I'm working on my VSL and I'm FUCKING stoked!

What I don't like about the VSL's that I've seen:

They tend to do a lot of hyping and future pacing of the value that they're promising to ensure that the audience watches the whole thing. I'm gonna cut down on that a bit.

Every VSL has a hero story, but a lot of the ones I've seen don't have the correct elements for maximum emotional impact. I've incorporated all the elements of a successful hero story and weaved it into my own, and it's FUCKING BAUSS. I get chills just reading it.

I got about 6 pages through on the transcript, I've gotten through the whole opening sequence and the hero story, and now I'm working on the product pitch and the limiting buying beliefs. Once the transcript is done, I'll record the audio. Then I'll use iMovie to edit it and add in the still frames. Then I'll throw it up on clickfunnels, do the design work, and BOOM. It'll be go time.

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Amanda and I are texting and Snapchatting a lot more now, good.

I run into her on campus on the way back from lunch, and she's all excited, smiley and giggly and sharing stories about her day. It's adorable. She texts me afterwards that she was really happy to run into me. DAWWW.

Alyssa messaged me at noon:
What are your plans tonight / are you busy / are you going to be in the library lol

I reply:
Hahahaha I'll be in the library studying, you need help on something?

Her:
Okay, I need to study more for inverts and I guess I was just going to ask your advice on how best to study and show you what I have to know

Me:
Ok word, I'll text you when I'm there

Her:
Ok thanks!

Our other text interaction the day before was flirty from her, but I was very short. Self amused, but only a couple words each time.

That's the way it should be. Maximum emotional impact, minimum word usage.

Not that I'm trying to game her or anything.

Javi and I do our lifts. I go up in weight in all 3 exercises.

Our first is 3 sets of pullups. I'm at 3x13.

Second is cable rows, went up to 145 lbs yesterday but struggled on the last 2 reps, bad form. 3x8

Third is bicep curls, went up to 32.5 each side. Supposed to be 3x16, ended up doing 16, 12, 12, going to failure.

To be expected when you go up in weight. Run home, hit protein powder, hit up food, run into Mark there. We chat a bit. Tell him I have a secret plan in internet marketing that I'm going to drop out of grad school for. The more people I tell, the more commitment / consistency works for me.

Won't be able to work on VSL for several days now, my homie is coming into town and I'm behind on PhD work. Must catch that shit up before I charge ahead more on that.

According to DB, infomercials are some good freakin copy. Gonna watch a few, learn some tricks.

I head to the library afterwards. Text Alyssa, and we meet up in the couch room.

We start studying together, and she's really giggly and flirty. I shoot off a couple playfully arrogant lines and she rolls her eyes. Tells me I'm arrogant. I smirk and say, of course not. I give her some tips on studying, she offers me some food. More flirting. I'm studying, and end up taking a short nap. I wake up, and she's gone. Her stuff is still there.

She gets back from the cafe downstairs, carrying some food and 2 drinks. One of them is for me. What a sweetheart! I tell her she's sweet. We do some more studying, she's asking me questions and giving signs of interest. I quiz her some. She tells me she doesn't know what she'd do without me. She needs someone to keep her on track (she has slight ADD).

I tell her if only there was a tall, incredibly smart, and stunningly handsome Asian around to help. Smirk. She rolls her eyes and giggles. She's so goddamn cute.

I go get some food. Come back. She offers me the rest of her bagel. I tell her I love her. She laughs.

Library closes at midnight.

We walk out together. She's going one way, and I'm going the other, towards my car, but she hesitates, and then says, "I'll just walk you to your car." Alarm bells are firing off in my head, this girl wants to be kissed. Shit.

We get to my car, I put her skateboard on the floor. I don't slow the vibe down, give her a hug goodbye, and get in my car. Whew. That was close.

I knew she wanted it. No other reason for her to walk me to my car in the OPPOSITE direction of where she was going. I'm proud of myself for not taking the bait. Especially cuz this girl is so unbelievably cute. This is unfair. I want both girls. Damnit.

STAY STRONG NING.

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YO!

It's Ning. How the fuck have you been?

I've been amazing. And gorgeous. Thanks for asking.

How am I doing so well, you ask?

The past few days have been liberatingly infused with awesomeness.

