Sho-No-Luv
Senior Don Juan
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/us/muhammad-ali/
Greatest of all times..
Surprised no one else mentioned this..
Greatest of all times..
Surprised no one else mentioned this..
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
RIP-MUHAMMAD ALI
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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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There's a thread on the general forum, but it seems more appropriate here.
I was watching ESPN First Take the other day, and Stephen A Smith gave his thoughts on Ali, which seemed to be mostly that he was a great African American who confronted White America by refusing to enter the Vietnam War, and got off the mat when hit by Joe Frazier because he wouldn't let White America defeat him.
Well, be that as it may. I am a white man, and I grew up in the 60s and 70s (I'm 7 years older than Smith), and I always liked Ali. I think Smith is very much under rating Ali by casting him solely as a great black hero, which he was. Ali was the most famous person in the world when I was growing up. It's hard to understand today, because back then the heavyweight boxing champ was one of the most well known and respected positions in sports. I don't even know who the current champ is, or if there even is one.
I know many young black men were dealt a raw deal by the Vietnam experience, but I must remind Smith that there were a whole bunch of white kids back then who were against the Vietnam war too. Yeah, there were old white men in power, but it wasn't just a white vs black thing, more of a rich/elite vs poor thing. It's true there were some people who resented Ali because of his civil rights stands, but I'm telling you now he had a lot of white fans also. I've seen statements tributing him as having one of the greatest lives ever lived, and I think that's far more fitting than the narrow focus Smith presented.
I've always been a man who respects humility, but Ali was very much a brash talker - his "I am the greatest" claim, which he has been quoted as saying before he even knew he was the greatest. He said that he would make these grandiose claims because it would then put pressure on him to deliver, and put in the work needed. I see this kind of self regard and humility as being two sides of the same coin, in a way. I bring this up here since self regard and even being full of yourself is often presented as a desirable trait for a PUA, or a ladies man, or a DJ, or whatever. I like Ali's take on it.
I was watching ESPN First Take the other day, and Stephen A Smith gave his thoughts on Ali, which seemed to be mostly that he was a great African American who confronted White America by refusing to enter the Vietnam War, and got off the mat when hit by Joe Frazier because he wouldn't let White America defeat him.
Well, be that as it may. I am a white man, and I grew up in the 60s and 70s (I'm 7 years older than Smith), and I always liked Ali. I think Smith is very much under rating Ali by casting him solely as a great black hero, which he was. Ali was the most famous person in the world when I was growing up. It's hard to understand today, because back then the heavyweight boxing champ was one of the most well known and respected positions in sports. I don't even know who the current champ is, or if there even is one.
I know many young black men were dealt a raw deal by the Vietnam experience, but I must remind Smith that there were a whole bunch of white kids back then who were against the Vietnam war too. Yeah, there were old white men in power, but it wasn't just a white vs black thing, more of a rich/elite vs poor thing. It's true there were some people who resented Ali because of his civil rights stands, but I'm telling you now he had a lot of white fans also. I've seen statements tributing him as having one of the greatest lives ever lived, and I think that's far more fitting than the narrow focus Smith presented.
I've always been a man who respects humility, but Ali was very much a brash talker - his "I am the greatest" claim, which he has been quoted as saying before he even knew he was the greatest. He said that he would make these grandiose claims because it would then put pressure on him to deliver, and put in the work needed. I see this kind of self regard and humility as being two sides of the same coin, in a way. I bring this up here since self regard and even being full of yourself is often presented as a desirable trait for a PUA, or a ladies man, or a DJ, or whatever. I like Ali's take on it.