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Why VERY INTELLIGENT Men Fail With Women
By David DeAngelo
I've been teaching men how to become more successful with women and
dating for a several years now... and one "problem scenario" just keeps coming up
OVER AND OVER... and OVER and OVER and OVER again...
...and it's really
amazes me.
I'm going to refer to it as "The Genius Failure
Paradox".
"The Genius Failure Paradox" is the tendency for UNUSUALLY
intelligent men to have very LOW levels of success with women and
dating.
After contemplating this particular paradox, discussing it, and
working on it for an awesome amount of time, I'd like to share my thoughts about it
with you.
I assume that if you've read this far, then you see probably
yourself as smarter than the average guy.
You know that you're a little
different than other guys.
You probably realized at a young age that you saw
things differently, and thought differently than others in school...
And
you've probably realized that your smart mind gives you an advantage over others in
many areas of life...
Your smart mind gives you a particular type of
advantage that can be very, very powerful in life: YOU'RE USUALLY
RIGHT.
Smart people get used to being "right", because they usually ARE
right.
And when you're RIGHT more often than others, you can get ahead in
many situations.
But unfortunately, this smart mind of yours can actually be
WORSE than USELESS when it comes to a key area of life:
WOMEN AND
DATING.
By the way, I did say WORSE than useless.
It can actually be
like having a hammer when you need to tighten a bolt. If you use the tool you have
for the job, you'll most likely make the situation WORSE.
Of course, it's
hard for a smart guy to even IMAGINE a situation where his smart mind could HURT his
chances for success...
But trust me, this is one of those
situations.
So relax, open your smart mind, and let me share with you the ten
reasons why smart guys fail with women... and what to do about it.
REASON
#1: THEY'RE WRONG, BUT THEY CAN'T OR WON'T SEE IT OR ADMIT IT
I mentioned
that smart guys are used to being RIGHT in most situations.
And what do most
smart guys do when they come across a situation where they're WRONG?
They
find a new situation... one that fits their strength. They know they'll be right
next time, so they just walk away... knowing that it won't be long before they're
right again.
(OR they let the "problem situation" destroy them... more on
that later.)
Well, the BITCH about being wrong when it comes to women and
dating is THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUN AND HIDE.
There's no quick "I'm right"
around the next corner to make you feel better.
It only takes "failing" with
a few women in a row for a smart guy to see the pattern... and realize that
something isn't working.
Solution? Think harder.
A smart guy just
assumes that his logic must be good... so he just keeps thinking harder.
But
when no success comes, it really starts to become mentally
difficult.
Accepting that you're wrong is a VERY hard thing for a "smart
guy".
Accepting that you're not only wrong, but you have NO CLUE WHERE TO
EVEN START is even more difficult.
Ultimately, many smart guys come up with
the following logical conclusion:
I AM A SMART GUY, THEREFORE IF I CAN'T
FIGURE OUT HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL WITH WOMEN AND DATING, THEN THE PROBLEM MUST NOT BE
SOLVABLE OR WORTH SOLVING.
Try that on for a self-defeating
idea.
REASON #2: THEY'RE BLIND AND ARROGANT
In short, many smart
guys refuse to accept that a good, solid, workable answer could come from someone
"dumber" than them, so they discount any idea that comes from an "obviously less
intelligent person" before trying it.
Let me ask you a question:
If
you were going to be walking across Africa on foot, would you rather have your guide
be the guy on this planet with the highest I.Q., or a caveman who lived a million
years ago that had an I.Q. of about 50... but who grew up being chased by lions and
all kinds of animals that wanted to eat him all his life?
It's an
interesting question.
Now, hopefully you'd like to have the guide who isn't
the smartest guy around... but who has escaped from many, many dangerous situations
with deadly animals...
But now let me ask you:
If you'd like to learn
how to be more successful with women and dating, would you take advice from a guy
who isn't very intelligent, but who knows how to attract women?
