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I think you’ve explicated this topic well, but I would add some additional points to your model.
Along with status and social skills there is something like emotional mastery/inner state/self-amusement. It is the ability to reframe situations and remain in a positive mood regardless of the external environment. Instead of interpreting events as negative/neutral you take a perspective on them this is positive and/or gives you agency. If something goes wrong you might laugh, propose a solution, not be bothered, or behave as though the universe is teaching you an important lesson so that you may become wiser. You do not want to react to negative situations by getting angry or showing that you have no agency in the situation. This is a very complex topic and I’m not summarizing it well. It is not the same as being out of touch with your emotions.
You need to understand the social media landscape/algorithm that your potential partners are exposed to. Imagine how much time they spend on social media and what they are being shown – better yet have a female friend show you her feed. Among other things you will see lots of encouragement for her to remain single, relationship advice to view the men as suspicious and to be vigilant for red flags (often dubiously defined red flags), and general other content designed to make her doubt herself so that she needs to buy things and/or stay on social media for validation. Specific content examples might include the Vogue article, “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now” or her friend celebrating singlehood and getting a bunch of validation for it. You have to understand how constant exposure to this content changes women.
Finally, looking at this advice from depth psychology perspective it is forcing men to present a specific persona that doesn’t reflect their true self. Often this causes problems in the future when men realize that they are only liked for what they produce and how they navigate social situations. If they encounter misfortune (extended unemployment, illness) then they may find the woman loses interest and doesn’t want to support him as he navigates his problems.
This is essentially what a therapist will teach you. For reference: https://www.amazon.com/Feeling-Good-New-Mood-Therapy/dp/0380810336
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It's possible for most men to learn to perform personas that have ready access to relationships and, yes, casual sex. But for me, although I succeeded at that, it was a fool's errand because it confused a terminal goal (finding someone who brings me joy in sharing a monogamous, lifelong relationship) with proximal ones (having sex; being able to wear the label "has a girlfriend"). It's an easy mistake to make, because one requires the other. But a lot of the strategies offered work against the terminal goal, because you're just learning to perform a persona, and, at least in my case, any benefit in dating you get from that isn't anything that will lead to the relationship you want.
Its kind of maddening that optimizing for simply attracting women and having sex with them will, in the extremis, tend to pull you further from your goal of getting that stable, devoted partner you can share a life with.
You'd think "Oh I'll just acquire as much female interest as possible and then winnow down my options and pick a good one."
But the factors that will lead you to encounter and appeal to the 'good ones' are some of the first ones you'd discard in the goal of finding ones willing to sleep with you quickly. You are filtering out the ones that would be best suited as life partners. So you suddenly find that 'winnowing down' a field of bad options just leaves you with bad options.
And having a mentality of "commitment bad" is core to being a player, so there's a direct paradox there. If you DO manage to attract a decent woman, your own internalized reluctance to commit will be a stumbling block for you.
But you still have to be good enough at the skills that make women attracted to get the one worth keeping, you just can't keep going down that easy path that this suggests.
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