"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.

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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
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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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.
 

"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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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:
 

"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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