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The 7 pillars of dating success (you only need 2):

1. Looks
2. Wealth
3. Status
4. Aura
5. Tenacity
6. Scarcity
7. Niche power

Out of the 7, niche power is the most underrated and i’ll get to that later, but the most important thing to note is: you only need to rank highly in 2 of the 7 pillars to outperform. 1 pillar is not usually enough on its own

People talk about looks, but while looks alone will get a guy pretty far, looks without aura often eventually runs out of steam. Any woman will tell you about the guy where she ā€œwas attracted until he started speakingā€

Likewise wealth usually doesn’t stand alone, and by the time a guy has sufficient money to a level where it actually impresses women, he also has status, therefore he has 2 pillars

Indian guys often outperform via very high tenacity, and money once they get established, outworking, out-DMing and out-approaching other guys

The typical "passport bro" dating strategy combines scarcity (he's one of the few expats in her city) and wealth, but can also rank him higher in niche power if she's particularly into his country/culture so it's worth considering how his country is perceived in a particular place

You need to excel in 2 pillars, so even though you ideally want to maximize as many of the 7 as you can, if you want to improve your situation it’s worth considering which of the 2 you can best amplify and start from there

Now all of the categories are pretty self-explanatory. By scarcity I mean how rare your type and qualities are in particular location or context, but let’s take a closer look at #7, because niche power is a highly underrated category imo

What is niche power exactly?

It’s the skinny emo twink with the goth baddy gf you see at rock concerts, he has anxiety disorder but he met her through mutuals at a house party when they were high. All their friends are into the same music and sub-culture

It’s the nerdy neckbeard guy who met his cosplay gamer gf on a Discord gaming server, they bonded for 7 months playing games and talking about random shit before they even met

It’s the guy I knew in Australia who banged a steady slew of Swedish and German backpackers because he had a job driving a 4 wheel drive for a camping tour company on Fraser Island

Or the guy I knew who was a mechanic in El Salvador, he married a hot Australian girl from a wealthy family that he met at a Latin dance night because she was super into Latin dancing

Niche power is in some ways, the antithesis of a dating app strategy. Dating apps are completely generalist and directly pits you against every guy in the city

Niche power is any way a guy can access a dating pool that cuts out, or gives him preferential access over other men

Niche power combines well with both scarcity and status, because the guy only has to have micro-status and scarcity within his particular arena. She thinks it’s cool he is the best League of Legends player, or best dancer at the dance night, or he’s the only guy capable of pulling the guitar out at the house party at 2am etc

There are many possible ways to think about niche power, and you have to be creative within the context that applies to you personally, but in general it’s quite underrated in dating discussions
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ā€œYou can just like save up 26k bro, buy an apartment building, I’m awesome broā€ …Schwarzenegger is truly Boomer hall of famer
Arnold Schwarzenegger says he saved every dollar until he had about $26,000, then put all of it into a $235,000 apartment building. Two or three years later he sold it for roughly double, and by 30 he was a millionaire, before his Hollywood career took off.

In the video below, uilder with almost no income pulled that off.

He started working at 13 because his parents couldn’t afford his gym clothes or a bike. At a glass factory he swept up broken glass and talked them into paying him like an adult.

In America, he saved every dollar from seminars, posing exhibitions and a small mail-order business.

Before buying a home to live in, he wanted property that paid him. His first purchase was a 6-unit building with an owner’s apartment twice the size of the others, and he moved into it.

When he sold, his $26,000 had turned into a profit of $150,000 to almost $200,000 in about 3 years.

He says there was not a single dollar left after the deal. He kept doing it anyway, until he owned more than 100 apartments plus offices in Santa Monica.

Would you put every dollar you have into one building, or is that a risk only someone with no backup plan would take?
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Maybe it’s fortunate that Hollywood is dying and making slop. I believe if we still had the oldschool pro-male Hollywood, they would’ve made a few passport bro type films in the vein of Euro Trip/the Hangover, based in LatAm and Asia, & it’d be much worse than it currently is
@nomadgeist Well said. Get there before Hollywood.
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The absolute state of the American dating market
Love Is Blind's Stew and Jax reunite after she ghosted him in the pods šŸ‘€
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Agree with you, but I think they are edged out by Venezuelans, however guys have had less exposure to Venezuelans. There’s a reason Venezuela has much lower divorce rates, much higher birth rates, it has been more shielded from some of the toxic influences of modernity
@ThyLordMatthewo@Caballero1453e, Colombians are amazing wives and the best mothers. I NEVER thought I'd settle down. Never. I was the eternal bachelor. Dating tons of models. I dated several models (like real models in BA). One is famous now.

