Understanding how women think and "concerning yourself" with what women think are 2 different things.
Understanding how women think helps you get better outcomes with them.
I wasted over a decade figuring this out, but women are very simple actually. They only chase their latest emotions/tingles and operate strictly according to that and/or by rules that their female peers and society have laid out for them.
They don't even know why they think the way they do because it's all so emotionally driven each day with them.
It is more productive building yourself up improving yourself as a man physically, financially and morally as opposed to concerning yourself with how women think. Most of them don't actually think. They just follow/copy.
Women know a high SMV guy when they see one though and then they naturally get wet and feel emotions when dealing with one. Women are simply a bonus for these kind of men. But they got what women want and they know it. They usually have a life mission though way more important than any single woman.
The term be yourself is actually good advice. The problem is it means to be your best self and most men are nothing close to that.
Especially when dealing with a very attractive women. They put on the nice guy or overly jerk/pua act. They overly concern themselves what the woman is thinking about and how to please her to get rewarded with sex. They get needy or insecure. They don't lead. They also don't work on themselves as a man neither physically nor financially.
For example, you can be an uber driver for the rest of your life and make a passable living have a 6 pack and know how to game women's emotions to a T. But does that actually make you are a high SMV man? No because you neglected the financial aspect of your life chose and just to just be content chasing your basic carnal desires forever.
Same thing applies in reverse to the wealthy man who ballooned up in weight and is overly needy clingy or toxic and has to resort to pure gold diggers using his money to compensate.
I say all of this because as a guy who has been in every role you can imagine....the final conclusion is just like that other famous saying everyone has heard everywhere....if you build it they will come. If you build yourself into a high value man that is more powerful than anything else that you can possibly concern yourself with.
So that is my advice to any younger guy reading this. Don't concern yourself with the nature of women. They will either find you attractive or they wont. Just keep building yourself up and go after/approach women whenever you have free time. Don't let your ego be phased by their rejections and most importantly never ever let women become your main priority in life.