The “first date and it’s over” thing happened to me a lot, for exactly the reasons given in Modern Romance, usually extreme nervousness over having to be “the perfect date”. Surprisingly often, when I asked for a second date my date would say, “You’re too nice.” I didn’t understand that at the time; I do now - I think.

Well written, well researched, and spot on. This applies to people my age (55) as well as younger people. Thank you!

Me too!

So I’m a divergent selector. How’s that work? Quite well, actually; it makes me weed out the crap from the huge numbers of ideas I generate.

Not necessarily. Sometimes you have a natural talent. Nevertheless, I completely agree failure should not always be a stopping point but a learning point.

Sometimes you fail because you’re just going to fail. Sometimes you’re going to fail because you need practice. Wisdom is knowing which is which. Learn from that.…