Here's the quick and fast breakdown:

Thursday

Luke arrives. I immediately take him out to sushi, just us 2 and 3 cute girls (Alicia, Angelica, and Jen).

Now my best friend Luke is a hunk of a specimen, girls are always attracted to his classic good looks. Unfortunately, his game is somewhat akin to a pile of dog shit. He's the classic nice guy.

Alicia is a skinny blonde with huge tits. Angelica is a shy but cute Asian girl. Jen is tall with dark hair, beautiful, who I hooked up with back in the fall (go back and read the JH girl story).

I self amuse the whole time, girls flirt with us both, it's an awesome time.

Afterwards, Luke is speechless. "You just... hang out with cute girls all the time?"

Lol. Yes, yes I do. And I can teach you how.

"I want to hear EVERYTHING you have to say."

Lol.

I show him some lab work and I teach him the very basics of game. I show him the proof on Facebook (it's just picture after picture of me hanging out with tons of hot girls). It's just one paradigm shift exploding in his brain after the other, as his brain is completely rocked.

I tell him about the program I created (done now, just working on implementation), and he immediately requests a copy.

I give a bit of a challenge:

Luke, I'm gonna tell you something, but it's only because I care about you. I know that you're a hard worker, and that when you really, really want something, you go after it. Look at how much work you put into your CPA exams. You know how to work hard and take action. I'm only going to give you this product, completely free of charge, because I know that that lifestyle you just saw, where I hang out with tons of hot girls, and they're all attracted to me, is something that you want. I KNOW that you're capable of getting there. So I only want you to accept the copy of my program if you are going to read it and actually go through it.

Basically, I'm using Cialdini's commitment / consistency in combination with a challenge to make it more likely that he'll read the program and go through it.

He agrees.

We go to tango, where he meets Amanda.

I ask him what he thinks of her afterwards, and he gushes.

"Dude, she's gorgeous. And not in like a bitchy way either, super chill and down to earth. Dude man, good job, she's a catch and a half."

I agree with him. "Yeah, sometimes I'm just like, are you a real creature? Like, how the fuck did God create you?"

Afterwards, we head to Road 34. We meet up with Mandy, Allison, and Angela. My homeboy Ian comes as well. We party and have a raucus time. I notice Allison wearing makeup (not common), as she knew that she was meeting my best friend Luke. I introduce them together as my "best friend back home" and "my best friend here".

I give Allison a hug, and tell Luke that without Allison I would never have survived the Amanda breakup. Allison melts into a pool of butter and I give her a hug.

Luke is gawking... "so you just have a girl that you can talk about your girl problems with? That's insane!" Yup.

Luke and Allison don't really hit it off, but Mandy and Luke do. Hell yeah. We all talk and banter and have fun the entire evening. We head to Mcdonald's after, as Cassandra is texting the shit out of my phone, drunk and pressuring me to meet up.

I tell her to come to Mcdonald's. After some hemming and hawing, she shows up with Jesse and 2 more dudes. We goof around some more, and Amanda is Snapchatting the text out of my phone. GodDAMNIT there's a lot of cute girls running around.

I tell Mandy to take Luke home. It's a golden opportunity for something to happen, but I know that it's unlikely for Luke to make a move. Mandy already told me she's into Luke.

I bring Amanda some Mcdonald's. She melts. We fool around a bit in her lab. I help her do lab work until like 3:30 am, which she greatly appreciates, and then head back and go to sleep.

On Friday, I tell Luke that Mandy found him attractive. He lights up. He keeps re-iterating how insane it is that all I do is hang out with hot girls.

We go on a run and grab some food. I go to a lab meeting, then we head to Odell's to meet a bunch of dudes and Cassandra. Afterwards, Luke tells me it seems like Cassandra's into me. Yup. She apologizes for her drunk behavior last night, and keeps touching me the whole time.

We meet up with Allison, who's shopping. The three of us hit up Taco Bell, and we talk about the 5 love languages. Luke shares some heartbreak stories. We give him some advice.

We head to a party organized by Mandy's friend Kelly, and there's a ton of people there. We break up, I chat with Allison and some dudes, and then I spot the book, "Attached" on the bookshelf. The owner is a psychology graduate student specializing in couples therapy.

