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.
It's apples and oranges.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Defenses are also better now. Zone was illegal. Players today would rip up man to man isos all day. You have to be able to shoot in 2021.
They definitely are bro
Okay.
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.
Isnt that true of every sport?
For good reason. Baseball is far more conservative and have less liberal messages, so it appeals to the fans that actually go see it. Eventually, the NBA will learn that, too, but I think they're the most ****ed rn. NFL ****ed themselves with the BLM stuff, and they still have the audacity to showcase some of the agendas (including the mask and vaccine d*ckriding show that no one wants to deal with). That's why currently college football is far more appealing. No political bs and everyone out there to have a good time.
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.
They are all wrong. Compare a 2021 Corvette to a 1980s Corvette. Players now are bigger, faster, stronger, better shooters and significantly better at ball handling.
Kobe Bryant is not wrong about this.
In that quote he is wrong. He’s contradicted himself as early as 2019 regarding that.
Nostalgia is well intentioned. However, it’s ludicrous to suggest players are regressing in talent with each passing generation. They are better now. And I’ll take KD, LeBron, Kobe, Curry, and Kawhi vs. any combination of 5 basketball players to ever play this game.
Today's typical game is, by and large, a 48-minute long 3-point shooting contest. Nobody's saying today's players are regressing in talent. What we ARE saying is that today's defense is soft compared to the 80s and 90s.
Dunno this is the "my era was better" thing.
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.
Like most things, this is an argument that will have no clear winner. Everything is personal preference.
