when you are psyched up and excited for your life, when you are excited for what you've planned to accomplish through the day, it's amazing you will wake up before the alarm clock even startles you to awake. Your successes fuel your ambition, your successes give you extra energy, your successes pave the way for more successes, it's the snowball effect. With one success you are excited to meet another and another and another, and pretty soon the diciplines that were so difficult in the beginning, the diciplines that got you going are now part of your philosophy..

Cold approach works and feels good but the actual value given by a random woman, even when you select for the attractive or peacocking ones, tends to be very very low. I think many intellectuals overestimate the value of randomly picked women because those they have come across in male-dominated feels tend to be exceptional - very intelligence, skilled, curious etc. If you're like me, you'll find yourself yearning for the physical beauty of the wider community when you're around rationalist women, and the interest in rationality from the rationalist community when you're around beautiful women. The secret, I've been learning, is simply to see the good in everyone, and select for people who are good at managing interpersonal relationships above all other traits, in one's social circle.