DB had mentioned this book to me earlier, and I was intrigued. Immediately I disconnect from the party, grab the book, and just sit down on a couch to read it. I find all the important parts and devour them, skimming the rest. Allison comes, sits down next to me, and I read some interesting parts out loud to her. The book basically confirms that some of the actions I've taken in the relationship with Amanda recently have been the correct ones.

Good to know for the future.

Amanda texts me:
I am so happy, despite my horrible day. Why? Because I can still hug you! Ugh, we are disgusting.

Me:
Oh my god. You are too sweet. Stop
You are sickeningly cute.

Her:
You are disgustingly awesome. Just staaahhhp

After awhile we hit it and go to sleep.

On Saturday morning, Luke and I run up Horsetooth Mountain, come back, and head to a concert called Black Violin with Amanda. It's a great time, Amanda's all smiley and gorgeous. We grab some food and coffee after, walking around downtown.

In a shop, Amanda mentions this artsy sand thingy that she really liked, and wish she had enough money to splurge on (it's like $30). I immediately (and secretly) jot this down in my phone. In a couple months, when she'll have forgotten about it, I'll surprise her.

She mentions how she crashed her bike the other day. She's fine, but her bike is all sorts of fucked up.

I jot this down too.

Luke and I head back to do some lab work, and I fix her fucked up handlebars. Her back brakes are still fucked up.

Luke, Mandy and I head to dinner. Afterwards, we all go back to my house with some pumpkin beers and a plan to sit around the fire. Amanda comes by after work. The 4 of us sit around the fire, and sing songs while I play the guitar. This goes on for the rest of the night.

Amanda and I grab food at around midnight after. She shows me a beautiful song by Carla Bruni? Really pretty song.

She drops me back off, Luke leaves in the morning.

I wake up on Sunday, rejuvenated and immediately focus on charging forward with the business plan. In the shower, I think up of the side products I want to offer with my first product. I hop out of the shower, jot down all my notes, and focus on the next step in implementation:

Finish VSL transcript. Record it.
Create small side products to up the value of the main product.
Re-edit the main product to see if there's any way I can improve it, or make it more likely that it will get the reader results.
Implement the whole thing on Click Funnels.

Oh yeah, and I must do PhD work. Falling behind in that.

Read a whole bunch of copy from the site that DB showed me. Learning a lot of valuable information.

LET'S GO!!

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This is a little too much, actually.

You don't have to go that far into this. And you risk kind of sounding like a weirdo robot. Not necessarily here, because he's your best friend, but most people will start to have the "Cookoo" alarm bells going off if you get this deep into it.

This would be equally effective:

"Yeah dude, if you really want to do this and think you can dedicate the time to it... I'll hook you up with a free copy. But you have to read it and put it to use. I mean it. You have to actually follow-through. Cool?"

If he agrees, whether implicitly by just accepting the book or explicitly by saying he's in, the foundation is set and you can avoid all the mumbo-jumbo speak.

You should post your VSL script, or PM me. I'm keen to see it.

Awesome, thanks for the advice. Still toying with this and trying to figure it out. I will send you the script when I'm done for sure.

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In a completely unrelated topic, here are some amazing sentences from literature:

“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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YOOOOOO!!!!!

VSL transcript is finished. FUCK YEAH. It's 5000 words, which should translate to about 40 minutes max of speech.

Next step: Finish all the side products and record the audio for the VSL. Then see if there's a cheap way to get someone on Fiverr or somewhere to put together a video for it. If not, then I'll have to put it together on my own.

The thought of dropping out of grad school is becoming more and more prevalent.

There's still a little bit of fear holding me back.

That, and I've got a free trip to Mexico to a science conference on November 11th. I've gotta get data for it to present, so I've got more lab work coming up, but everything non-business related is just so irrelevant and so uninteresting right now. Even when I do lab work or anything else, I'm constantly thinking about business.

How do I make the VSL better?

How do I make the product better?

How do I ensure that the client takes action and gets results?

What am I going to do to celebrate once I start making sales?

What's my life going to look like when I make it?

When I travel with girls I love, when I have complete social and financial freedom, when I can give value to thousands of guys everywhere, what will my life look like then?

Insane.

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Sup gangsta. How YOU doin?

I'm doing fantastic, thanks for asking.

I edited the VSL transcript a little bit, made it better. I'm ready to start recording the audio for it, and then going to post the job request for the video portion on Fiverr to see what the price range is.

Finished the first two side products, 2 more to go, and then the content is almost all ready!

