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.
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.
Yep.Never heard of him.
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.
Never heard of this snoozer. Can't say words like "courage" and "pride" honestly even come to mind when I hear about another phaggot coming out. In this overly feminized climate where traditional masculinity is shamed, who gives a sh!t?cola said:I think hes very courages, and im proud of him and wish him the best, opinions and thoughts?
I don't think anyone wants to be gay. People don't like to be riddiculed if they can prevent it so it has to be more to it then "chose to be gay". I don't think they have a choice.( . )( . ) said:Never heard of this snoozer. Can't say words like "courage" and "pride" honestly even come to mind when I hear about another phaggot coming out. In this overly feminized climate where traditional masculinity is shamed, who gives a sh!t?
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Courage and pride.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Lol..backseatjuan said:Gay you can be inside your house, if you choose to be publically Gay, you're mentally ill and you're comitting a crime against children by displaying gay affection in public. In Russia there is a whole law that prohibits gay in public. That fag in ops post, whatever his name is, would get arrested in Russia and become a happy homo inside Russian prison system. He'd get a butterfly nakolochka on his butt and would be sleeping near prison cell bathroom, get his ass kicked for looking wrong on other men, and after a while he'd want to be straight. No nature involved.
Death to homos, femenists, and all other types of pervarts.
If you try to defend a homo you're a homo yourself and should be linched.
Don't be giving me that liberal emotional side talk either. I might suggest a reevaluation in what you think is praiseworthy and deserves feelings of pride. I can almost guarantee if you look a bit harder you'll see another pillow biter coming out is not all that great and courageous.cola said:I don't think anyone wants to be gay. People don't like to be riddiculed if they can prevent it so it has to be more to it then "chose to be gay". I don't think they have a choice.
You sir did not choose your race right? Would I be justified in calling you names over your race when you didnt pick it?
As far a society being feminine, men like you with a need to prove your masculinity by putting others down, are the definition of feminism.
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.
bukowski_merit said:From what i can find he's not a complete f@g. He came out that his first love was with a man. But he does like women. So, I guess he's bi (some articles mention this; some don't).