Paths / Relationships

The Inner Game of Dating.

The way to learn something properly. On the schedule you actually have. About what you actually want to understand.

A 7-day path. Fifteen minutes a day.

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The premise

Attractiveness is downstream of self-respect.

There is an entire industry that promises to teach you how to be more attractive to romantic partners. Almost none of it works. Mark Manson, Robert Glover, and Nathaniel Branden each made the same argument, in different forms, against the same industry. Attraction is not produced by techniques applied externally. It is produced by the kind of person you become internally. Seven days of small daily lessons on the inner work that all dating advice depends on, but rarely starts with.

Day 1, free

The underneath-work.

Day 1 names the three writers and the single shared argument underneath their different vocabularies. Adult partnership requires adult selves. The dating-advice industry mostly skips the work that produces them. You will leave Day 1 with the diagnosis the rest of the week is the cure for.

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The 7-day arc

Three writers, seven days, one argument.

01
The underneath-work.
Why most dating advice fails, and what the three writers share.
15 min
02
Vulnerability as the move.
Manson on what he learned after leaving the PUA community.
15 min
03
Three foundations of honest dating.
Honest living, honest action, honest communication.
15 min
04
The Nice Guy Syndrome.
Glover's diagnosis of the covert-exchange strategy.
15 min
05
Recovery — becoming integrated.
Reclaiming needs, owning desires, building male friendships.
15 min
06
The six pillars underneath everything.
Branden on self-esteem as practice, not feeling.
15 min
07
The inner game is the whole game.
Three writers, one conclusion, and what it asks of you.
15 min