Helping Nerds Get The Girl
One thing that anyone who is into advice columns – either as a fan or as a columnist - will notice is that letters tend to come in patterns. It’s not surprising, really… as freakish and unique as we all feel our problems are, 9 times out of 10, they’re much more common than we’d [...]
Whenever you’re trying to develop a new skill, regardless of whether it’s learning a new language, playing a sport, learning an instrument or trying to get better at dating, you go through several distinct stages. In the first stage, you’re practically fumbling in the dark. You have only the vaguest idea of what you’re doing, [...]
Getting better at dating is hard enough. It gets even harder when it feels like your own mind is fighting back against your attempts to improve yourself. When I was younger, I used to be a chronic insomniac. I’d be physically tired, but I could never actually get to sleep; my body would be exhausted [...]
In the course of trying to get better at dating, there will inevitably be times where someone in your life is going to give you what is possibly the most useless dating advice ever: “Just be yourself”. After all, presumably you want someone who wants you for you and not whatever dubious achievements you may [...]
I was in Los Angeles last week while I was on vacation – a mix of professional development, visiting friends, chilling out (literally!) on the beach at Malibu and indulging my lifelong love of the Disney theme parks. I spent a great deal of time with my friend Bert, a working actor, a born showman [...]
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