"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.
What are your passion(s) in life?
- Thread starter Squiggly Sponge
- Start date
"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.
-skiing
-reading philosophy, science, and other interesting stuff for pleasure
-drawing and painting
-exploring exotic countries
-used to do some scuba diving, that was alot of fun
-used to fly airplanes, also alot of fun
-sea kayaking
-hot babes (that is still a wannabe hobby unfortunately)
-exploring the great outdoors, and taking pictures of it which I already mentioned
-armchair futurist(I think all futurists are armchair futurists)
-I actually like to cook, in fact I went to a meetup dot com gourmet potluck tonight in which I cooked stuff.
Jerry Maguire
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Whenever I'm not at University or work, I'm with my girl, and when I'm not with her, I'm relaxing; surfing internet, KBJing, playing Halo 3, it sucks.
I borrowed my girl's bass guitar so I'm going to start playing that, I used to love playing football (soccer) and I'd love to play regularly again, I'd like to do some Muay Thai again or start Jiu Jitsu and I'd like to be learn how to be sociable
Thing is, I don't get as much sleep as I need because I'm always up late surfing teh internutz so I'm too tired and lethargic to even think about doing something active
Vicious cycle.
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fitness
languages
travel
good food
skyscrapers (especially with all those ones going up in Dubai)
investing
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.