He mentions that he likes getting attention from them, well, most people like attention and this does not seem to hinder them - quite the contrary.
The fact that he likes the attention doesn't mean that he has an established pattern of reacting to it.
However, for most purposes, the social models of the average man vs. the average woman are not going to diverge in a significant way.
At the moment we have a debate about street harassment. We have an attractive women who filmed herself for 10 hours and who argues that she shouldn't be approached in the way she is. There also an attractive man who went around for 3 hours.
Both get around 10 verbal interactions per hour and the woman has a problem with that while the man doesn't.
Men generally don't have a fear to get raped by strangers.
A while ago I went home at 4AM. A female neighbor opened the front door and we got in together. While I don't know most of my neighbors that live in the building it's still custom to greet everybody so I wished her a good night. When we rode the small elevator together she was feeling very uncomfortable.
I didn't do anything that would make an average man uncomfortable. If I would have had a good model of her than I would have taken the stairs instead of making her uncomfortable.
Shy guys generally don't ask strangers for help when navigating a part of the town where they don't know the way. Shy women very often do ask for help.
Physical contact is only really relevant when seeking intimacy.
Depends how you define intimacy. Most friendships do have at least some physical interaction. At our local LW meetups physical contact in forms of hugs is the norm. Of course in many corporate environments all physical contact is looked down upon.
Of course in many corporate environments all physical contact is looked down upon.
BTW, that part varies a lot by culture.
Sometimes our minds suddenly "click" and we see a topic in a new light. Or sometimes we think we understand an idea, think it's stupid and ignore attempts to explain it ("yeah, I already know that"), until we suddenly realize that our understanding was wrong.
This kind of insight is supposedly hard to transmit, but it might be worth a try!
So, what kind of important and valuable insights do you wish you had earlier? Could you try to explain briefly what led to the insight, in a way that might help others get it?