"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

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.

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What's the deal with POEMS?

SamePendo

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Is it only me, or do poems suck?

I find no artistic merit to them. I mean, yeah, some even rhyme and whatnot, but... come on! I mean, it's like... "geesh! I have the afternoon off, I'm going to the library to read poems" :crazy:

Poems: :down:
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

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.

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SELF-MASTERY

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I like walt whitman even though he was gay and wrote homeerotic poems... leaves of grass is so classic, and I was lucky to have a professor that was so into literature and poetry that it rubbed off on her students... I have a 2000 page literature book that I plan on finishing this year or sometime in my lifetime....
 

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Poems do seem a bit cliché nowadays. Don't get me wrong, I love a creative mind but poems seem a bit corny nowadays.
 

“The 22 Psychological Triggers That Make Women Chase You… Starting Tonight”

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.

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Brian20o2

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Francisco d'Anconia said:
Poems do seem a bit cliché nowadays. Don't get me wrong, I love a creative mind but poems seem a bit corny nowadays.
99.9% of the new stuff sucks but the classics are still great.
 

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I dont like modern day "white" poetry, but spoken word is hot.

I think that alot of quality poetry should come from our generation...
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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Brian20o2 said:
99.9% of the new stuff sucks but the classics are still great.
Yeah, I was going to say that the classic stuff is still good. It helps you appreciate the lifestyle and the time period of the poet. Contemporary poetry lacks the artistry of the classics.
 

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Lol, the title of this thread reminds me of a lame comedian. You know, they're like "What's the deal with airplane food?". Funny.

Anyway, poems are meh. Some are good, most are boring.
 

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I agree, poems are just pretentious nonsense to me. Don't get me wrong I can appreciate good literature and prose but if you have something worth saying, why not come out and say it as clearly as possible? Surely if it's important, you want people to understand it, so why put it into some obscure riddle, make it rhyme and adhere to patterns and restrictions and all that crap?!

I feel the same about song lyrics too. I personally enjoy music for the sound that it makes and nothing more. If I want meaning and words, I'll read a book.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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