"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking 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.
Why don't really friendly, attractive, and smart girls
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
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.
Iceberg
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Fixed your postJPlaya said:
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"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"
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.
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Any decent looking female, even if she is SINGLE, is not necessarily celibate. She probably has some "secret lover" or ex or f*ck buddy stored in her phone. They exchanges text messages, and he probably comes over her place every so often. Girls hide their secret hookups from other guys. They want YOU to THINK they are all celibate and innocent. When asked about her "single status", she will say something likes "...she is just not that interested in having a boyfriend after breaking up with Steve six years ago." PLEASE DON'T be fooled by this dude.JPlaya said:
The funny thing is, the more friendly she is, the more likely she is to be taken. She might not be OFFICIALLY taken, i.e. has a boyfriend that is public knowledge, but if she's her happy cheerful self, she's getting laid somewhere somehow. It's all done under the radar.
I'm exaggerating slightly to make a point, but this is largely true.
I'll give you a real life example. I know this good looking, friendly, intelligent 21 y/o girl. She "broke up" with her boyfriend about a year ago. She is going to school full time. But she still goes over her ex's house once or twice a week "to study there because it's close to school." If anybody asked her, she doesn't have a boyfriend. She's not interested in dating until school is over.
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Why don't ugly fat people date or hook up with anyone?
The question I asked is wrong for the same reason as yours. You make several incorrect assumptions.
1. You assume that if hot girls were hooking up with people, that you'd be around to witness it. Let me ask you, do you tend to hook up in public, or to talk with many people about your hookups? Only desperate people seeking validation brag to anyone and everyone about their sexual exploits, and hot women generally don't seek that kind of validation.
2. You assume that you know a reasonable cross-section of the hot female population to make this observation. Let me ask you, do you have many or even a few hot female friends? If you do, then you should probably ask them about this.
3. You assume that just because hot women don't date or hook up with just any guy that they don't hook up or date at all. They have standards, but, as with most people, their standards can be met and are probably met far more often than you'd like to believe. It's a big world full of a lot of people and 75% of women by the age of 19 are no longer virgins.
They date, they hook up, and in fact they may have a lot more sex than you, but you shouldn't expect them to run and tell you about it. Real life is not a pornographic film with peep holes, orgies, and exhibitionists around every corner.
"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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They do, with me. Seriously, I'm with a girl right now that's just as you described. They're out there, you've just got to take the time to find them. Too me about 4 years to find one I liked and met my standards (so far).JPlaya said:
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Also they don´t need to have a fvck buddy, for many people sex is not an obsession.
Of course there´re some that are single but fvck other guys, ons etc.. But I know from experience what you are saying.
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Because you think you do. Take action.JPlaya said:
I've seen you start a lot of threads lately and read most of them. From what you say, you sound like you're working on yourself physically, though your "approach journal" is as empty as it could be. You're not going to "stop sucking" until you take action. These threads can't help you anymore.
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
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.
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Agreed. There are no 100 percent rules in the game. There probably are some good looking girls that are celibate at times and they don't care/mind. I just wanted the OP to not assume they're celibate. They're usually hooking up somehow, but not always.JdelaSilviera said:
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Also, smart chicks can see through KINO and your PUA in 50 milliseconds. Trying to Peacock with a smart girl is a good way to humiliate yourself when she sees through it.
Myrrdin
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Dude, what? KINO is THE ultimate weapon in MAN's arsenal. The power of touch is what sets you apart from her FRIENDS!leeraconteur said:
Peacocking can also be done with style. If you want to peacock and don't want to do it like Mystery then hit the gym. A bulked and ripped body is THE most effective way to peacock.
Keep reading before you give advice
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.