There's
something about being smart that makes some guys unwilling to accept input, ideas,
or instruction from anyone who isn't either as smart or smarter than
them.
Well, any SMART GUY can see the folly in this particular approach...
once it's examined closely.
If you've been making this mistake, then you
need to STOP IT. Stop being an arrogant bastard, and open your eyes.
Look
around.
Learn from some "dumb" guys... and let them teach you how to get what
you REALLY want.
REASON #3: POOR SOCIAL SKILLS
It BLOWS MY MIND
how many smart guys I meet that just don't GET IT when it comes to basic social
skills.
It's as if they have logically reasoned that social skills are for
lower beings who need to play games... and not worth the time it would take to learn
them.
In fact, I believe that there are a lot of smart guys running around
this planet who don't even have "social skills" and "be a cool guy that people
like" in their "MENTAL MODEL" of what it could possibly take to be successful with
women and dating.
Social skills are just that... SKILLS.
They're not
social INFORMATION.
They're not social THEORIES.
They're social
SKILLS.
And you don't get them by THINKING about them. You get them by
GETTING them.
Excellent social skills are the foundation for good
communication with other humans... and if you don't have good social skills, you
dramatically lower your chances for success with women.
REASON #4: THEY
PSYCH THEMSELVES OUT
Smart guys do something that fascinates the hell out of
me...
They come up with all the reasons why everything WON'T WORK when it
comes to women and dating.
They actually figure out why what they would like
to do will probably fail...
They use their amazing creative imaginations to
imagine all kinds of horrible pictures and scenes... and then they use those
imaginary outcomes to create negative emotions... which ultimately stop them from
having success with women and dating.
THEY DON'T EVEN TRY.
Now, if
you've thought something through and come up with a good reason why it would fail,
it makes sense to not do it, right?
I mean, why would you want to do things
that are going to fail?
It's sound logic, but HORRIBLE thinking when it
comes to the REAL WORLD... and success with women.
Because smart guys don't
UNDERSTAND women, and they don't UNDERSTAND what it takes to be successful with
women, they are working with bad figures. They're wrong before they even start
figuring!
Using your mind to come up with all the reasons why things won't
work in this area of your life leads to ULTIMATE FAILURE.
You must learn to
overcome this habit if you have it.
REASON #5: THEY SEEK ONLY
"INFORMATIONAL SOLUTIONS"
What does a smart guy do when he runs into a
problem... or he needs to figure something out?
He looks for INFORMATION to
help him solve the problem.
MORE INFORMATION is always the
answer.
Information is the friend of a smart guy.
Got a strange virus
on your computer? Just hop on the internet and search for how to eliminate
it.
Don't know how to change the alternator on your car? No prob. Just buy
the manual and turn to page 147.
Don't know the definition of a word? Open
up your dictionary.
MORE INFORMATION solves the problem.
So what do
smart guys do when it comes to overcoming a problem with women?
They want
MORE INFORMATION.
They think the answer lies in learning just ONE MORE
TECHNIQUE... or one more magic concept.
Well what if there were a situation
in life where the "get more information" strategy actually made things
WORSE?
How would you even know that it was making things worse?
Now, I
don't want to suggest that learning more about how to be successful with women is a
bad thing. It's not.
But if you have a problem that is EMOTIONAL or PHYSICAL
in nature, then reading five million theories on it probably isn't going to help
you very much.
You need to get out in the real world and try some
stuff!
You need to look at the REAL problem... the ROOT of the
problem.
When it comes to women and dating, there's a very good chance that
you have MORE than enough "information".
Smart guys often use "more
information" to distract them from TAKING ACTION.
I've heard this referred
to as "Creative Avoidance".
Nod silently if you've ever figured out a
creative way to avoid facing something in your life.
Good, thank
you.
REASON #6: THEY FOCUS ON LOGIC INSTEAD OF EMOTION
NEWS JUST
IN: Women don't feel ATTRACTION for men who make them THINK.
Women feel
ATTRACTION for men who make them FEEL.
