The same principle ("reject the middle, explicitly look at the tail of the distribution") as The Verjus Manifesto:
(talking about how to make good-for-you metaphorical vegetables palatable)
Vegetables can be cooked poorly. But they can also be roasted to perfection with a drizzle of olive oil and hint of sea salt.
This is certainly one approach to the preparation of otherwise unpalatable but virtuous fact-nutrition. However, here’s an alternative:
- Take the same original plate of metaphorical vegetables
- Chuck all the popular and/or fashionable ones away, like parsnips and kale.
- Replace them with more bitter chard, brussels sprouts and celeriac, and other stuff that people chuck out of their vegetable boxes
- Add some kohl-rabi and other weird rubbish. Sprinkle it with habanero peppers
- Don’t roast it at all. Lightly dress it with unsweetened verjus and Fernet-Branca.
I think we can agree two things about this hypothetical vegetable offering:
Almost nobody would look twice at it on a menu
But of the half dozen people who did order it, you would want all of them to be your mates.
:-)
Speaking from personal experience, finding the right relationship can be HARD. I recently came across a rational take on finding relationship partners, much of which really resonated with my experiences:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html
http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner-part-2.html
(I'm still working my way through the Sequences, and lw has more than eight thousand articles with "relationship" in them. I'm not promising the linked articles include unique information)