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.
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.
Besides that she is a young, female version of Bernie Madoff.
I'd always thought she had a mediocre level of beauty (although she is slender), but this pic makes her look much better:
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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.
If someone showed you the clip starting at 2:36 and said she was a robot most believe it. The way she's nodding her head with her eyes open so wide they want to pop out her head is like she's glitching. This person is either a clone or possessed by some demons. Human clones are known to not blink or have belly buttons.This is a classic example of how she plays on insecurity. Notice how she holds an intense gaze and feigns laughter which makes the interviewer feel "special". Never underestimate how ego-fragile the vast majority of sheep really are, Holmes managed to con many so-called moguls (supposedly these people are geniuses) in Silicon Valley simply by smiling and laughing at their lame jokes.
Caveat: holding an intense gaze is something only women can pull off without looking creepy, because the label of "creepy" doesn't apply to women. If a man tries to run holding-intense-gaze game, he damn well better make sure he's Chad certified otherwise he's going to look like a total creeper.
EDIT: btw, at 0:45 look at those effeminate goons sitting with their legs crossed and eating up all the bs nonsense coming out of Holmes' mouth..... western men as a collective are an absolute joke, it's no wonder women don't respect men anymore.
It's pretty easy for girls to make guys feel special. Most guys don't get much attention from girls, so any overt display from a woman suggesting she might be into him is going to make him feel good.This is a classic example of how she plays on insecurity. Notice how she holds an intense gaze and feigns laughter which makes the interviewer feel "special". Never underestimate how ego-fragile the vast majority of sheep really are, Holmes managed to con many so-called moguls (supposedly these people are geniuses) in Silicon Valley simply by smiling and laughing at their lame jokes.
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.
When you look deep into her case, it is extremely troubling how far she was able to get, how much support she was able to garner, like she received a sign off from Henry freakin Kissinger, along with others but his name stands out.Well she's obviously a master at manipulation. Now she's all good with a rich fiancé who is very likely to be another simp.
Kissinger is the horniest man that most folks don't realize how horny he is.When you look deep into her case, it is extremely troubling how far she was able to get, how much support she was able to garner, like she received a sign off from Henry freakin Kissinger, along with others but his name stands out.
Forget the cash, the cars, and the chiseled jawlines. Female desire operates on a completely different frequency. Primal. Subconscious. Triggers that bypass her logic and hit her on a gut level. Most guys are totally blind to them.
I know because I was one of them. The overthinking. The paralysis. The silent drive home kicking yourself for freezing up. Watching average guys walk away with the girl while you stood there stuck in your own head.
Then I decoded the psychology behind what actually makes women tick. 22 hard rules. Subtle behavioral shifts that rewired my entire reality. The anxiety evaporated. Women started leaning in. Investing. Chasing.
Well, at some time during her 135 month sentence, I’ll betcha she might learn not to lie, and might eventually make her parents proud of her …I think she's going to jail.
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Elizabeth Holmes Sentencing Updates: Former Theranos CEO Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Prison
The founder of the disgraced blood-testing company was ordered to surrender in April and has 14 days to appeal her conviction.www.wsj.com
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.