So what do most smart guys do when
they first meet a woman?
EXACTLY!
They get into a LOGICAL
CONVERSATION.
I'm shaking my head right now...
Smart men try to
engage women in LOGICAL conversations and interactions because that's where THEY
feel comfortable... not knowing that they're SHOOTING THELSEVES IN THE FOOT by
doing it!
Get this: A monkey sitting at a typewriter will type the collected
works of Shakespeare before you will make a woman feel ATTRACTION for you by
engaging her in logical conversation.
When you start a logical conversation
with a woman you've just met, you are basically taking out a NEON SIGN that says "I
don't get it when it comes to women" and putting it on your head.
Typical
"logical" conversations include talking about work, family, school, and jobs...
discussing politics, religion, weather... and anything that has to do with math,
science, or INTELLIGENCE.
On the other hand, if you start talking to a woman
and you say "OK, so tell me something... Why is it that all women say that they want
sweet, nice guys... but they all date sexy, selfish bad boys?" (and then make fun of
any answer she gives) you're having an EMOTIONAL conversation.
If you don't
know what I'm talking about, keep reading. You need more help than I
thought.
REASON #7: THEY'RE NOT USED TO THE CHALLENGE OF THE
MOMENT
Smart people usually have time to THINK about things.
If
you're taking a test, you can sit there and work out the answers.
If you
have a math problem, you can work on it until you've figured it out.
If
you're trying to fix something, you can keep working on it until it's
fixed.
Smart guys are used to being able to take at least a LITTLE bit of
time to prepare and show off their "good sides" in most situations.
Not so
with women...
If you don't know what to do at every step along the way,
you'll be shut down very quickly.
Women have an AMAZING "He doesn't get it"
radar system.
Women have all kinds of subtle and ingenious tests that they
throw at men to separate the "get its" from the "don't get its".
And if you
don't get it, then you're going to fail one of these tests VERY
quickly.
But the worst part is that you won't ever KNOW that you were being
tested... OR that you failed.
Smart guys aren't used to dealing with complex
EMOTIONAL and COMMUNICATION challenges in the moment... and especially the "women
and dating" kind.
One of they keys to becoming more successful with women and
dating is learning to handle all of the tests that women throw at you
effortlessly.
But before you can learn how to deal with the tests, you must
first learn how to communicate on an emotional level, how to demonstrate that you
have fundamental social skills, and how to keep your cool in the
moment.
REASON #8: THEY THINK THAT DOING "NICE" THINGS IS THE "SMART
WAY"
OK, let me ask you a trick question:
If I told you that you were
going to have a date with the supermodel of your choice, which of the following
would you choose as a "smart" way of preparing:
1) Find out what her favorite
type of flowers are, and show up with a dozen of them so she would be
"wowed".
2) Learn about her favorite travel destination so you could discuss
it with her.
3) Find out what her favorite type of food is so you could take
her to dinner... and she could see that you cared enough to choose something that
she enjoyed.
OK, time's up. Which did you choose?
Now, I already
mentioned that this was a TRICK question.
The answer is NONE OF THE
ABOVE.
But WHY?
These three options all seemed logical,
right?
I mean, why WOULDN'T you want to show up with her favorite
flowers?
Why WOULDN'T you want to talk about her favorite places to
travel?
Why WOULDN'T you want to take her to eat her favorite foods so she
enjoyed herself?
Go with me here...
Smart guys think that they're
being CLEVER when they do things like buying a woman her favorite flowers... and
bringing them to the FIRST DATE.
Right?
In their minds, they're
thinking "I'm going to be the guy who is thinking ahead... and I'm going to show
up with the flowers that I KNOW she loves... and she's going to see them and like
me more because of it".
Makes sense... good math, right?
Well the one
teensy-weensy mistake that these "smart" guys make is not realizing that it doesn't
actually take a smart person to think like this!
In fact, ANY jackass can
figure out how to kiss a woman's ass.
And guess what?
WOMEN KNOW
THIS!