Things still to do:
Finish last two side products.
Record audio for VSL.
Make Video for VSL.
Throw it all up on ClickFunnel, design all the pages there.
Link ClickBank to it.
Start driving traffic to the page through YouTube, this forum, Facebook, and clickBank hoplinks.

Even if no sales get made, I'll enlist people on to an email newsletter listserve, and that'll be my platform. From there, I can give daily value, tips and advice, and launch sales from there.

Called Hannah to chat business, she keeps telling me to slow down. She wants me to take the slow, safe route and stay in graduate school, where I do have a measly income. I'm in favor of burning the bridges and plowing headfirst into this.

Went to Spanish club with Amanda. We flirted, chatted with the group, it was fun. She asked me to walk her to her car. I did. She drove me home, and then we met up again at the library.

She apparently left all her shit at home, so she leaves shortly thereafter, and sends me an apology text. I don't give a shit, I'm so focused on my business.

I text Alyssa. She shows up and we chat a bit, she apparently needs chemistry help the next 2 days, so I'll probably be studying with her.

This business thing is nearing launch. Get excited.

I haven't even released the name of the product, or what it's going to do yet.

So here's a little teaser:

What if there's a way to attract women just by opening your mouth and talking?

What if all it takes is 3 seconds of communication before a girl starts wanting you?

What if you always know what to say, can make a girl laugh on command, and can never run out of things to say?

What if every single girl you talked to became attracted to you?

Yes, this is all possible.

I show you how, inside Badass Verbal Mastery.

It's not available to the public yet, but stay tuned. It will be soon.

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Ok, it looks like I'll be making my VSL on my own, although all it really takes is making a powerpoint, and then recording the screen and audio at the same time.

My first draft of the VSL transcript, I thought was pretty ballin', but I was doing some research, and I stumbled across the dude the CREATED VSL's. Genius level shit. Watched some of his content, and realized that I have NO FUCKING CLUE what I'm doing. Promptly put 10 hours of audio of this dude on my iPhone and am going to go through and re-edit my VSL transcript with all the new knowledge I gained. This is fucking crazy, there's so much to learn and so little time.

Well, there's time. But I just feel the urge, the rush, the drive to do this shit as fast as possible.

The good thing is now I almost WANT to do PhD lab work because that'll give me the chance to listen to all this audio material.

Things with Amanda have quieted down in the past couple days, she's been overwhelmed with work and tired and grumpy. That's fine.

I studied with Alyssa last night. I met her and her friend Mckenna at the library, where we did a bunch of chemistry studying. Alyssa's been flirting over text with me, and in person. Mckenna is a definite cutie, and is showing interest signs right off the bat. These girls are fun, I'll probably study with them in the library some more.

There's a scary movie tonight, and Cassandra texted me to make sure I was going. These girls are relentless.

All three of these girls are uber cuties. Every day I'm grateful for my journey and what it's brought me. Just hanging out with these girls, flirting and having fun, is something that I enjoy and have to remind myself to be grateful that I was able to take the journey to get to this point, where this is fun, easy, and abundant.

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Going through this guy's VSL formula stuff and holy shit. Mind blown. Tossing out my transcript, it's dogshit. Well, not complete dogshit, as I intuitively followed what I had seen, but I can tighten it up a lot more.

I'm tossing ALL of it out. Yup. That's 5000 words, half a week of typing the ENTIRE day, out. I'm gladly tossing it out and starting over because I'm not going to put something shitty out, I'm going to put something amazing out. I'm furiously taking notes on this VSL formula, and once I go through it, am going to write out a completely new transcript.

This is insane.

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I've studied and dissected 4/5 of the informational videos on VSL's produced by the guru, am going to devour the last one today. Then I'm going to rewrite my transcript through his formula.

I'm also switching my sales hook around and changing the branding, all for the better. Although the process is slower because of all this, the end result will be better.

Last night I went to Craig's house for Back to the Future and 28 days later. About 15 ish people showed up. Cassandra sat right next to me on the couch, started flirting and touching, and it got pretty comfy. A lot of people were sitting on the couch so we were smushed up against each other and half on top of each other the whole second movie.

Nothing was blatantly sexual, though, as it was in a big crowd, and it could still be interpreted as friends.

This was a lot of flirtation, and she asked me to go running on Saturday, AND to go to the blues thing tonight.

