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.
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.
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?![]()
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.
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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