"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Speaking Tour

pierce_r

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My agent has booked me at an 8-city college speaking tour this month to promote my book, which is coming out in a couple of months.

Let's talk social proof and being the alpha in the room: I will be lecturing in front of rooms full of impressionable young women, many of whom will be sowing their oats, all of whom are interested in the very thing that their professors will have told them I'm one of the world's leading experts at.

And I'll be staying in nice hotel rooms. Always a plus.

This is just a trial run. If this goes well, we'll hit it really hard later this year, and my book will find its way into some curricula. That would result in a steady gig speaking at colleges and universities, year in and year out.

Just saying.

Yum.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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pierce_r

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Dammit, I forgot the vampires.
 

Peaks&Valleys

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or wherewolves - for those broken hearted Team Jacob fans.

That's awesome man.

Any insight you can give us into what your book's about?
 

FairShake

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Congrats dude. Always nice to see guys succeeding like this. What is your book about?
 

pierce_r

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Globalization. Same as everyone else. A few new ideas, or so I'm told.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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carrot

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Do you need phd or similar to get your book into college like yours

Any Other similar subjects that dont need PHD ?
Religion,Yoga ?

pierce_r said:
Globalization. Same as everyone else. A few new ideas, or so I'm told.
 

pierce_r

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I don't have a Ph.D. I have two Bachelors degrees, an MBA in international finance, and post grad work in international development and regional studies, plus years of work in the military on provincial reconstruction teams.

You don't need a Ph.D to write a book but you'll have a hell of a time breaking into academia without at least a Masters. A big part is who you know but you've got to have the bona fides.
 
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