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The Inner Game of Dating

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 — that attraction is produced by the kind of person you become internally.

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The premise

Attractiveness is downstream of self-respect.

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.

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

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