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‘Date Me’ Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love
- PaulHoule 4y agoFrom this viewpoint https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Why+Love+Hurts:+A+Sociological+Explanation-p-9780745671079 https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Why+Love+Hurts:+A+Sociological+E... this is going from the frying pan to the fire. Love is something that happens to you as a consequence of being open to other people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization_(love) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallization_(love) and when you are experiencing it you perceive the object of love to be singular and unique. That's the opposite of the idea that you are going to evaluate 100, 1000, or more people against a profile. If you do the latter, at first you're always going to think "I could do better than that", and once you've rejected 1000 people you are really good at rejecting people.
- yamrzou 4y agoVery interesting book link, thanks for sharing.