Here Is the Mathematical Formula for Finding True Love

Three personality traits that = passion, apparently.

 

Hannah Fry, a math professor at University College London who wrote the book The Mathematics of Love, has identified the three Ps you need to succeed for the magic formula.
If you're PROUD + PROACTIVE + PROVOKABLE, then you could fall in LOVE.
Here's what that means.

Proud

Be proud of yourself and "play up to whatever it is that makes you different," Fry advises. And she's not just making this stuff up. It's backed up by research carried out by OkCupid dating site founder and mathematician, Christian Rudder.
On the site, participants rate one another in terms of how attractive they are, on a scale of one to 10. Rudder took a random sample selection of 5,000 women from the site, and measured their average "attractiveness" rating with how many messages they were sent per month.

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He found that the women who received a wide range of ratings did significantly better than the women who were, by everyone's agreement, very stereotypically beautiful and got a lot of high ratings.
So don't judge yourself so harshly against others, remain proud of what makes you unique, and use this as a "selling feature" for yourself. Do all that and you've got the first step in the formula sorted out.

Proactive

Basically, decide what you want and then go get it. 
Fry asks us to consider the traditional "boy hits on girl" scenario in the context of a party. If a boy starts chatting up a girl and gets rejected, it's likely that he will move on to the next girl until he finds someone to "partner up" with. Following this algorithm, everyone will end up with a partner eventually.
But if you think about it, those who are proactive in doing the asking are much more likely to end up with a better partner than those who sit back and wait to be approached. 
By coming out of your comfort zone, you could be opening up opportunities to meet all sorts of people, rather than just waiting for one to have the courage to approach you. 

Provokable

Although this doesn't sound like an attractive trait, Fry disagrees and suggests speaking up when something is bothering you. Apparently, mathematicians are able to determine the chances of your relationship being a success, based on the way you argue.
An experiment by psychologist John Gottman recorded hundreds of conversations had by married couples, and came up with a way to assess what happened as they played out. Researchers recorded the couples' blood pressure, skin conductivity, and heart rates, and measured it alongside the content of the conversations. 
They were then able to predict whether or not a couple was likely to get divorced with great certainty. The couples who were evidently open and honest in their emotions with each other had a greater chance of survival than those who kept quiet.
So there you go, the love equation that (apparently) works. And you didn't even need a calculator!