"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
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.
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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.
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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.
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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**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:
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i was looking for that at the library. heard about it in a million little pieces.Bro said:
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Here's the results from one search, sort through them and then try doing your own searches:
http://www.sosuave.net/forum/search.php?searchid=137866
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
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.
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