I get emails all the time from people who tell me how rotten their life is because they cannot meet people. My response is always, “That’s easy to fix! Try driving in L.A. traffic. You can’t do a thing about that.”

There is no way to manipulate your way into a relationship. It’s funny. Almost anytime someone comes to see me for advice, they will say something like “I want to get advice from the master” and expect to get some super-complicated, almost magical technique for how to do things. What I inevitably give them is something