Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.
The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.
Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
Absolutely agree. If the recent trend of young guys coming to this board continues, then it will defeat the point of the Mature Man Forum entriely. This situation aside, this forum seems to be evolving nicely.Originally posted by Jay Gatsby
Yes, there do seem to be a few underage posters coming here and asking for advice. Can you blame them? The mature men who could answer their questions are, for the most part, spending more time here than on the main board. Those same men are most certainly not spending time on the high school board. So in the end, you have clueless guys giving advice to other clueless guys. Talk about the blind leading the blind.![]()
At the same time, I completely understand why mature men would want to spend their time here. We have questions that no underage poster could answer, much less understand. Issues like marriage, children, divorce, investments, etc...are all issues that your average 25+ year old person has to deal with. Your average underage person, on the other hand, is still dealing with getting a girl's (and I mean *girl* not woman) phone number, if not ultimately doing the deed with her.
With all that said, underage posters should not post their questions here. If you, as an underage poster, have a question that you think that a mature man is the only one who can answer it (you'd most likely be wrong), then simply post a link here to your message on the main board. Do so only if nobody has responded in 2-3 days. We are a secondary resource, not your primary one.
If you're still in high school, you'll be wasting your time in posting here, since most of us are at least 8-10 years out of high school, and have moved beyond playing the types of games high school girls play.
To the moderators: I would suggest a sticky at the top that tells underage folks some of the foregoing things.
Duly noted. I'll be broadcasting some new "Mature Man" guidelines in the next few days.Originally posted by Jay Gatsby
To the moderators: I would suggest a sticky at the top that tells underage folks some of the foregoing things.