The world never stops turning, and as men we should never stop improving, evolving and trying to make better sense of the world. We should also spend quite a lot of our time becoming more well-rounded and interesting as human beings while we’re at it.

All of which leads seamlessly to this very simple guide. Follow it to the letter, and you will be intriguing the pants off people (figuratively and probably literally) in no time. You’ll see.

Order Food You Might Not Usually Go For

Were it not for more interesting and intrepid culinary adventurers, we’d all be on a staple diet of beans on toast and cheese sandwiches. In this day and age, there is nothing sexy about a guy eating from the kid’s menu (even if he’s doing it ironically).

So be fearless, take your palate to the seaside, let the addition of chilli play bongos on your taste buds. Try cheese that isn’t cheddar – even the stuff that smells like an old trainer – and conceal your urge to spew when someone tells you what a sweetbread actually is.

Once desensitised, you will embark on a foodie odyssey that finds you brazenly wandering the planet foraging for new sensations like a naked Gordon Ramsay.

Get Comfortable In Your Own Company

Nothing hamstrings a man’s ability to seem hot and alluring quite like the whiff of neediness that comes from always having to be in someone else’s company. And, truth be told, despite the welcomed narrowing of the gender divide, it will never be OK for a man to whisper “I just don’t want to be alone tonight” (so don’t try it).

Instead, you need to condition yourself to enjoy being by yourself, to find the hero within who can contentedly sit at the top of a mountain at peace with your own thoughts. Rather than, for example, pacing around your home in a blind panic because you think no one cares about you, wondering whose life you should gatecrash.