Just never thought I'd settle down but met her and knew she would be a great mother. It doesn't get better than Colombian mothers.

But you have to be super picky. Educated from good families. A few of my best friends are married to Colombians and same thing. The ones that married trash ended up divorced. But the ones that married from good families, educated, well traveled are all doing very well.

Colombians are the most beautiful girls on the planet.
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I think the popularity of the Narcos series contributed heavily to MedellĆ­n and Colombia’s tourist boom and gentrification, it both promoted MedellĆ­n’s lore and showcased the beauty of the region to the masses. Social media can burn down a place, but it’s got nothing on Hollywood
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Colombians hate to acknowledge, but Pablo did probably more than anyone to put the country on the map in popular culture
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What you were promised:
Universal abundance, personal robot slaves, immortality

What you got: It’s over
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: "I don't even know a dramatic enough word to use… models can find bugs that are outside of the normal threat model of what we think a hacker can do… hardware-level, insane stuff… I no longer think we're gonna be able to just patch all the bugs."

It's over.
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This is a guy I knew and his gf, he was 5ā€3 and she over 6ā€1, how did he get her? They met on an online forum (not sure which but it was some kind of sub-culture forum), niche power
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This guy moved to Sydney, and couldn’t believe how well he was doing, he concluded that Sydney is an amazing dating scene

Now you can see from his approach, he comes across as awkward, fumbling and no game. How is he having so much so success? Sure he’s ok looking (but so are ation)

It’s mostly a result of pillar #6 scarcity, and #7 niche power. He runs around and easily collects numbers because black culture is very popular in Australia, and there are so few blacks there
The 7 pillars of dating success (you only need 2):

1. Looks
2. Wealth
3. Status
4. Aura
5. Tenacity
6. Scarcity
7. Niche power

Out of the 7, niche power is the most underrated and i’ll get to that later, but the most important thing to note is: you only need to rank highly in 2 of the 7 pillars to outperform. 1 pillar is not usually enough on its own

People talk about looks, but while looks alone will get a guy pretty far, looks without aura often eventually runs out of steam. Any woman will tell you about the guy where she ā€œwas attracted until he started speakingā€

Likewise wealth usually doesn’t stand alone, and by the time a guy has sufficient money to a level where it actually impresses women, he also has status, therefore he has 2 pillars

Indian guys often outperform via very high tenacity, and money once they get established, outworking, out-DMing and out-approaching other guys

The typical "passport bro" dating strategy combines scarcity (he's one of the few expats in her city) and wealth, but can also rank him higher in niche power if she's particularly into his country/culture so it's worth considering how his country is perceived in a particular place

You need to excel in 2 pillars, so even though you ideally want to maximize as many of the 7 as you can, if you want to improve your situation it’s worth considering which of the 2 you can best amplify and start from there

Now all of the categories are pretty self-explanatory. By scarcity I mean how rare your type and qualities are in particular location or context, but let’s take a closer look at #7, because niche power is a highly underrated category imo

What is niche power exactly?

It’s the skinny emo twink with the goth baddy gf you see at rock concerts, he has anxiety disorder but he met her through mutuals at a house party when they were high. All their friends are into the same music and sub-culture

It’s the nerdy neckbeard guy who met his cosplay gamer gf on a Discord gaming server, they bonded for 7 months playing games and talking about random shit before they even met

It’s the guy I knew in Australia who banged a steady slew of Swedish and German backpackers because he had a job driving a 4 wheel drive for a camping tour company on Fraser Island

Or the guy I knew who was a mechanic in El Salvador, he married a hot Australian girl from a wealthy family that he met at a Latin dance night because she was super into Latin dancing

Niche power is in some ways, the antithesis of a dating app strategy. Dating apps are completely generalist and directly pits you against every guy in the city

Niche power is any way a guy can access a dating pool that cuts out, or gives him preferential access over other men

