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Personality – The Third Pillar of Attraction (Part 2 – Psychological Attraction)

PART 2: PSYCHOLOGICAL ATTRACTION As we discussed in Part 1, pheromones and intelligence lay the ground work for Chemistry to occur. But it is psychology itself that brings two people together, and that is what we will explore now. Our minds are wired in distinct ways, and that wiring determines whether we are drawn to […]

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Personality – The Third Pillar of Attraction (Part 1 – Pheromones + Intelligence)

PART ONE: PHEROMONES AND INTELLIGENCE Previously in our Three Pillars of Attraction series we capped off the Second Pillar of Attraction, Persona. Now we’re going to finally finish it by tackling Personality. The first thing to understand about Personality is that it is fundamentally different from the other two pillars of attraction. It operates in

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The Manosphere Ghetto

Nabeel Azeez — the marketing savant who runs drop-kick copy — tweeted out a quote today I had totally forgotten, but got the gears in my mind turning. It was a comment Mike Cernovich made to Roosh V a few years before his big ascent into media stardom: “I’ve got to get out of the manosphere ghetto.” Most

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The Cost Of Numbing Yourself

The other day a tragedy happened. A good friend of my wife and I — one of the coolest, most loving, funny people we knew — died. He was 35. The cause? Alcoholism. He got checked into the hospital earlier this summer with cirrhosis, and almost died then. The rest of the summer he was

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What’s Behind The Beta

People talk about Alpha and Beta a lot as ways to indicate a woman’s sexual responsiveness to a man. Generally this is shorthand for the “lover-provider” paradigm — the Alphas of course being the lovers, the Betas the providers. This is a useful heuristic in many ways (and a great rhetorical tool, especially if you’re

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