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From the SXSW Interactive Festival

Greetings from Austin.  I decided to attend the SXSW Interactive Fest at the last minute, and I gotta tell ya – it’s fascinating stuff.  I’ll be blogging periodically from the events and sending updates on talks and my whereabouts via Twitter: @dralexbenzer.  Find me if you’re here!

Why The Smartest People Have The Toughest Time Dating – comment

This is a great point, and a challenge particular to all the smart women out there. It’s a little bit like the issue tall women experience: many guys are simply uncomfortable being shorter than their mate. The fact is that the tall women themselves aren’t usually hung up on that — it’s the [...]

Why The Smartest People Have The Toughest Time Dating – comment

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of ‘Eat Pray Love’, gave a TED talk about genius which I really liked (www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html). She said that it’s not about *being* a genius, but rather about each of us *having* a genius, in the original Latin sense of the word. There is greatness within each one of us [...]

Why The Smartest People Have The Toughest Time Dating

RHR –
Please do not ever dumb it down, under any circumstance. There are legions of men who love you because of your eloquence and intellect, and it would be a crime to deprive the world of your gift.
Settling means giving up what truly matters to you and enriches your life for something that doesn’t. [...]

On the Huffington Post: Why smart people have the toughest time dating

The Tao of Dating is getting ready for prime time with our first article up on The Huffington Post.  Check it out there, and if you like it, Digg it, spread the word via Facebook, and post a comment:
I have a mini-confession to make: I wrote the Tao of Dating books specifically for really smart [...]

Dating for Men: How to Get MORE Dates by Getting Pickier

Today I want to talk about how being discriminating in dating can make you more successful in dating.
Before I start, I want to follow up on the story from the last article about my friend Aaron.
Remember how when he asked out this really attractive young woman, she immediately reeled off the names of the 4 [...]

The Tao of Dating Experiment: The Phoenix speaks

This is the first post by The Phoenix as part of The Tao of Dating Experiment.  We’ll be putting up her posts here; you can also follow her postings at taoofdatingexperiment.blogspot.com.
Phoenix
–noun
1. a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, [...]

Official kickoff: The Tao of Dating Experiment for women

Just wanted all the ladies (and curious men) out there know that the Tao of Dating Experiment for Women has officially kicked off.
One of my friends here in Los Angeles volunteered (completely unbidden) to test out the principles in the book and to document, via blog, how it affects her life in the dating realm [...]

Dating for Women: Fulfillment, commitment, exclusivity and societal norms

This is a reader’s response to the article “How to decipher what men really mean: principles for handling casual relationships.” If you haven’t read it yet, no big deal, but it’s available via the newsletter, which you can subscribe to in the left-hand box over there  <–
Dear Dr. Benzer,
Some helpful and thought-provoking points below. [...]

If you don't think you're smart, fine. If you want to be resistible, fine. Otherwise, you need to get this book for yourself you smart woman you. 'Cause it's life-changingly awesome, that's all.

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