Read Trajectory, Not Position
The core mistake Hamza describes is evaluating a woman by where she is right now rather than where she is going. You meet a girl who seems to be on your level. You are both at the same point on the mountain. What you cannot see in that moment is that your trajectory is sharply upward and hers is flat or slightly declining. She drinks on weekends. She is not building anything. She looks like a six heading toward a seven because you are standing next to her, but she is actually a six heading toward a four. This is why Hamza says the girls who seem like eights or nines to you right now are probably objective sixes. It is not that your taste is bad. It is that you have only ever stood at this elevation. You have no reference point for what the higher levels feel like, so your rating system is miscalibrated to your current position. The girl who looks exceptional from where you are standing would look ordinary from three levels up. The fix is not to be cruel about the women you are meeting. It is to stop using present position as your primary filter and start asking what direction someone is moving in. A woman who is at a five but genuinely accelerating is a different proposition than a woman who is at a six and slowly declining. For most of the women Hamza describes, the trajectory question answers itself quickly once you pay attention to habits, not aesthetics.