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.
Damn Mike32ct, you just made me SH!T in my pants mentioning Burroughs.Mike32ct said:Only Burroughs could call us phaggots properly.
I'm neutral on PHM, but miss Burroughs.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
I sensed a warm playfulness in Burroughs rants. I found it strangely endearing and funny at times. We exchanged a few PMs too.GotED? said:
skinnyguy said:
LOL, you guys are acting like a bunch of underage kids. I said being "mentioned" and "talked about" because that's what my post is about.Jaylan said:
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
You don't see me blasting backbreaker or Maximus do you? They disagree with me all the time but I still respect them. PHM was just flat out wrong in everything and only listened to his yes men.RagingBalls said:LOL, you guys are acting like a bunch of underage kids. I said being "mentioned" and "talked about" because that's what my post is about.
Now, that made me curious more about the fella, sorry for being blunt when i say he did hit a nerve on you guys that's why i can smell bitterness and crybabies in you the way you reacted . Now i'll second PHM in saying...that's being a beta faggot indeed
I feel no bitterness regarding an outcast troll whos no longer allowed to post here. Go ahead and channel that failure all you want, it only highlights your own childishness. The dude never deserved the pedestal some put him on. He was a huge KJ, and its clear to many of us with dating experience that the dude didnt succeed with women, hence his negative demeanor.RagingBalls said:LOL, you guys are acting like a bunch of underage kids. I said being "mentioned" and "talked about" because that's what my post is about.
Now, that made me curious more about the fella, sorry for being blunt when i say he did hit a nerve on you guys that's why i can smell bitterness and crybabies in you the way you reacted . Now i'll second PHM in saying...that's being a beta faggot indeed
There was a paradigm shift in the overall philosophy at SoSuave.com and the tone of PHM's rhetoric was diametrically opposed with the more "sensitive," "kinder," and "gentler," approach that powers at be at So Suave deemed would be more conducive to getting and retaining current and future revenue.TheGambino said:
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.
Right, because no one on SoSuave ever expresses THAT opinion, lol.TheGambino said:
Right, we're supposed to be leaders (alphas). The problem with PHM was that he wanted followers. He could make some good points, but was sometimes too extreme. If you ever disagreed with anything that he said, his response would be to twist everything you said into something completely unrecognizeable, and insult you with his fourth grade level insults. He couldn't handle anyone disagreeing with him, and was very disrespectful to anyone who didn't tongue his @ss and fall into lock step with him.Grewd said:
This ^^ By admission it was predominantly gaylan and few other chicks incog/manginas who continually spammed the "Report Bad Post" and cried to the mods over PHM's use of "beta faggot". We can't be all that "red pill" if all it takes is half a dozen fainting goats to do you in here now.noobolgy said:
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
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Badass.Jaylan said:Im sorry that you miss sucking PHM's meat-stick so much. It must be hard for you now that your alpha is gone and that you can no longer be his "beta faggot".
Im sorry bro.
"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.
