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.
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.
I wanted to bump this thread because of how relevant this info is. Get rid of the laptop, porn, and video games, TECHNOLOGY IS A CURSE.Drewskie said:I must say, now that I have read lots of the material out there, this is still one of the best.
Can someone post the pdf for this? The link that was posted in 2003 IS DOWN.naSTIboost said:Thanks for bumping this post! Some solid stuff here for sure. I will do this and post results.
Mister T the link is in the DJ Bible at the bottom of this page. Open that up and you can download it from there along with the also excellent 'Book of Pook'Mister T said:Can someone post the pdf for this? The link that was posted in 2003 IS DOWN.
PLEASE DO!!!!!
AND RIGHT NOW, I'm in the process of deleting all my "technology" --- deleting Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, etc.
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.
Mister T said:I wanted to bump this thread because of how relevant this info is. Get rid of the laptop, porn, and video games, TECHNOLOGY IS A CURSE.
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.
I fixed the links. They all work now.listed in the DJ bible but the links in the original post just bring me back to the discussions forum
Awesome ! Back to my studiesI fixed the links. They all work now.