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5 Ways To Become Someone Women Want To Date

September 2, 2020 by Dr. NerdLove Leave a Comment

I spend a lot of time working with men who want to get better at dating women. This ranges from guys who’re trying to recover from a bad break-up, guys who spend so much time in the Friend Zone that they could run for political office there and even men who’ve never so much as held hands with someone, never mind asked a woman out on a date. In all that time I’ve noticed something important:

The men who struggle the most with dating always — always — ask the wrong question. Every single time I’ve seen someone who says they can’t get a date, can’t talk to women or just have been cursed by the Universe to be Forever Alone, they inevitably compare themselves to other men. They treat dating like a competition; how can they be more desirable than their rivals? What can they do to keep other folks from “stealing” their girl? How, in pluperfect hell, can they get a date when Chad “20%” Thundercock is out there, rolling around and picking up 80% of the women like a weird, fleshy Cronenbergian version of Katamari Damacy?

🎶 Na naaa na na na na na nana na na na nana SQUISH 🎶

But that right there is the mistake. The issue that all of these guys have is that they’re so focused on their “competition” that they’ve missed the fundamental truth. Other guys aren’t your competition. Women aren’t comparing dudes in a spreadsheet and going with the guy who has the most points. You’re not in competition with other men; you’re in competition with a night at home, alone.

The question they need to ask isn’t “how can I be more attractive than other guys.” It’s “why would women want to date me, specifically?”

Because here’s the secret: being attractive to women isn’t about your face or your body. 90% of good looks is about presentation and hygiene. Being attractive is about how you make women feel when you’re around and the way they miss you when you’re gone. It’s being the person they can’t wait to hear from. The person they can relax around and rely on.

That doesn’t come from your face or abs. That comes from within.

Here are 5 things that you can do to become someone women want to date.

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Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Make New Friends?

April 9, 2018 by Dr. NerdLove Leave a Comment

Hey Doc,

I am a recent college graduate who is struggling to make new friends, and was hoping to hear your thoughts on this issue.

I currently have a small but solid group of friends left over from college, who I would describe as eccentric nerds and would-be intellectuals, as well as a SO. But, my SO and I will be moving out of state in the near future to a place where neither of us have any preexisting connections. In the past, I’ve met most of my friends through other friends, but now I’ll have to almost completely start over socially, and I really don’t know what I am going to do.

I’ve wanted to make new friends since graduating–if nothing else to practice before the big move–but even after reading your articles on the topic I’m still feeling at a loss as to how to do it. I’ve tried going out to bars and local events, but people at these places attend with their preexisting friends and don’t show much interest in talking to new people. I’ve also tried attending a few Meetups related to my interests, but at these most of the attendees are regulars mostly interested in socializing with other regulars.

To make things more difficult, I just don’t seem to click with the new people I do manage to interact with, even at events related to my interests. When I start talking to new people, the conversations mostly consist of awkward small talk, leading to me and the other person feeling awkward and causing the conversation to fizzle out. I just don’t feel like I have much in common with most people out in “the real world”, and I’m not sure where to find people that I do have more in common with. I did find (a few) people that I had more in common with in college, but after college it seems like they have become a lot harder to find.

I just don’t understand how people make new friends when they move to a new city and have to start over. Any advice would be much appreciated.

– At A Loss

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5 Steps To Having An Amazing New Year

January 1, 2018 by Dr. NerdLove 13 Comments

For many of us, 2017 was a mixed bag at best and a blasted hellscape at worst. But that’s over. Now it’s 2018 and if you’re like me, you’re blinking, bleary-eyed and hung-over into the dawn of a new year and wondering… what next?

“Could you… not type so loudly, Doc?”

Well, if you’re like many people, you’re thinking about your New Years resolutions. After all, what is a new year except a reason to look at the previous year and wonder how we can do better.

Now, I’m firmly on the record as being a “New Years Resolutions are awful” guy. It’s a cliche that they’re just invitations to failure and disappointment. After all, do we really need another list of reminders of things we’ve continued to fail at to nag at our souls?

But I am nothing if not an optimist and – as arbitrary as it is – the beginning of a new year is as good a time to want to make a change. But if you want to make your new year amazing, then the last thing you want to do is sabotage your resolutions before you can really begin them. So here are the 5 key steps to making this a happy – and amazing – new year and new you.

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Paging Dr. NerdLove Episode #48 – What Are The Fundamentals of Flirting?

October 5, 2017 by Dr. NerdLove 26 Comments

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One of the reasons why people get confused or frustrated with flirting is that they tend to get lost in the weeds when they want to learn how to flirt with someone.  We often misunderstand how flirting works or don’t know how to do it the right way.

Flirting isn’t about negging and you’re delivering backhanded “compliments” to lower somebody’s social value compared to yours and making them crave your approval. It’s not about showering someone with complements, or being sexual or getting them to think about or talk about sex. Flirting is all about the connection you build with someone and making that bond with their real, authentic self. 

There’s no one way to flirt, but there are some best practices when it comes to flirting, things that are fundamental to it no matter what your personal flirting style is. So this week we’re going to talk about the do’s and don’ts that make up the best practices and core components of successful flirting.

Show Highlights:

  • Understanding The Four Keys to Flirting Success
  • The Proper Way To Utilize Flirting
  • Why Negging, Teasing and Bantering Can Backfire… Badly
  • The Value of The Unexpected
  • Where, When and How To Flirt

…and so much more.

Related Links:

Instant Charisma

How to Use Humor In Your Flirting

Building Physical Chemistry

Chemistry and Emotional Engagement

How To Banter (Without Being An Asshole)

Finding Your Flirting Style


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How To Take Dating To The Next Level

August 14, 2017 by Dr. NerdLove 140 Comments

The process of getting better at dating can be a difficult one. There are a lot of self-limiting beliefs that can be hard to overcome – not the least of which being that you’re “stuck” at wherever you are and there’s nothing you can do. It’s part of the binary-view of social skills that guys tend to get brought up in; you’re good with women or you aren’t. Either you’re socially awkward or you aren’t. You’re popular… or you aren’t.

And of course, there’re a lot of people who buy into this. It’s a tempting narrative after all; when there’s no hope and no choice, you are relieved of all responsibility. You can point to the world at being unfair or complain that other people demonize your natural-if-awkwardly-expressed desires. It absolves you, in many ways, of having to do any self-examination. After all, if the world’s unfair, then isn’t it better to demand that the world change?

But that’s not how it works. That’s not how any of it works.

One of the things that I like to emphasize is that dating is a skill. And any skill can be improved with practice. The tricky part though, is that developing a skill can take time. If we buy into the axiomatic 10,000 hours for mastery… that’s a lot of time before you can get good at something. And with all the skills that can comprise a successful dating life… well, that’s going to take forever, isn’t it?

“Soon…”

No. No it isn’t.

Today, I’m going to teach you about how you can radically improve your social skills in almost no time. If you’re ready to shave off the time it takes to learn to be the dating master you know you can be… well, this week is for you.

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