Why are people who give dating advice in Quora so perfect and so smart?

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I’ve mused on this myself. It’s obvious to me that you’re talking about Franklin Veaux, so I’m just going to dispense with the ambiguity.

I like to think I’m pretty good with the ladies, but Franklin is clearly on a completely different level. I think there’s a few things to pick apart here that can help you to understand the phenomenon of FV better.

I don’t think most people really grasp the impact of years, decades even, of focused refinement. Most people don’t live lives where they are really capable of working on one thing for that long. Franklin’s been refining the craft of love for so unbelievably long that he’s literally forgotten how to relate to guys that are just starting out.

A lot of the advice he gives seems to assume epiphanies and understandings that seem simple to him, but took him decades to really nail down. It’s the mark of a master, but masters should be teaching journeymen and not apprentices, but the world wants to learn from a master and not a journeyman.

I consider myself a eager journeyman, listening carefully and taking deeper lessons from the master and using them to perfect my craft. I think my advice is better suited to novices than Franklin’s is, but it’s FV that gets all the attention.

This doesn’t bother me a bit, I’m just happy that I have access to one of these masters so I can enrich my own life. Writing answers on Quora is something I do for my own purposes, upvote and follower counts are momentarily interesting, but ultimately meaningless to me.

I’m all about the dissection and recombining of concepts to suit individual goals. Dating is just one of the areas I do this in. FV devotes way more of his time and energy towards it, he’s obviously going to be way better at it than any of us.

Just relax and try to learn from the multitudes of real, true-blue experts Quora has on tap.