Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
You guys remember this old but gold TV show?
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"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.
I wonder what neg he used though which they censored...
I am pretty impressed with how he saved it at the end though, especially with the girl that hated him. That's calm confidence there.
Ridiculous when u see him after 21:00, a skinny dude with a 70's hairstyle and mustache, partying like Hugh Hefner. Looks really don't mean much in comparison to vibe.
Ya. The ****er got it going on.
I cringed when I saw the girl scream in glee at 19:30.
You don't have that aversion to this childish stuff? Or is it just me?
I feel like she is nuts.
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"Keys to the VIP" was on a Canadian network and a small U.S. cable network in a premier level tier. It was on from 2006-08.
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Mystery's "The Pickup Artist" was on VH1 (a basic cable network with larger distribution/audience) in 2007-08.
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Peak pickup was 2006-2010. Strauss' "The Game" came out in September 2005. The "Mystery Method" came out in late 2006, Roosh's "Bang" came over in early 2007. These two TV shows were from that era.
In 2006-2010, website online dating was big but not nearly as prevalent as swipe apps 2015 and later.
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He called them 'retards'
The show was funny. I watched it back in the day. I legit cracked up laughing a few times, mainly from the commentary from the panel of 'experts' - some of them were pretty funny, tbh. I used to sometimes watch it before going out for the night to put me a game mindset lol
Yeah, that cajun infield with the neg is kind of infamous and one of 2 examples people tend to use (out of about 10,000 infields that are online!!!) to show you can 'turn it around' and convert a girl from unnattracted too attracted with 'game'
I really don't like the example for a few reasons, though. 1/it's a TV show and i've read a few reports from blogs about how it was semi scripted in the way 'reality TV' is. Like, not completely 'fake', but the girls knew they were gonna be approached and that they were being filmed and stuff.
However, even if we put that to one side, the fact that their reaction of 'go away' was a result of his neg offending them, it's really not the same as a girl reacting like that if one opened in a regular way due to her just not being interested. In other words, it wasn't a lack of attraction, but a normal reaction to someone offending you - it's not an example of turning a girl from no to yes, but a good example of recovering after offending a girl
"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.
was at their peak between 2006-2013. I remember some:
Charisma arts
RSD
Vin dicarlo
ABC of attraction
4 elements of game
MM
Magic bullet
The social man
Paul Janka
Hyptonica
The alpha male guy
Day game
PUA
Other puas
And so on