"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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So i'm going to start reading some self-improvement books, heres my list. What would you recommend? Whats on your list?

  1. The 48 Laws of Power
  2. The 33 Strategies of War
  3. Think and Grow Rich
  4. The Art of War
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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here's some great titles.

1. maxiumum achievement- brian tracy
2. goals- brian tracy
3. the laws of success-napoleon hill.
4. the power of your sub-conscience mind-dr.murphy.
5. the secret of the ages-robert collier

i never could get into anything by anthony robbins. but i hear great things from readers who finished his books.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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thanks Self-Mastery, add to favorites.

all great books mention.

here's a few:

As a Man Thinketh- James Allen
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude- Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
Siddhartha- Herman Hesse
Tao Te Ching- Lao Tzu
anything by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius.
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
The Lord of the Rings (it is one of my goals to read it!)
biographies on Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
Ben Franklin's autobiography

I like Ernest Hemingway. He lived an interesting life. Served in the ambulance corps during the war, lived in Paris, got all the ladies, trying to find and destroy Nazi u-boats, hunting in Africa and exotic places, fishing, it's too bad he put the bullet into his head cabbage
 

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Tao Te Ching- Lao Tzu
One think I noticed . . . This book is completely different depending on which translation you find.
 

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**The New York Times Essential Library: Opera: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings (The New York Times Essential Library) (Paperback) - Tommasini
**Ultimate Hotel Design (Hardcover) - Cuito

The New Penguin Russian Course - Brown
English-Russian Dictionary - Katzner
Russia As It Is: Transformation of a Lose/Lose Society - Maly

Koran
The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
The Orthodox Study Bible

The New Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition - Stevenson

The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated (Vintage) - Vladimir Nabokov and Alfred Appel Jr.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics) - Gogol
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback) - Dostoevsky
Pleasant Hell Paperback - John Dolan

HOPE YOU LIKE :flowers:
 

"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.

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