Stop Playing Checkers While She’s Playing Chess: A Man’s Guide to Thinking Like a Man in Love and Life

The masculine energy wants to kill the dragon and save the day. But the feminine energy wants to know you feel the dragon’s heat.

And you definitely forgot #3. If she knows exactly what you will say, wear, and do for the next ten years, the mystery dies. You become a roommate.

You forgot #2. When was the last time you looked her in the eyes for ten seconds without a phone in your hand? When did you last listen to her work drama without trying to "fix it"?

Let me tell you something that took me way too long to learn:

Here is the hard truth about what it really means to think like a man in the modern world. In Think Like a Man , Steve Harvey famously breaks down the "90-Day Rule." A lot of guys roll their eyes at this. "Three months? No way."

Then I stopped blaming them and started listening. I read the manual. I watched the movie. I finally understood the difference between reacting like a boy and acting like a man.