A wonderful way to put it - thanks and good luck.

Regarding starting it from a wrong end - there is no right end, and love is like poetry and poetry has been known to grow out of dirt and flowers that are weeds can have the same amount of beauty as roses grown in botanical gardens, so there is no relationship between how "academically" and "purely" you approach the issue of partner finding and how much luck you will have as a result. In other words, there are no guarantees in either way you approach it and poetry is not guaranteed to grow out of dirt either - it just has been known to, from time to time.