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A woman can flirt. I'm going to give you my impression which will be horrifying. This is going to be horrifying. My impression of a woman flirting with maximum, like just full force. This is full-on flirting. "Hi." That's it. Done. Direct eye contact and a smile. You're done. Almost every guy will think, I think she's into me. I remember for a time my local grocery store was forcing the employees…
← Previous segment →ut with somebody who had plenty of empathy but no power because you're probably going to end up helping them. Right now you might like those people but in terms of a leader you want somebody who has ability you don't have but also cares about you. Now that goes to flirting, especially male flirting. So if you're male you have to demonstrate some kind of power. The power could be confidence, money, position. It could be just your physicality, something like that. That's your power. And so it doesn't have to be real direct power. It has to be like the impression of power, right? Just the impression. However you want to sell that.
So you create the impression of power and then you combine that with interest and empathy. And instead of using your power to get what you want, you say how can I help you? What can I do for you? How was your day? Oh, and then show actual interest. Now if you're faking it, it doesn't work and people can see through falsehood. But if you actually do care about people, it would work fine.
So the best flirting you can do is to be charismatic. Show you have some kind of power. You're genetically gifted if you are. You're strong maybe because you made yourself that way or you're successful. And somehow you've got to project that in some way that other people can see without you bragging. And then act empathetic and you're done. Boom.
But if you do the overly flirty flirty thing, that's too much. Now I'll also te
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ll you that a compliment, if it's given sincerely and confidently, can act like a flirt while being just matter of fact. So if you do it right people will accept the compliment as intended. It'll have a big impact. But you don't have to have a let's say a begging simp-like approach to doing it. You could just say, just give your opinion. All right. I believe that I have now accomplished the impos…
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