How to Impress a Woman
Every guy wants to be the coolest guy in the room. The stereotype that says men don't care about their outward appearance is completely false. So is the one that says women are the gender which competes for attention.
At best, that's a misleading assumption. Get a group of men into a bar with a similarly-sized group of women and the unspoken competition starts. Every guy, whether they show it or not, wants to master how to impress women.
Impressing Women
Question: How do you become the coolest guy in the room?
Answer: By impressing women in ways no other man can.
It's no secret that the most popular men in any room are the ladykillers, the guys who seem to have an easy time making women want them, men who understand how to impress a woman.
To be the coolest guy in the room, you don't have to be the most attractive, the wealthiest, or even the most interesting. You just have to master the ways to impress a woman and know how to make her interested in you.
With that in mind, here are ten ways to impress a woman. These are things you can do for little or no money, and in any social situation, to win female favor.
Here's how:
1. Be (or Appear) Well-Read
Believe it or not, the jock doesn't always get the girl. Being 'well read' can be just as impressive as having huge biceps - sometimes more so. Being literate gives you a wealth of 'material' to draw from, be it interesting stories, lines from favorite characters, or just an attitude of awareness and joie de vivre that only comes from a lifetime of loving literature.
Don't have time to tackle the whole English literary canon before your next night out? There's always Cliff Notes, Spark Notes, or any number of sources of 'get smart quick' info.
Be well-read and impress women hither and yon.
2. Be a 'Yes Man'
Let's face it -- women like to hear "Yes". They want you to say "Yes" when they work up the nerve to ask you to dance. They want to hear "Yes" when they ask for a drink, and they want to hear "Yes" in just about every other circumstance as well.
Learn to agree, to be positive, to be a "yes man". Be agreeable in the right way and you'll impress women with your willingness, your eagerness, your positivity and, most of all, your ability to have a good time.
3. Make Women Interesting
The best way to impress any one is to make them feel interesting and exciting. There are a number of ways to go about turning someone from a regular joe into a natural born genius, but with women the task is even easier. Listen to her stories with rapt attention, catch details of her jokes or her life to re-use later, and really pay attention to what she has to say.
Even if only for one night, make the woman you're talking to at the bar the most interesting person in the world. When you make someone else interesting, they immediately are impressed by you, and their opinion of you shoots through the roof.
4. Be Quiet
It isn't just the loud guys at the bar that pull chicks. There's a large number of women who find the quiet, engaging man far more interesting and impressive than the rowdy football fan. This goes hand in hand with idea one - 'be well-read' - but there is a huge untapped market out in the single's scene: smart chicks.
Impress your local smart chick by being the quiet (but interesting) guy at her local watering hole. I'm not suggesting you be shy or seem intimidated, but exude quite confidence, instead of loud cockiness.
5. Be Lonely
There's a difference between 'quiet' and 'lonely'. If you walk into a bar full of groups of friends and you're by yourself, you immediately elevate your status in that bar. You are mysterious and alone. That can be interesting and impressive, if you play it right.
The air of detached cool that surrounds you when you venture out to a bar alone is irresistible to many women. A guy by himself is far more interesting than a guy who needs two bros to get his confidence up. Want to impress a bar full of women? Go alone.
6. Be an Outsider
Being an outsider is especially impressive in college towns, or smaller towns where people know each other. This works well, if you have a natural accent that is opposite of the local one (a Texan in New England is especially effective). Believe it or not, it works if you can fake an accent well enough to use it all night on a woman.
Being an outsider adds to the air of mystery that comes with being 'alone' or being 'quiet'. You might be completely ordinary and mundane back home, but you're exotic out on the road. Being an outsider gives you instant conversational points.
That impresses a certain number of women right off the bat, because a lot of people would like to get away from the ordinary everyday.
7. Be Obnoxious
For the rest of the bar crowd, sometimes being an obnoxious asshole is the ticket to drawing their interest. Want to impress the outgoing undergrad crowd sipping martinis at the end of the bar? Tell a loud dirty joke, or raise a bit of a ruckus at the jukebox: anything loud and rowdy that will get you noticed.
Sure, any woman who is overtly attracted to a rowdy man at a bar may not be worth bringing home to mama, but if you're looking for one-night company, impress women by being your boisterous obnoxious self.
8. Be a Laugher
Women love to laugh. Women love men who laugh. Women love to smile and be smiled at. The next time you're at the pub, make sure you laugh and smile as often as possible.
Go to the bar armed with a handful of jokes of different character - knock-knock jokes, dirty jokes, puns and so on. Be the laughingest guy in any room and you'll impress a good deal of the women with your smile alone.
9. Be Yourself
You knew I was going to throw this in here. Women always say they want you to "be yourself".
what the heck does that mean, anyway?
Frankly, most guys are boring, leading lives of 'quiet desparation', as a famous writer once put it.
So what does she mean?
She wants a guy to be a "man's man", a tough guy with a soft core, willing to pay for dinner, but also willing to talk to her after sex, or even throw a few eggs in a pan the next morning. "Be yourself" really means to be what she wants in a man. Figure that out, and let me know. I could use the advice myself.
Seriously, though, being yourself is finding the best version of yourself and highlighting the parts a woman finds attractive. Find the optimistic, energetic, fun side of yourself, because people are attracted to positivity and hope. If you are naturally pessimistic, do not, under any circumstances, let that be the aura you're radiating.
10. Be Challenging
Women are hard to pin down. Want to impress a woman or convince her you're interesting?
Who can say, but maybe the answer is to be incredibly uninteresting. The point is, be different than every other man in the bar. Stand out in some way.
Put on your nerdiest clothes, act shy, order girly drinks, and go out of your way to be the least 'interesting' guy at the bar. If the place you're headed is particularly 'hip', the uninteresting angle is sure to impress every piece of tail that walks through the door. It sounds counter-intuitive, but one of the best ways to be impressive may be to be unimpressive.
The whole purpose of this list is to convince you how easy it is to impress a woman. Just about all of the above ten things conflict with each other in some way. The point is: be anything but a blank face and a warm body and some woman somewhere are going to be impressed by you.
Remember that part of impressing a woman is knowing how to seal the deal. Be sure that after you impress the woman of your choice, you know how to get the beautiful (impressed) woman from the bar to your front doorstep. But that's advice for another day.