davidsonj73
Senior Don Juan
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Also, how much can one charge for how many hours of lessons?
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.
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.
The whole PUA thing seems to be fading. Few men now are interested in doing a lot of approaching in the real world, as compared to the PUAs of the late 1990s - mid 2010s era. Interest in PUA likely peaked somewhere in the 2000s.The golden age might have gone now since nobody really believes in 'PUA' anymore
the main change is that the idea of 'game' (past basic social skills) just isn't something anyone really believes in any more. And tbh, rightly so!The whole PUA thing seems to be fading. Few men now are interesting in doing a lot of approaching in the real world, as compared to the PUAs of the late 1990s - mid 2010s era. Interest in PUA likely peaked somewhere in the 2000s.
Imo, it peaked in late 00s - early 10s. RSDs golden years were around this time. I still remember Julien Blancs infield footage around this time, 10-14, he was a literal pickup God, i can find his old compilation footage if anyone wants. It was truly incredible, and a total paradigm shift. Unfortunately, the SJW/feminists ramped up by the mid 10s and he was cancelled, which led to the downfall of RSD and PUA in general.The whole PUA thing seems to be fading. Few men now are interested in doing a lot of approaching in the real world, as compared to the PUAs of the late 1990s - mid 2010s era. Interest in PUA likely peaked somewhere in the 2000s.
A lot of people like the idea of sitting at home and swiping, even though swipe apps tend to produce poor outcomes for most men. A lot of men find it convenient to sit at home instead of getting dressed up and going out into the real world. This was something many men were feeling in the 2010s even before the pandemic affected real world interactions for about 2 years in the early 2020s.
Social media DMing is also a difficult path.
I determined my best path involved real world approaching as compared to app swiping or sending DMs on Instagram.