I gotta make sure not to think with my cock. This girl is very cute.

I called Amanda after, and we chatted. She sounded happy. She snapchatted me after, asking if I could take her on a hot date. I told I'd love to, when's a good time? Then she said give her a sec, she's not sure, and then never responded after that. In the morning, she sent me a snap saying it was a beautiful morning.

Such validation seeking bullshit. Think she just wanted the validation of the hot date thing, and then realized, oh wait, I don't have time for anything. Yep.

Eh. There's so many other cute girls I could be dating and banging.

Whatever, I don't give a shit. I've stopped caring. If she wants to continue this shit then I'm gonna let her pursue. I've got too much on my plate right now, and too many other girls chasing me for me to care or invest.

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I'm sort of falling into a negative thought pattern with Amanda. Developing negative emotions towards her, towards the relationship.

She asked me 10 minutes into the tango time:

"tango tonight?"

I told her I wasn't going to make it tonight, I was finishing up some work. Which was true. I'm channeling my frustration into work on this VSL, and it's dissipating it.

Lauren, the girl that was hitting on me a couple weekends ago, sent me a text in a group text with like 4 other people asking me if I wanted to come to her birthday dinner, and then go out to old town with costumes after. Hell yes.

I'm close to not caring, Amanda just has spans where she just hermits up. I haven't reacted negatively or anything at all, I can just feel the bad thoughts forming, and am channeling everything productively so I don't lash out.

If another cute girl gives me tons of interest, though, I'm close to the point of just saying fuck it.

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Last night was fun!

Amanda texted me after she finished with tango, asking if I wanted to come to her lab and study. I told her I was at a blues night thingy (truth).

I show up at blues and have a ton of fun with:

Cassandra
Jay
Jesse
Mikaila
Sasha
Allison
Mark
Erik
Colin
Jasmine
Jasmine's friend Cass

Cassandra if flirting heavily with me, telling me I'm cute and grabbing my arm a bunch, etc. etc. Allison is rolling her eyes.

Afterwards we all go over to Jasmine's house. Everyone else does some smoking, we all sit around the fire and I play the guitar. We sing songs until 1:30. Tons of fun.

In the morning, Cassandra texts me:

Ning. Help a friend out. If I ever want to smoke again. Slap me so hard. Thank you, dearly.

Me:
Hahahaha will do

Her:
Pot hangovers are real.

Me:
Cure it with more drinking tonight. My friend's having a birthday dinner thingy around 6:30

Her:
Uggg... haha. I was thinking of keeping it low key tonight. Maybe a few friends here to chill. But. You never know...
Keep me posted.

Me:
Hahahaha I will.

Today, I've got a lot of school related work, but I'm going to try to squeeze in some work on the VSL. The new one, draft 2, is started, and I'm closely following the guru's format. I'm pretty psyched about this, as I'm excited about converting with this one. I decided to add a module and change the sales hook, changing the title of the book, to create a unique selling point.

I'm meeting with a friend who retired at the age of 30, to learn his journey today, at 12:30. Gettin' that all important #environmentalexposure. Tonight's gonna be sick, gotta find me a costume to troll old town with Lauren. Let's do this.

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Friday for Halloween,

Amanda texts me around 5:30 to hang out before her work. We check out a reptile / insect event on campus, see a bunch of cool animals, and then she shows me around her work place. It's flirty, fun, and she mentions how she didn't get to see me all week, how dare I have work the night before!

After that, I meet up with Lauren and a bunch of her friends for dinner. It's Lauren's birthday dinner. I destroy a half rack of ribs and self amuse the whole time, it's fun, but I'm bored with these people.

Lauren's hot, but meh in terms of personality.

Afterwards, I meet up with Amanda again. We go on a romantic walk around campus, and it's late, so all the buildings are dead. We do some exploring, and start making out in the buildings, checking them off one by one. It's fun.

I LOVE the move where you just (gently but firmly) slam a girl up against a wall, make out with her, and hold her hands above her head. It's just a dominant / submissive move.

Some girl walks by us and we break apart giggling. The girl hides a smile. I tell her, "You didn't see that." Smirk. Giggle. Boom.