Niche power combines well with both scarcity and status, because the guy only has to have micro-status and scarcity within his particular arena. She thinks it’s cool he is the best League of Legends player, or best dancer at the dance night, or he’s the only guy capable of pulling the guitar out at the house party at 2am etc

There are many possible ways to think about niche power, and you have to be creative within the context that applies to you personally, but in general it’s quite underrated in dating discussions
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nomadgeist retweeted
The 7 pillars of dating success (you only need 2):

1. Looks
2. Wealth
3. Status
4. Aura
5. Tenacity
6. Scarcity
7. Niche power

Out of the 7, niche power is the most underrated and i’ll get to that later, but the most important thing to note is: you only need to rank highly in 2 of the 7 pillars to outperform. 1 pillar is not usually enough on its own

People talk about looks, but while looks alone will get a guy pretty far, looks without aura often eventually runs out of steam. Any woman will tell you about the guy where she ā€œwas attracted until he started speakingā€

Likewise wealth usually doesn’t stand alone, and by the time a guy has sufficient money to a level where it actually impresses women, he also has status, therefore he has 2 pillars

Indian guys often outperform via very high tenacity, and money once they get established, outworking, out-DMing and out-approaching other guys

The typical "passport bro" dating strategy combines scarcity (he's one of the few expats in her city) and wealth, but can also rank him higher in niche power if she's particularly into his country/culture so it's worth considering how his country is perceived in a particular place

You need to excel in 2 pillars, so even though you ideally want to maximize as many of the 7 as you can, if you want to improve your situation it’s worth considering which of the 2 you can best amplify and start from there

Now all of the categories are pretty self-explanatory. By scarcity I mean how rare your type and qualities are in particular location or context, but let’s take a closer look at #7, because niche power is a highly underrated category imo

What is niche power exactly?

It’s the skinny emo twink with the goth baddy gf you see at rock concerts, he has anxiety disorder but he met her through mutuals at a house party when they were high. All their friends are into the same music and sub-culture

It’s the nerdy neckbeard guy who met his cosplay gamer gf on a Discord gaming server, they bonded for 7 months playing games and talking about random shit before they even met

It’s the guy I knew in Australia who banged a steady slew of Swedish and German backpackers because he had a job driving a 4 wheel drive for a camping tour company on Fraser Island

Or the guy I knew who was a mechanic in El Salvador, he married a hot Australian girl from a wealthy family that he met at a Latin dance night because she was super into Latin dancing

Niche power is in some ways, the antithesis of a dating app strategy. Dating apps are completely generalist and directly pits you against every guy in the city

Niche power is any way a guy can access a dating pool that cuts out, or gives him preferential access over other men

Niche power combines well with both scarcity and status, because the guy only has to have micro-status and scarcity within his particular arena. She thinks it’s cool he is the best League of Legends player, or best dancer at the dance night, or he’s the only guy capable of pulling the guitar out at the house party at 2am etc

There are many possible ways to think about niche power, and you have to be creative within the context that applies to you personally, but in general it’s quite underrated in dating discussions
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Replying to @nomadgeist
This is a guy I knew and his gf, he was 5ā€3 and she over 6ā€1, how did he get her? They met on an online forum (not sure which but it was some kind of sub-culture forum), niche power
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Western baddie tattoo phrases:
Sanskrit, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic…

Brazil/Argentina baddie tattoo phrases: English

Lesson in there
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Big difference I notice from dating millenial women vs Gen Z is that Gen Z women really seem to struggle with comprehending subtle flirting, often they only get it when you’re very direct and obvious with your intent

I speculate it could be because they are so used to guys coming on very strong in their DM’s and comments, that this has become their baseline for what constitutes male interest
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One of the differences between male to male communication in Brazil vs Anglo countries is that in Brazil, there is more of an allowance for aggressive words and posturing without necessarily inviting a fight, so this debate format suits them

In Anglo societies especially, displays of aggression is taken as a major disrespect and invite to fight and can escalate quickly unless someone backs down pretty fast to diffuse it

It can be a bit of a culture shock in Brazil when you find yourself in an intense exchange of words with some random, and your inclination especially coming from an Anglo country to think it’s more of serious challenge than it maybe is x.com/HugoGloss/stat…
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