"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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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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"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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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 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 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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