"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.
The Truth About Confidence
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"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
superslothx1
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"She's Out of Your League"
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.
"She's Out of Your League"
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.
Spike_the_cowboy
Master Don Juan
kave
Don Juan
Canadiandon
Don Juan
"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.
jonny football hero
Master Don Juan
Excellent post! My recent experiences have verified all of this, especially the social skills part. I spent all year stuck in a rut, living at home with my parents, fretting over my sad situation. Then I went hiking alone in the Bavarian Alps for a week, during the course of which I was forced to do everything for myself, especially talking to people (I speak German, btw), which really boosted my confidence. I met an ultra smart German chick and spent 2 days hiking with her, then I met a hot American graduate (she was part Italian, part something else, but a work of art to look at) in the central train station in Munich - she just seemed to like Irish accents (I even got a nice playful, gentle slap from her) - and finally I met an attractive married lady (whom I would stress I never tried to impress at all) on the plane back to Dublin. She said I was the most interesting person she'd ever met on a flight and she'd like to meet me again, although I didn't give her my contact details because I'm not into home-wrecking.
The point is, when you are upbeat about life, and believe in your ability to be attractive, when you can do bold things like immerse yourself in a foreign culture with a foreign language, you become genuinely interesting, and it's a self-feeding cycle of confidence and positive reactions from women, just as moping around is a self-feeding cycle of fear and negative reactions from women.
WaRpEd
Senior Don Juan
i've noticed alot of people making mistakes like these. I guess it comes with inexperience.
jakeyboy
Master Don Juan
"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"
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.