Don't Trust Your Gut
The Offline Dating Method: How to Attract a Great Guy in the Real World
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Plenty of basic, sub-profound questions lurk in other minds, too.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.
This is a sure-fire technique, and it tells you important things about people you can’t learn any other way. A person’s choice of a spouse—or if they aren’t married, their closest lifelong partner—is much more revealing than anything they say or do in public.
This choice tells you about their own
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Romantic choices can be troublingly mechanical and impulsive for those who haven’t studied themselves. Here’s the impulse that’s going to kick off our discussion: people tend to find partners who soothe their deepest insecurities.
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Sometimes our gut, when not guided by careful computer analysis, can be dead wrong. We can get blinded by our own experiences and prejudices.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
Men seek more replication value than survival value from women, and women seek more survival value than replication value from men.