"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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servo1234567

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I ran into a girl I haven't seen in about 3 years who was always crazy about me but I have no interest. I noticed how much she was coming on to me and then I wondered "why is it so easy to tell when a girl you don't like is interested but so hard when a girl you DO like is? I assume it's because we second guess ourselves when we really like someone. Anyone else noticed this?
 

"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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sounds true, but also, when they come on too strong, it's sometimes unattractive
 

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Yeah, but she was pretty ugly to begin with :p
 
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