And guess what else?
EVERY WUSSBAG DOES THIS STUFF.
An
intelligent guy, in his proud arrogance, will think he's being such the charmer by
using this "thoughtful" approach...
...and the woman he is chasing will
interpret it as just another Wussy who's trying to MANIPULATE her.
Ouch.
Another blow to intelligence.
MISTAKE #9: ALWAYS NEEDING TO BE THE
EXPERT
Have you ever met a smart guy who always needed to be
"right"?
Have you ever met someone who would actually argue with you about
something they knew nothing about... and make a fool of themselves because they just
couldn't shut their "smart mouths"?
Over the last few years helping guys
improve their success with women, I see this one pattern over and over
again...
Smart guys don't like to be "beginners" at ANYTHING.
They
don't like the idea of screwing up... especially if others are
watching.
They want to maintain this "smart guy" image of themselves... so
they try to always be "The Expert" at whatever they do.
Instead of saying
"Hey, you know what? I'm a beginner at this... how do I do it? What should I do
first? What next?"... and instead of being totally OK with screwing up, making
mistakes, and making a fool of themselves in front of others in order to
LEARN...
...they won't risk embarrassment, failure, or others thinking that
they're beginners... so they wind up ultimately FAILING.
MORE NEWS JUST IN:
It's OK to be a beginner.
MISTAKE #10: THEY CAN'T DEAL WITH FEAR AND
OTHER EMOTIONS
A smart guy's STRENGTH is his MIND.
His WEAKNESS is
often his EMOTIONS.
Smart guys are often IMMOBILIZED by FEAR.
Totally
stopped.
FROZEN.
And since many smart guys aren't comfortable dealing
with things they're not good at, they just repress or RUN away from
fear.
Many men would rather DIE in lonely isolation than admit that they
don't know how to deal with their emotions... or, GODFORBID, ask for
help!
Hey, I went for YEARS like this.
I know what it's
like.
But the reality is that any guy can learn to handle and even MASTER his
emotions (even fear)... if he just takes the time and effort to learn HOW to do
it.
If this is you, then do yourself a big favor... take the time. Take the
effort.
Don't worry about what anyone else thinks of you... it doesn't
matter.
What matters is you doing the things that YOU need to do FOR
YOU.
...I think the reason why I'm so fascinated with "The Genius Failure
Paradox" is because I have had to struggle with all of these issues for a lot of
years of my life.
Now, I'm not saying that I'm the smartest guy on the
planet...
But I don't think mamma raised no fool.
And it always
bothered the hell out of me that even though I was so good at figuring things out, I
couldn't figure WOMEN out.
Something tells me that you know what I'm
talking about.
Well, after beating my head against the wall for a few
years... trying all kinds of crazy "logical" stuff... I finally got the "bright"
idea to start studying guys who were "naturally" good with women.
Of course,
I found out that you could be both NOT SMART, and VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH WOMEN at the
same time.
I also learned that you can be SMART and VERY SUCCESSFUL WITH
WOMEN too.
By carefully studying what the "naturals" did with women... and
learning how they "thought" about the topic, I began to realize that success with
women wasn't entirely LOGICAL.
Much of what I learned was very tough for me
to accept... because my logical brain just didn't want to buy into it.
One
thing I saw was guys pushing women away from them... and having the women then chase
them in response.
Made no sense at all.
I saw guys tease beautiful
women and make jokes about them to their faces... and then watched those women
become "little girls" in response... unable to maintain their composure, and
therefore unable to maintain their manipulative power...
It took me quite a
long time, but I continued to learn, test, and refine what I was learning until I
personally figured out how to approach women in any situation... get any woman's
number I wanted anytime I wanted... date any type of woman I wanted...
...and
most importantly, GET RID of that "empty" feeling that I carried around my whole
life because I didn't know how to attract women.
And once I got this area of
my own life together, I decided to help other guys get this area of THEIR lives
together.
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Your Friend,
David
DeAngelo
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