Paul Brunson

All right, so the challenge, if I'm really interrogating this, is one is it's talking about highly educated women. So we know that highly educated women are on average dating hypergamosly, right? Which is what you're talking about, up. So someone who's dating someone who has the same or higher level of education, the same or higher level of financial resources. And why is that?

All right, so the challenge, if I'm really interrogating this, is one is it's talking about highly educated women. So we know that highly educated women are on average dating hypergamosly, right? Which is what you're talking about, up. So someone who's dating someone who has the same or higher level of education, the same or higher level of financial resources. And why is that?

Because that's the script that society handed to women to say, the only way you can survive is by finding a man who can deliver this to you. Right? And I think we have to accept where it came from. It was this terrible society of, you know what, you're not going to be safe unless you find a man who can provide.

Because that's the script that society handed to women to say, the only way you can survive is by finding a man who can deliver this to you. Right? And I think we have to accept where it came from. It was this terrible society of, you know what, you're not going to be safe unless you find a man who can provide.

But you fast forward to today, a large percentage of highly educated women are dating this way. But that's not all women. The other part is, yes, are women beginning to out-earn men and out-educate men? Absolutely. In certain cities. Not in everywhere of the world. Men, on average, still earn more income. So if you look at the narrative that's handed to us, you could say, well, you know what?

But you fast forward to today, a large percentage of highly educated women are dating this way. But that's not all women. The other part is, yes, are women beginning to out-earn men and out-educate men? Absolutely. In certain cities. Not in everywhere of the world. Men, on average, still earn more income. So if you look at the narrative that's handed to us, you could say, well, you know what?

Men, on average, still earn more. But my point is this. My point is that I think we all need to reevaluate what it is that we want. No longer do we need to have a partner for most of us, or should I say, this is me speaking out of privilege, for many of us in the West. No longer do we need to have a partner for pragmatic reasons.

Men, on average, still earn more. But my point is this. My point is that I think we all need to reevaluate what it is that we want. No longer do we need to have a partner for most of us, or should I say, this is me speaking out of privilege, for many of us in the West. No longer do we need to have a partner for pragmatic reasons.

If you think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and you just divided it into three categories, you would say the bottom kind of rung is all of our psychological and physical needs, food, shelter, right? Then that kind of middle rung is belonging and connection. And the top rung is self-evolved.

If you think about Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and you just divided it into three categories, you would say the bottom kind of rung is all of our psychological and physical needs, food, shelter, right? Then that kind of middle rung is belonging and connection. And the top rung is self-evolved.

Self, you know, we want to be, you know, well, self-evolved, living our best self, contributing the most that we ever could to this world. Marriage and partnership and selecting a partner was largely based on that lower rung all the way through to the 1960s.

Self, you know, we want to be, you know, well, self-evolved, living our best self, contributing the most that we ever could to this world. Marriage and partnership and selecting a partner was largely based on that lower rung all the way through to the 1960s.

That's like yesterday, if you think about how long we've lived. But isn't that evolution as well? Because you see the same thing in the animal kingdom with like the orangutan, which has like 98% the same DNA as us. They still select for survival factors.

That's like yesterday, if you think about how long we've lived. But isn't that evolution as well? Because you see the same thing in the animal kingdom with like the orangutan, which has like 98% the same DNA as us. They still select for survival factors.

So I think what's interesting when you look at different mammals... and the evolutionary biology is that there's lots of similarities, but then there's also lots of traits that are different. So it's one of those where we have to appreciate that as homo sapiens, We are unique and we live in a structure that we have largely created ourselves. We're debating about the institution of marriage.

So I think what's interesting when you look at different mammals... and the evolutionary biology is that there's lots of similarities, but then there's also lots of traits that are different. So it's one of those where we have to appreciate that as homo sapiens, We are unique and we live in a structure that we have largely created ourselves. We're debating about the institution of marriage.

I mean, marriage didn't exist for the vast majority of our existence.

I mean, marriage didn't exist for the vast majority of our existence.

But this golden rule thing, you told me about this.

But this golden rule thing, you told me about this.