Mr Sam Rayburn

The NBA regular season goes down as yet another demonstration of the power of sports on broadcast TV. Total time spent viewing the NBA this season was up +22% across national partners. On broadcast networks it was up +128%.

If you want births after 40 to make up for falling birth rates in the 20s, you will need a 2000% increase in births after 40, not a 50% increase.

Believe me when I tell you, men have no problems with women approaching them, the core problem is that too many women approach the same top 10% of men and the other 90% are invisible. Those top 10% are flooded with choice. Not great mathematics for the majority of men or women when female hypergamy becomes overinflated and hookup culture dominates. Try assortive mating and long term pair bonding, much better for both sexes and yeah I think women approaching men would actually work better than the reverse on average when combined with assortive mating and pair bonding. Why? Because it encourages men to focus on the things that make them attractive to women in the first place rather than wasting time on courting women and earning female approval. Let men focus on other pursuits and then let women evaluate that, select and then approach men on their level in a long term pair bond. Need to use more of that cerebral cortex in mate selection and less of that hypothalmus, limbic system and short term reward circuitry. Makes women think more too before getting into a relationship rather than going of short term instinct when approached by a man, which increases relationship success. Bumble had the right idea, they just did not go far enough. Need to impose filter constraints to encourage assortive mating and restrict female hypergamy. Geographic, age, income, education, height restrictions. Look up the female delusion calculator if you question this. Need to also require more genuine courtship signalling from women and less attention seeking behaviour on apps. Please do not think female agency in dating is not want men want, men badly dersire it and need it! You are on the right path looking at women approaching men in a positive light.

You don't need to have it all figured out early on; Lee Kuan Yew was stuck in almost 4 years of Japanese Occupation as a prisoner, almost being killed when he was meant to be studying in the UK. Otto Von Bismarck was an alcoholic, a crammer barely finishing law school. In his mid-20s, he had to take care of his family's estates after his father's sudden death. Benjamin Franklin did not attend Harvard, unlike his wealthy peers, largely because his family couldn’t afford it, and instead left home early to work in the printing and newspaper trade far away in London. Carnegie worked as a telegraph operator, making a decent wage, and spent his free time reading in his small local library. Some, like Alexander the Great, were given a clear role early in life, with strong guidance from figures like Aristotle and supported by influential family backgrounds. But these are quite rare, and not the norm in an age with so many opportunities with divergent paths all across you. It will take a bit of time to figure it all out, but that's normal, and know that you've got the greats as company.