The criteria for success are to learn more about yourself, learn about other people, keep your head, and be dating someone exclusively at some point in the near

The criteria for success are to learn more about yourself, learn about other people, keep your head, and be dating someone exclusively at some point in the near future (he says 6 months or less if you use this method) with an eye towards potentially marrying that person. The similarity to sales is just in increasing leads. He says that's often the primary hurdle people need to get over -- to take the pressure off and keep expectations low when taking someone out on a first date, and to have lots of "first dates" with lots of people, keeping a very open mind about the types you'll consider dating once. Dating for me always had heavy emotional overtones and expectations, to the point where I felt like I had to have a "good sense" that someone was a potential good match before asking them on a date. His framework was helpful to me because it was enabled me to start using my brain and thinking rationally (instead of emotionally) about the problem, and to lower the pressure and my own expectations about dating. That being said, it would have been super helpful for me if there had been a book geared towards folks on the Aspergers/Autism spectrum explaining the unique pitfalls relationships can encounter when one person is on the spectrum... though I didn't know I was on the spectrum at the time.