On a man's perspective on prospects

The following excerpt is taken from a boundless.org article by Steve Watters found
here
(http://www.boundless.org/departments/beyond_buddies/a0000810.html).

The whole article is worth reading, but these 3 paragraphs I found particularly insightful:


Gordon Gano, leader of the 80s band the Violent Femmes, settled down enough as he got older to make a dead-on observation. In an interview with Details magazine, he explained that men by their nature overestimate their potential. Men assume they can have any woman. In their minds, commitment to one woman inevitably requires subtraction — it means limiting themselves to only one slice of a large pie.

I started to see that one slice of pie differently, however, once I decided to stop pretending Candice and I were just buddies and tried to reign in my wandering eye. It was then that I was reminded of the phrase “less is more” — how getting rid of the clutter helps the best stuff stand out.

Back when I was editor of my college yearbook, I got a crash course in photography. My photo editor told me, “don’t try to capture the whole world in one photo. Don’t feel the need to take one of those panoramic Grand Canyon like photos that attempts to squeeze everything in. Instead, focus in on something, a single building, a flower or an expressive face.”