bye whyle kissing her on just one side then turned and never look back. I could tell she didn't expect that. There are some actually.. bt as I will get to the real stuff I am sure I will find things that work for me.Trust me man, I know that feeling, you want all the answers before you write the exam, if you look at my journal I also had the same problem but I have solved it by writing my personal book and observe what works for ME! maybe you could try that. Trully speaking, if it wasn't for my journal...I would have left this site, like Pook said "you'll never understand the principles of this site untill you leave it.
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.