Paul Eastwick

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Your wife probably thinks that you're a 10.

Otherwise, your relationship would not have gotten to this point.

This is the beautiful part of the perception of compatibility, that really it's all in what people think.

And because I'm a psychologist, the subjective is beautiful to me.

Yeah, your wife thinks you're more desirable than other people think.

That's why you work so well together.

I'm sorry, Rift guys.

When you come along, maybe you are an eight on average, but she doesn't think that.

She thinks you're a six because people also do this thing called derogation of alternatives, which means because she's happily partnered with you, she looks at these other guys and thinks they're worse.

No.

And I'm fascinated to hear about this, too, because I could only imagine what it might have been like to come in with some less aggressive and, yeah, less pickup artisty strategies, but really trying to help people.

So, yeah, it actually kind of bums me out that people were skeptical.

And that is what I've experienced, too, talking about this book in various places.

I guess some people are into the hey, boomer angle, and those interviews are straightforward.

But in some cases, it does feel like there is this tidal wave of stuff that, yeah, I'm having to push back against.

It's a little bit daunting, but it's kind of exciting too.

I'm a scientist and the most boring kind of science is where you're making a claim, but you're not really pushing back against anything.

Nobody's ever argued the opposite.

So there is something exciting about pushing back against something that is out there and that is big and that it's a little bit right, but it's also like mostly wrong and gross.