Afterwards I drop Amanda off at her car and head downtown. I meet up with Lauren and her crew at Trailhead. Flirt a little with an average looking Asian girl. Everyone there just bores me. I would rather be working on my VSL, which I basically do, tapping notes into my phone the whole time.

Note: I'm about 2/3 of the way done with the second draft of the VSL. It's WAY better, and I'm psyched to start recording it this week.

Afterwards, I call it a night.

Amanda and I flirt over Snapchat on Saturday, while I basically do lab work and VSL stuff all day. Around 4:30, I head over to her lab, and we do work together for like 3 hours.

I go to the bathroom, and she jumps out with a gorilla mask to scare me as I walk out. Lol.

I go on a run after, and then take Amanda to Allison's Halloween party after.

I go as a Mormon, she goes as a lady gangster.

The part is awesome, super fun. We both chat, flirt, and have fun, playing foosball, speaking Spanish, and eating food. A bunch of people are there, and Amanda is basically reintroduced for the first time to my friend group since the breakup.

I win the ping pong tournament, and get a glass with owl decorations on it as the prize. #GoChina

Afterwards, we head back, I drop Amanda off at her car, and we start making out in the car. It starts getting hot and heavy, and our hands start roaming. She guides my hand into her bra, and then between her legs. I rub her chicken fajita through her pants, and then put my hand in her underwear and start playing with her happy button.

She's moaning and writhing in my minivan in the middle of the parking lot, it's crazy.

We take her pants and underwear down a bit so I have better access, and I continue. She starts moaning in Spanish. Wtf?

We move to the backseat. This continues for awhile, I don't think she cums, and then we end up cuddling for a bit. We start talking a bit, she has a negative reaction, but the reactions are getting better and better. This one barely last a couple minutes, and was very mild. I was able to flip it around immediately, and we start flirting, laughing, and having fun again.

She tells me that no one's ever seen that much of her body before.

I ask her if she's insecure about her body at all. She mentions her nose and her tricep flab (which there isn't any). I laugh. Even perfect looking girls have insecurities.

We eventually call it a night, and she drives home.

The whole ordeal took about 2 hours.

In the morning, she messages me:
Ning, I don't feel well. And this has everything to do about last night
I'm going to work, so I'll be out of communication for the commute. But I think I need to talk about it

I message her back, telling her I'd be glad to talk about it. That's coming up this afternoon.

Hope everyone had a good Halloween!

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The talk went fine, she already felt better by the time that we talked.

We talked about the whole episode, and even though she felt awkward talking about it, she was comfortable enough to have that conversation, which is good.

I told her I'm comfortable with whatever she decides, she tells me that that's reassuring, she just is thinking and trying to figure out what she wants. I suspect though, that since she just got a taste, she's gonna want more.

She told me that the reaction she had wasn't even disgust / shame based any more, she just was super dehydrated and felt gross because she hadn't showered.

We studied together, with her resting her legs on mine, and it was all very comfortable.

This morning, she told me that she got probably about 3.5 hours of sleep.

I'm gonna do this a girl a favor and try to persuade / influence her to sleep more. This shit is not healthy at all.

I'm gonna brainstorm my plan here.

First, gonna plant the seed.

We talked a little bit about sleep over Facebook, but I basically just empathized with her. I'm gonna start out my planting the idea that sleep is important:

"I don't know how you do it, when I get a bad night's sleep my work quality and efficiency just plummets. If I go like a week with bad sleep, it takes me waaaaay longer to study something then if I'm well rested."

"I heard a story about XYZ girl in medical school today, she was struggling blah blah blah and then they had a lecture on sleep in the psychology section blah blah blah she changed and now she's actually doing better and using less time on blah blah blah"

Then, later, a challenge:

"You know, I've known lots of high-achieving pre-med students out there. So many are stressed out and sleep deprived, and I get it. They're taking the most credits, doing the most extra-curriculars, etc. etc. I noticed a weird thing... some of them actually prioritize sleep, and they tell me that it's actually helped them do better in classes by actually spending LESS time studying."

Then, as soon as she does get a night of good sleep (she does every once in awhile, like once a week or something):

"Wow, is Amanda becoming someone who actually sleeps? Good for you. How do you feel?" -commitment / consistency

Later:

"I'm glad you've become someone who actually values sleep, instead of someone who just walks around tired all day like a zombie." -more commitment consistency

That's sort of the plan. Any additional thoughts / advice on this welcome.

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