You should nourish within yourself a high truth preference in all matters, not just regarding the abstract, but also in regards to yourself, for if you wish to be a strong person and live the best life possible, you cannot allow fear to take root, become your master and govern you, for the more you make denying reality your go to method for coping with it, the more you must pretend, hide and deny to simply exist - so now ask yourself: does a prisoner of fear strike you as someone living this life in the way aligned with their highest potential selves? Are your heroes prisoners of fear? Do you permit your cowardice to dress itself as aesthetic sensuality, higher morality or intelligence, and tell yourself that by giving into one of the lowest parts of yourself you are doing the right thing, or do you keep lying to yourself as much as you lie to others? The brutality of reality is that just because you pretend something isn't real, doesn't mean it isn't, and thus the effects of existence continue to exert themselves upon you, for your denial of a thing does not erase the effects of that thing. You see, in needing to hide from reality, you are still subject to it, because rather than free you, the avoidance of it has forced you to organise your life around it - and thus in attempting to escape it, you have merely exchanged the burden of confronting it for the more onerous burden of perpetually hiding from it - either way, you must live with it - and only one way lets you master it. Strategically speaking, you are also incredibly vulnerable. Anyone who discovers what you are hiding from can simply force you into confrontation with what you're avoiding on terms which are not your own, and in doing so, ambush you by imposing it on you to destabilise you. This is another price you pay for lying to yourself: a big gaping tactical vulnerability that allows people to hurt you by doing nothing but speaking the truth to you, and truth like beauty and goodness is part of the trifecta that forms divinity - so what does it say about you when something pure can hurt you? God did not put you on this Earth to be wounded by truth, and so it is far better to make truth your friend and wield it as your weapon than let it become your enemy - because repeatedly choosing against it has made you vulnerable to it.

It is generally wise for women, especially young women, to limit the access that men have to them. If you are an even moderately attractive or intelligent young women, men are going to repeatedly proposition you in some pretty strange and undesirable ways until your threat detection pattern recognition builds up a natural distrust and contempt for men. It also just causes background stress and anxiety to have to be on your guard around men all the time. Much potential nonsense, upset and danger can be averted by minimising your engagement with men as much as possible. Of course, if you are ambitious and want to accomplish anything worth accomplishing as a woman, then men are pretty unavoidable, as they are the vast majority at the highest levels of competence hierarchies, and thus if you are going to properly apply yourself in a way that makes avoiding them unfeasible, you should generally carry yourself in a way that makes you seem uninteresting and otherwise unapproachable. Aim to be efficient and bland, rather than interesting and likeable. Don't be pleasant, sweet or complimenting, because they will your warmth as a sign of receptivity to their lust driven overtures, and start to fantasise you are attracted to them. Do not accentuate your sexuality by dressing to entice them for whatever meagre dopamine hits that may bring you. Aim to go largely unnoticed by all except who you need to be noticed by - do not be conspicuous. If you are too interesting, likeable and play even small attention games, you will end up in many awkward and undesirable situations. Some of these situations be genuinely dangerous, whilst others may just lose you opportunities in your unwillingness to reciprocate warmth or forfeit your dignity. The men with ill designs on you will be many, whilst the ones you can genuinely appreciate, feel safe around and trust will be few. Truth be told, women do not really have any business working alongside men, and so if you are going to regardless, these are the sorts of protective measures you should be taking.