I really love this: "I invested in becoming someone people want to date." Very wise words.
Although this sentence (about the kind of people people want to date) from La Bruyere's Characters flashed cynically into my mind a moment later. :-)
A man who is vain, indiscreet, a great talker and a mischievous wag, who speaks arrogantly of himself and contemptuously of others, who is boisterous, haughty, forward, without morality, honesty, or commonsense, and who draws for facts on his imagination, wants nothing else, to be adored by many women, but handsome features and a good shape.
Also it reminded me of George Clooney writing somewhere that he started getting acting work after he totally changed his mindset in auditions–from asking, pleading give me something I want, to seeing himself as offering his talents, contributing something unique to the production–he had something they wanted, or should.
Although this sentence (about the kind of people people want to date) from La Bruyere's Characters flashed cynically into my mind a moment later. :-)
A man who is vain, indiscreet, a great talker and a mischievous wag, who speaks arrogantly of himself and contemptuously of others, who is boisterous, haughty, forward, without morality, honesty, or commonsense, and who draws for facts on his imagination, wants nothing else, to be adored by many women, but handsome features and a good shape.
Also it reminded me of George Clooney writing somewhere that he started getting acting work after he totally changed his mindset in auditions–from asking, pleading give me something I want, to seeing himself as offering his talents, contributing something unique to the production–he had something they wanted, or should.