"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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Year 2000: Tech Guys Were Inept at Dating & Silicon Valley Was a Sausage Fest

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Digging for Gold (forbes.com)

Mark Cuban didn't find an LTR until he was nearly 40 years old and I don't think a lot of it was by choice. Cuban is 64 now. He was able to meet a woman at the gym was he was 39 and she was 25. Billions of dollars can make you a better cold approacher at the gym. Also, there were fewer earbuds at the gym in 1997.

Back in 2000, a few big time tech executive males ended up dipping their pens in the company ink and marrying women in their company's PR/Marketing departments.

The wild thing is that these guys were borderline incel as Boomers and early Gen X'ers, who had better social skills than Millennials who followed them.
 
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"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

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.

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What do you mean "was", it still is a sausage fest. A lot of places are sausage fests with insane ratios of men to women like 5:1.

The weird thing is you will never find a place where women significantly outnumber men.
 

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In the year 2000, Silicon Valley was a sausage fest. In 2022, it is still a sausage fest. That's a correct assessment.
 

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Who's doing the golddigging though? The women or the nerds with their noses?


it's over for Hygienediggers
 

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Digging for Gold (forbes.com)

Mark Cuban didn't find an LTR until he was nearly 40 years old and I don't think a lot of it was by choice. Cuban is 64 now. He was able to meet a woman at the gym was he was 39 and she was 25. Billions of dollars can make you a better cold approacher at the gym. Also, there were fewer earbuds at the gym in 1997.

Back in 2000, a few big time tech executive males ended up dipping their pens in the company ink and marrying women in their company's PR/Marketing departments.

The wild thing is that these guys were borderline incel as Boomers and early Gen X'ers, who had better social skills than Millennials who followed them.
In high school Cuban couldn't get a date to the prom--he had to be set up by a family friend.
It's OVER for PreBillionaireCels.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

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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What do you mean "was", it still is a sausage fest. A lot of places are sausage fests with insane ratios of men to women like 5:1.

The weird thing is you will never find a place where women significantly outnumber men.
You'll find them in some places ...

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