Inner game

From Ladder Wiki

Inner Game refers to someone's internal state of emotions. This is very abstract, but includes everything from not being needy, to having confidence, to feelings of superiority to your rivals, and not letting things get to you. Basically if you have inner game, you exude confidence and your outer game comes off more natural.

The beauty of inner game is that once you have it solid, it can be applied to many more things than just dating. You can handle a scolding from your boss at work, interview better for a new job, and prevent yourself from falling into depression after bad situations. All these things generally improve your quality of life, as well as your perceived attractiveness to other people.

Improving inner game comes from all sorts of things, such as philosophy, psychology, meditation, and plenty of seminars exist that can shape your frame of mind to boost your confidence or look at your life situations objectively, so that you remain in control at all times.