Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
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.
OzyBoy said:I was thinking about buying some certain stock earlier this year but decided not to at the last minute. Ahhhh!! It is up about 250%. :cuss:
Unless you read it wrong. I trade Forex. Its already random enough. The stock market?? Forget about it. Especially with the commissions involved and the unpredictable fluctuations now.hobokeni said:buy and hold is not the only way
many traders/investors short the market
sometimes the down moves are very fast for quick profit.
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.
ready123 said:Buy BAC and wait for it to go back up to 50
short term traders historically have the least return on the investment in the long run when compared to any other type of investor ( U cal Berkley study if anyone cares...too lazy to dig up the research) including people who put their money into mutual funds.speakeasy said:I wish I was good at this stuff. In the meantime, I'll just have to work for my money.
you could've bought BAC when it was at 3 back in Feb and today it hit 15. 5 bagger. even if you bought last Monday, it was at 12. 25% gain in a weekWiesman44 said:Some of us don't have 40 years to wait for this to happen :crackup:
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
ready123 said:you could've bought BAC when it was at 3 back in Feb and today it hit 15. 5 bagger. even if you bought last Monday, it was at 12. 25% gain in a week
I don't give a fvck if it hits 50 or not, which it will when the economy gets healthy, but I'll be surprised if it doesn't hit 30 by next year. 100% gain is fine with me
easy money if you're not daytrading
Which is why the price is taking a dive. But it depends if you're a long term investor or short term. Also, BAC is pretty overvalued.hobokeni said:This is not time to buy
dont listen to TV
its all free on tv cnbc isnt it ??
Price is what you pay ,value is what you get
dont be the one left holding bag,
there are few good chinese companys with growth rate
not in US many company have high multiples p/e and overvalued on fundamentals,
big boys are dumping now
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.
great bookEvzone said:2. Read Fooled by Randomness.
yeah, I don't get the insistence on shorting either, unless maybe you're daytrading or know a specific industry that's going down. it's gonna be a bull summer with a few pullbacksmacallik said:To the OP, as for shorting the market. If you know something I don't go for it, but to my knowledge it is a bull summer and coming off the best continuous period in the last year...
Oh yea? I saw a story on CNBC yesterday about how tablets are being introduced for free in a handful popular universities across the country, and how they end up saving students 30-50% on their books. The idea of tablets selling well does make the assumption that Americans have a predisposition to reading that I don't quite agree with but I'll have to keep an eye out on the situation sommore...ready123 said:AAPL is releasing a tablet in September (other OEM's put their tablets on hold because they're scared) and everyone knows how good AAPL is creating market share out of thin air. If that tablet catches on, that stock is rising. If it doesn't, that stock is still rising because the economy is getting better
Not likely. The iPhone is a premium product.macallik said:they want the phone their friend has at a cheap price and AAPL is doin that.