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.
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.
Good point,.. .is this yet another humblebrag thread?SteR said:lol this thread seems to be a "my e-penis is bigger than your e-penis"..
I started my own company in late 1996, hence the income explosion and subsequent crash. It was also a reflection of the dot com bubble.TillTheEndOfTime said:Why the big jump after 1997? Why didn't that happen in 1995?![]()
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.
bigneil said:I was a CS major, which is nearly equivalent to EE.
I started my own company in late 1996, hence the income explosion and subsequent crash. It was also a reflection of the dot com bubble.
Things in the economy were never the same since.
As far as telling girls what we make, I do it because I figure all they ever hear is BS and I want to prove myself, even if I don't compare to the lies of others.
And good point ka mate.
Do you still have your own business?bigneil said:My salaries went:
$28.5 (1993)
$35.0 (1994)
$43.0 (1995)
$52.0 (1996)
$60.0 (1997)
$160.0 (1998)
$4M (1999) (started business worth $4M)
$-4M (2000) (lost it all to dot com crash)
Espi said:I do believe based on my experience that the primest females WILL choose money over looks...its biologically programmed in them...always has and always will be...the seventy year old five foot three balding bespectaled millionaire will attract and secure the hottest women.
Problem is, it takes a reasonable, down-to-earth man to appreciate what 1.72% means. America doesn't make those anymore.ka_mate said:http://globalrichlist.com/
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