"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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The ultimite martial artist part 1-theory

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I really hope no one who is serious about studying a martial art looks here for any kind of advice.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

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.

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Let this die already!
 

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OP's advice was pretty useless but some of the disscussion afterwards was an interesting read.

If Traditional martial arts are so damn useless, then why when I was walking downtown Kunming, China one night did I see 5 military policemen practicing kung fu?? Why do most militaries still offer training in the traditional arts?

By the OP's logic, both TMA and MMA are both completely useless because we live in an era that has guns and bombs. Why not just train as a sniper or DL the cookbook instead of "wasting" time training in hand to hand.

The OP also makes the mistake of thinking that everyone takes a martial art for the same reasons. Many people learn different martial arts for many different reasons. Some for fighting, some for exercise, some for confidence, and some to meet asian chicks, ect... There is no one reason for learning martial arts. However I would like to say that the ultimate goal of a martial artist (once he's gotten into it) shouldn't be to become a better fighter, but a better humanbeing. After all, the point of martial arts is to stop a fight. Any teacher who says otherwise, isn't likely a good mentor.
 
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