Ep. 16 - Paul Oyer: Mastering Online Dating!

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Business, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2014

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

How can you make yourself stand out in a crowd? Are you catching the right person's attention? Well, here is the show where you can figure that out. Our guest this week is Paul Oyer, author of Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating. Like our host James, Paul is an interesting guy who has found success by thinking outside the box. Paul shares his discoveries about the online dating world that he found to stem from economics. After more than 20 years of marriage, Paul found himself swimming in the deep sea of the online dating scene... Sure he was out of the game for some time - older than the last time he was single - but he did have an edge on the dating market... his economist's point of view. He talks about his experiences in the online dating world that helped him learn how to stand out. It's all about signaling... Paul explains how he came to realize that the sites available out there are no different from the markets that he had spent a lifetime studying. You'll hear how you can relate these ideas to your everyday life. Enjoy! ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.5	This is the James Altature Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.
0:17.0	This is James Altature back with the James Altature Show and I'm joined by Stanford professor
0:22.2	Paul Oyer, author of everything I ever needed to know about economics I learned from online
0:28.3	dating.
0:29.3	Paul, how are you?
0:30.3	Good, thanks for having me.
0:32.7	Now Paul, are you done with online dating?
0:35.5	Like you mentioned in the book that you kind of found someone to quote unquote settle
0:40.0	with.
0:41.0	Are you back in the dating game or are you done?
0:44.6	I'm done, I'm done.
0:46.8	Well, I'm done for now, I hope as long as you continue to put up with me, I'm done.
0:52.2	That's good.
0:53.2	So, I'm really fascinated by this because I really resonated a lot with aspects of your
0:59.1	book.
1:00.1	Like when I was divorced and probably I was a similar age to what you were, when you
1:05.7	were divorced, I had to go through the whole online dating thing and I really approached
1:10.4	it almost from a game-fairy perspective where I wanted to kind of maximize my chances
1:16.8	of quote unquote winning and I had to figure out without the benefit of an economics PhD,
1:22.7	I had to figure out what would increase my chances and fortunately it worked out.
1:29.1	But I want to talk about your book and all the different ideas and discoveries you made
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