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Isabel Behncke Interview

The Mating Grounds Podcast

CHAPTER

Self Handicapping

If you're old, if you're trying to project all these things, strength and all, you know, like accomplishment and and power, that's unattractive. But if you pare that with actual honest vulnerability, then you can become very attractive to a woman. Because then in her mind, she's like, ok, this guy actually is strong because he's willing to trust me with these things that b like youou yoyou agree with eter completely. That relates to to an aspect of play that we call self handicapping. So when it's basically you are very strong, but you voluntarily restrict your strength,. You make yourself w weaker and verticom to play with

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