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Ben Hart

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612 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

What do I see? It depends, right? I think this like idea of,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

What do I see? It depends, right? I think this like idea of,

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

femininity and masculinity has gotten a little overplayed but you can kind of see them go both sides right i can see you see more productive successful women in the workplace that have kind of developed what one would call or consider a little bit more of masculine traits and maybe you've seen that as a result as a response a lot of guys have sat back a little bit more and not been overly aggressive in their pursue in some sense because of a variety of reasons which we can get into but

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

femininity and masculinity has gotten a little overplayed but you can kind of see them go both sides right i can see you see more productive successful women in the workplace that have kind of developed what one would call or consider a little bit more of masculine traits and maybe you've seen that as a result as a response a lot of guys have sat back a little bit more and not been overly aggressive in their pursue in some sense because of a variety of reasons which we can get into but

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

femininity and masculinity has gotten a little overplayed but you can kind of see them go both sides right i can see you see more productive successful women in the workplace that have kind of developed what one would call or consider a little bit more of masculine traits and maybe you've seen that as a result as a response a lot of guys have sat back a little bit more and not been overly aggressive in their pursue in some sense because of a variety of reasons which we can get into but

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

I've seen a little bit of that, right? You've seen a little bit more of a lighter pull on men just because of like their jobs per se and what they do. And maybe the testosterone is going down. All these things are playing a role. And, you know, hypergamy tends to be typically more real than not. And there is that. And that affects how women and men choose for sure.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

I've seen a little bit of that, right? You've seen a little bit more of a lighter pull on men just because of like their jobs per se and what they do. And maybe the testosterone is going down. All these things are playing a role. And, you know, hypergamy tends to be typically more real than not. And there is that. And that affects how women and men choose for sure.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

I've seen a little bit of that, right? You've seen a little bit more of a lighter pull on men just because of like their jobs per se and what they do. And maybe the testosterone is going down. All these things are playing a role. And, you know, hypergamy tends to be typically more real than not. And there is that. And that affects how women and men choose for sure.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

That's a really hard balance. I'm not going to lie about that, right? Because guys don't have that same problem. So I have to acknowledge that first. Women tend to have that problem because they think of it as like a switch. I don't think of it as like a switch. I think of it as like you can... By the way, some of the most productive, successful women I know are...

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

That's a really hard balance. I'm not going to lie about that, right? Because guys don't have that same problem. So I have to acknowledge that first. Women tend to have that problem because they think of it as like a switch. I don't think of it as like a switch. I think of it as like you can... By the way, some of the most productive, successful women I know are...

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

That's a really hard balance. I'm not going to lie about that, right? Because guys don't have that same problem. So I have to acknowledge that first. Women tend to have that problem because they think of it as like a switch. I don't think of it as like a switch. I think of it as like you can... By the way, some of the most productive, successful women I know are...

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

highly actually more in their feminine because in my opinion i feel like the feminine controls the chessboard and they some people haven't really figured out how to use and they use it as like a competitive streak to like compete with men and then they want to like shut off the switch and that's difficult i think setting off that switch is hard to do and i don't think that's easy and i think about it very differently i think about you can be this way and you don't have to see a lot of girls will come in and say well he didn't make me feel like i could be feminine enough

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

highly actually more in their feminine because in my opinion i feel like the feminine controls the chessboard and they some people haven't really figured out how to use and they use it as like a competitive streak to like compete with men and then they want to like shut off the switch and that's difficult i think setting off that switch is hard to do and i don't think that's easy and i think about it very differently i think about you can be this way and you don't have to see a lot of girls will come in and say well he didn't make me feel like i could be feminine enough

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

highly actually more in their feminine because in my opinion i feel like the feminine controls the chessboard and they some people haven't really figured out how to use and they use it as like a competitive streak to like compete with men and then they want to like shut off the switch and that's difficult i think setting off that switch is hard to do and i don't think that's easy and i think about it very differently i think about you can be this way and you don't have to see a lot of girls will come in and say well he didn't make me feel like i could be feminine enough

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And I said, well, why is it so conditional? Why is your femininity so conditional? If a guy said this to you, you'd laugh him out the room. Well, she didn't make me feel good enough to make me be my masculine. You'd be like, come on. And I understand that there's traits of masculinity that go into your job and everything else.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And I said, well, why is it so conditional? Why is your femininity so conditional? If a guy said this to you, you'd laugh him out the room. Well, she didn't make me feel good enough to make me be my masculine. You'd be like, come on. And I understand that there's traits of masculinity that go into your job and everything else.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And I said, well, why is it so conditional? Why is your femininity so conditional? If a guy said this to you, you'd laugh him out the room. Well, she didn't make me feel good enough to make me be my masculine. You'd be like, come on. And I understand that there's traits of masculinity that go into your job and everything else.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

But you have to understand also, too, a lot of times you have that framework when you're meeting new guys. Some guys look right past you because of that, because of how hard you are on the outside and more like that. Some guys, the guys that most of the women actually looking at are going to look past them just because it doesn't it's not not the most attractive thing on a superficial.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

But you have to understand also, too, a lot of times you have that framework when you're meeting new guys. Some guys look right past you because of that, because of how hard you are on the outside and more like that. Some guys, the guys that most of the women actually looking at are going to look past them just because it doesn't it's not not the most attractive thing on a superficial.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

But you have to understand also, too, a lot of times you have that framework when you're meeting new guys. Some guys look right past you because of that, because of how hard you are on the outside and more like that. Some guys, the guys that most of the women actually looking at are going to look past them just because it doesn't it's not not the most attractive thing on a superficial.