Today I want to talk about approach anxiety. Let’s examine a common scenario: Man spots girl, measures hip to waist ratio, hair volume, and other health indicators–becomes attracted. Because of his genetic programming he feels a small surge of adrenaline. His heartbeat increases, his palms sweat, his eyes dart about nervously and his mind stutters…

I was watching a great movie the other day called Journey’s End. It’s about group of WW1 British soldiers on the eve of the first German attack in a year. They know they’re screwed, waiting like rats in muddy, wretched trenches, barely living off horse stew; ducking from snipers, anticipating six hundred artillery cannons raining…