"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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"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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dice

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To the origional poster:

were you adding up your rejections or your points?

You did 15 rejections but you got 40 points so which do you go by?
 

afrojiggles

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kul man
 

sam3083

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I just hope that elstud could see this now.

He has had little success becasue all his approaches were 1 out of 10's. Compared to someone who makes less approaches, but has more social skills and frequently scores 8's, 9's, and 10's, its no wonder the more socially apt guy has more success.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

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.

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fertileTurtle

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I think some of the rejections are due to the quality of your approach situations. Just cold walking up to strangers with nothing particular in common is a disadvantage. I noticed how one of your female coworkers accepted at first at least.
 
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