multifoliaterose comments on Urges vs. Goals: The analogy to anticipation and belief - Less Wrong

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 25 January 2012 10:33:55PM 1 point [-]

(People rarely exhibit long-term planning to acquire social status any more than we/they exhibit long-term planning to acquire health. E.g., most unhappily single folk do not systematically practice their social skills unless this is encouraged by their local social environment.)

Is lack of social skills typically the factor that prevents unhappily single folk from finding relationships? Surely this is true in some cases but I would be surprised to learn that it's generic.