Great thread.
It is tragic that smart, hard working men are as attractive as a painful dead fish — when they are intellectual. Undeserved.
The problem is that intellectual men when faced with stress (social situation/romance) solve it like they usually do when faced with stress in their (especially work) lives: to be intellectual. It is understandable, but the girl will be put off, perplexed.
Everyone wants to get past the intellectualism in the end, so one can connect and have s3x. No arguing about that.
One way to solve this is is to find a girl that is intellectual in the same way (as stated in this thread). Then one can together babble loose about all that bs, and both can trip on their defence mechanism (intellectualism) until they both calm down. I’ve had women like that, a doctor and academic.
Another way is to solve the problem on one’s own, such that one can deal with girls that aren’t intellectual. It’s essentially about changing a behaviour, and CBT is probably suited for that. Get a book, be intellectual, solve it… Don’t have a quick run down right now.
One way is to not activate the defence mechanism at all; to be confident to the degree one doesn’t have a need to impress, or become stressed.
The question is what triggers the intellectualism. For me, it happens with girls I can’t banter with, that doesn’t smile etc, so I revert to strategies that I think will work instead. For that I think the solution is to know when to fold and NEXT. Hard in confined social sphere. Girls one feel is out of one's league is another topic.
Another explanation could be that one (maybe quickly) looses a frame battle, picks up their intellectualism and nervousness. Sounds like the description that
@Jake_Gyllenhaal69 do above of high intellect people (emphatic/help/care).
But stopping intellectualism is a task. Doing it several hours every day, and then suddenly press a switch or change mode.