"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Bible_Belt

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There is a lot of good advice on this thread.

When you are just starting out and broke, you need a secondary source of income besides the business. Get a girlfriend with a good job. The most important advice I could ever give is to tell you to take your first profits and reinvest them back into the business. Typically, that involves buying equipment. You and your personal bills are parasites to your business income. The early revenue is very important and must be reinvested back into the business.
 

"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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I have a friend, well it's not my friend it's my fiancees friend but mine nevertheless, she worked for a startup about 12-14 years ago. she had JuST got married to this guy (still married). they were having trouble paying her. she wanted to stay, she believe in what they were doing, husband wanted to get a stable job.s he went and got a job at an art gallery and has worked there ever since.

that company? craigslist. needless to say, she made a mistake and let's her no risk taking husband hear it at every opproutnity.

startups are called startups for a reason. they aren't stable yet. Everyone wants to be rich, everyone wants to dream build but no one wants to sacrifice or anything or get pissy the first time the check isn't htere at 12 on noon friday.
 
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