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.
Finally some people who make sense about Pook. I was always confused why some people loved him so much. I've desrcribed his posts as an unnecessarily long and melodramatic run around the main point....which are often very simple and do not need the 5 pages he uses to explain them.
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.
That's just his writing style. He's a very descriptive writer, and very talented. You can tell it's kinda like art to him...and he put a lot into his posts. His tips are VERY good...but to those with a short attention span or who just are too restless or impatient to follow the long posts, his points tend to get lost. You have to be someone who either enjoys his writing style or can at least follow it patiently to get much out of his posts.
I've read a few of his posts in full to give him a fair chance. I found them to just be a fancy rehash of what goes around on this forum, advice in the DJB, and advice in many articles available all over the internet. He does not say anything that you can't find in the above mentioned resources, hence, they are NOT "his" tips. Why does he constantly get credit for simple concepts that you can find on practically any self-improvement resource?
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.
Well, that may be so but these ideas were around before 2000. They were around before this site was made. Him being here at the grand opening of this forum and posting those tips is not proof they are his...just proof that he knew about them from some place and just so happened to be one of the original members here to post first about them.
YES! I FEEL THE LOVE!
nope, thats the reason people stay!
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.