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Athletic, Intelligent, Monotheistic

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

and no kids forreal bro

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
feelingjaded

But Isaiah when do you plan on settling down? 

I’ll settle down right now for the right person.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
Mikhail_Khodorkovsky

no how old are you how much do you make criteria for your girl? 

I had a seizure reading whatever this is.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
Squirrel_CP

Found Patrick Bateman

I think you misspelled Hannibal Lecter or Jeffrey Dahmer. Either way, if trying invites you to a "dinner party", don't go!

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beautiful, preppy, athletic, catholic or jewish, small blank, short, smart, hard working, mentally stable, long-term view on things!

 

Yeah - I had a female analyst tell me shes going to be a billionaire then hang up on me 5 minutes into the call 

 
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I actually really want an intelligent gf

Looking back at all my gfs / flings / girls I’m friends with, none of them have had the same level of wit, intellectual curiosity or (I’d argue) raw intellect of many of my male friends

Now - my guy friends aren’t exactly MIT Physics nerds. Just pretty typical finance bros, lawyers etc who did okay in school and are pretty smart.

Even girls I know / sleep with / date who have jobs in finance, law or healthcare (pharma) are just more ditzy, less interested in basic politics etc

Admittedly I don’t have a MASSIVE sample size, and it’s probably skewed by hanging out with a certain type of crowd, but still…

Interested if anyone can relate

 

This is something I sometimes wonder about. Obviously there are many extremely smart women out there, and many extremely intellectually curious women.

But I think the general thrust is "book-smartness", high conscientiousness smartness. I have found, in general, that guys tend to be more philosophically and meditatively minded than girls. Again there are tons of women who are very philosophical and meditative! Just reflecting on my experiences, on average.

Similar with willingness to test/consider strange/new ideas.

I also consider for myself, do I want someone inclined to think so similarly to me? Probably not. I want my partner to compliment me.

That probably doesn't mean another person who likes thinking how I do. Maybe it does, I don't know.

I do think we shouldn't expect to get all of our emotional and mental needs fulfilled by our partners. There is a healthy spectrum of compatibility, but to demand or expect total fulfillment from a spouse is asking too much.

In his book Awareness, Anthony de Mello claims that when we need anything from a person, we no longer truly love them. Maybe this is true too. Something to think about.

 

you sure you won't get intimidated by someone like that?

in reality, I think the problem is you're essentially asking for opinions. Women tend not to give opinions to people that they don't know very well / in social settings because it can offend people. It's not that we don't have them, whether we want to share them with you or not is a different story

 

Sometimes they don't even have an opinion on an issue because they prefer not to think about it. Even if you're right, I consider their fear of causing offense a flaw in and of itself. The most interesting discussions I've had were with guys who thought deeply about an issue and spoke their minds even if they were offensive. Women consistently kill this atmosphere with their vapid conversation and oversensitivity.

 

Per the matrix, [5,:9, 4:8] are my x,y  criteria. How they chose to fill those criteria spaces is good with me

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Beautiful (slim/fit, prominent cheekbones, big eyes)

Happy

Smart

Nice 

Into me (really into me)

Some emotional thing - I really enjoy being with this person

Those are the things that really matter to me I think. Values need to overlap too, but incompatibility there that would be very obvious upfront. 

Read something recently that said there are 3 types of people: type A really like you for some reason. Type B will hang out with you but are mostly ambivalent. Type C is everyone else, they don’t really care about you. You’ll hang out with a lot of type B, but don’t spend too much energy trying to turn a B into an A. 

 

If they are really rich parents, lots of bonuses can come from that. My friends older brother married a girl with rich parents, they bought them a gorgeous house as a wedding present. 

 

I was gonna find a topless photo of Liz Hurley, but I guess OP wanted real answers. Here they are:

  • Strong Roman Catholic faith (I'd be fine if she converted prior to marriage)
  • Delicate personality and feminine beauty, inside and out
  • Natural redhead (certain girls of this type drive me mad when I see them)
  • Kind and warm heart with good morals and sensibility
  • Good mother to our children
  • Preferably European-born (I plan to expatriate with my family from the U.S. one day -- at some point I will acquire an Italian passport, and possibly an Irish passport when certain restrictions are lifted, through their respective citizenship by descent programs -- and having my wife hold citizenship in different countries will serve this purpose better.)
“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.” -- Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce Limited.
 

Excellent choice, my friend. Switzerland has some of the most beautiful alpine villages in all of Europe. I hope you get to experience it one day.

The Most Beautiful Towns You Have to Visit in the Alps

As for me, I'd like to utilize the "tax nomad trifecta" method created by author and businessman Andrew Henderson, at least when I reach a certain level of net worth (number unknown as of now). In my case as an American citizen, the trifecta method involves the aforementioned expatriation (renunciation of citizenship) to rely on a passport of another nation, either by way of citizenship by descent or investment, then having properties in three different countries and travelling from home to home to spend divided portions of the year in each country where you have a home, usually four months spent in each. The reason this idea is attractive to people like myself is that, by spending less than 183 days of the year in each country, you can avoid any form of income or wealth tax that these countries may impose on their full time residents.

Obviously it would be foolish to judge the best countries for the future, but at the current time I fantasize about having homes in Saint Lucia for the winter and early spring, the Amalfi Coast for the late spring and summer, and Vienna from autumn up to the new year. I might also consider Asia and South America for the future given their burgeoning economic opportunities, but I'm unsure as of right now. Who knows what could happen? As long as my wife and children are taken care of while we're travelling, all is good to me.

“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.” -- Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, Co-Founder of Rolls-Royce Limited.
 
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