Anon06/23/25, 16:55No.24490201
>picrel
Pillow Book is actually really interesting and modern because it's about a leisure class woman in an intellectual occupation (poet/calligrapher), gave me some useful insights into the girlboss mindset. It could have been written by a 30-something aspiring writer from NYC. It's very aesthetic too. There are two translations into English, get the one by Meredith McKinney
>I need books
I liked the book "Mate" by Tucker and Miller. Basically women want status (chad) and you want to display your status to them in credible ways. The most important things you can do to attract women are
1. lift
2. go to places with lots of attractive women and talk to them
3. fix your confidence problems using your favorite kind of therapy (CBT/Adlerian à la David Burns, meditation, internal family systems, Gendlin's focusing). The most important thing about this is that you *do* stuff instead of just reading.
Spilling your spaghetti is OK. You will never be a real incel. Girls love you. The important thing when you spill your spaghetti is to *not care*. You evolved for an environment of 150 monkeys. If you tried to fuck the hot monkey, the alpha monkey would bash your skull in with a rock. This is why you are afraid. You now live in a city with at least 100x as much pussy, and the danger involved in hitting on a girl is negligible.