5/ You have no skills and you're low status? Buy a cheap guitar and take lessons. Sign up for blacksmithing through your local adult ed. Take a woodturning class. Learn glass blowing. Start hiking. Learn to carve stone. Build a garden shed. Buy a shop manual and fix a car.
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16/ A related scenario: Your eyes tell you that everything is soothing and good. Your ears tell you that there is pleasant music. Maybe there's just a slight crackling sound, but that's maybe nothing. But your nose tells you that there's smoke. Now you face a question:
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17/ Do you want to reach up and touch the blindfold? Do rip it off? Do you take off the headphones? If you do, you may very well see a fire. And realizing that you're in a burning building is very very scary - much scarier than where you are right now.
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18/ If you pull off the blindfold and the headphones and DO learn that you're in a burning building, you have a lot of work ahead of you. You've gotta break out a window, climb down three stories of gutter, try not to fall. Scary stuff! ...but would you rather do that -
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20/ Good thread. I endorse / accept everything here. A spare donut tire is not as good as a real tire, but it's a useful tool to get you 100 miles to the tire shop. Prozac may help you deal with bad crap for 6 months as you fix it. https://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1082676209685839872 …
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21/ Status is malleable. Hit the gym. Learn how to play guitar.https://twitter.com/MantisVersus/status/1082842791472971777?s=19 …
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22/ Getting better at painting your Warhammer minis will not pull women. Learning guitar WILL.https://twitter.com/MantisVersus/status/1083127080882192384 …
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23/ Also, demonstrating competence in a hobby in front of women (even non guitar) works very well. About 8 years back I had a toasty 19 year old throwing herself at 39 yo me because I signed up for a clay arts / pottery class and I was pretty darned good at the wheel.
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24/ I mean, admittedly, she was crazy. But if a 39 year old guy is looking for 19 year old women (I wasn't) that's ... kinda part of what you're looking for, I think?
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Doctors have a hammer (drugs), so everything starts to look like a nail.
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Well, most patients want solutions that can be fixed with that hammer. They don't want to hear "exercise, stop eating garbage, and get away from toxic people", they want to hear "take this magic pill and everything will be better".
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