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Chapter 1: How Women Think

Women Don’t Know What They Want

 

Do you find yourself listening to the advice of female friends about

 

how to attract women and often find that it doesn’t work? I did for

 

years. I even made the ultimate mistake of asking girls I was dating

 

how I should act. Many guys have the mentality that if they want to

 

learn about what women want, they should ask women. It seems

 

logical enough but it doesn’t work for one major reason – Women

 

don’t know what they want! It’s a sad reality that very few women will

 

actually admit to you. A woman’s emotions are all over the place

 

because of hormones and thousands of years of genetic coding. She

 

is constantly battling whether to follow primal urges or to listen to

 

advice from women’s magazines or friends, or her conscience. One

 

day she might be in the mood for a sensitive guy, the next a funny

 

guy, then a week later she’s in the mood for a musician type. One

 

day she wants a guy who’s domineering and the next a sweet

 

sensitive guy who gives her all the space in the world.

 

To prove this, all we need to do is look at the book "Blink" written by Malcolm Gladwell. In the book he examines what he calls "The power

 

of thinking without thinking". The concept is that the reasons that we

 

SAY we do things are often very different than the reasons we

 

actually do them. Gladwell talks about a study done by two Columbia

 

University professors who set up speed dating events in New York

 

City. The men at the events were given 6 minutes to talk to eight

 

different women to see if there was an attraction there. After meeting

 

everyone in the room, the men and women were given a secret ballot

 

to check off which people they were interested in. If both people

 

checked off each other, they were given each others' email

 

addresses. The professors asked all of the women to fill out a

 

questionnaire before each speed dating event, after the event, one

 

month later and six months later. The questionnaire asked the

 

women to rate what they were looking for in a mate on a scale of 1 to

 

10. The categories are: Attractiveness, shared Interests, sense of

 

humor, sincerity, intelligence and ambition. After each 6 minute date,

 

they were also asked to rate the person they just dated on the same

 

scale. After repeating this "experiment" an innumerous amount of

 

times what the professors found was astounding. The questionnaire

 

that the women filled out about what they were looking for in a mate and the guys that they actually selected had absolutely no correlation.

 

In fact, what they said they wanted in a man and the men they

 

choose were often completely opposite. Another amazing observation

 

made by the professors was that the women's ranking order of what

 

they were looking for often changed the day after the event. They

 

found that if a woman met a few guys that she liked who were more

 

"attractive and funny" than "sincere and intelligent", the next day

 

when she filled out the same questionnaire, her preference order

 

would completely change. She'd all of a sudden rank attractive and

 

funny higher than sincere and intelligent. After doing this experiment

 

with thousands of women, this pattern held true in almost all cases!

 

Another thing that happened in almost all of these cases was that

 

when filling out the same questionnaire one month later they'd go

 

back to the original answers they had chosen the first day they filled

 

the questionnaire out.

 

This doesn't necessarily mean that women have no idea what they

 

want, it's just incomplete. This is where you step in with your

 

confidence and technique to "complete" it. The description that she

 

starts with of her ideal mate is her conscious ideal. But much of this goes out the window when subconscious thought, feelings and

 

genetic programming kick in. This is why you need to take what a

 

woman says about what she wants in a man with a grain of salt.

 

Never assume that you're not her type, even if she says it. YOU can

 

easily become the type of man she wants.

 

Throw Logic Out the Window

 

I'm about to tell about a mistake that 99% of guys (who haven't read

 

this book) make when trying to get a woman to like them. They try to

 

use logic to appeal to women. They try to reason their way into to her

 

pants. This will NEVER work. Why? Because women work very

 

differently then men. The sooner you understand and accept that the

 

better off you’ll be. Women are not creatures of logic - they are

 

creatures of FEELING. They don't use their brains to feel attraction

 

and most men spend the majority of their time trying to appeal to her

 

brain instead of making her feel. You can never convince a woman to

 

have feelings for you if she doesn't. Watching a guy try to convince a

 

girl to like him can be fun to watch. It’ll never work because women

 

are genetically programmed to use feeling, not logic, as their primary gauge of attraction.