We're at McCay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

So a big part of our lives are relationships, particularly relationships in the context

of dating and mating can really have a big influence on happiness and well-being.

But despite being such a big part of our lives, no one ever really sits you down and says,

here's what you need to do to have a successful dating life or here's what you need to do to

have a successful marriage once you've found the one.

We're sort of expected to figure this stuff out on our own.

Well, my guest today on the podcast argues that's actually, we're setting a lot of people

up for unhappiness and failure by not giving them a bit of advice on how they can have

a successful dating and relationship life.

His name is Jeffrey Miller.

He's an evolutionary psychologist.

He's written several books on the topic of how evolutionary psychology influences our mating

choices as well as consumer choices.

And he teamed up with Tucker Maxx.

You guys probably know Tucker from books like I hope they serve beer and hell and all of

that frat-tire stuff.

But they teamed up to write a book called Mate and it's all about the science of mating

and dating.

And it's packed with research back tips on what guys can do to make themselves more attractive

to women.

The traits they can develop, authentic traits that will make them attractive and the traits

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