Seek the friend in the person you're interested in, better yet- his personality, comparing compatibility... search for a connection there...
Do not attempt to seek the ideal perfect guy...
I would actually find that boring.
If you don't let yourself get hurt, it is an amusement park I tell you!
Help them out, show how brilliant you are..
Embrace their 'difficulty'.. and all their thoughts, don't think 'right or wrong' here. If they won't accept your intelligence and logic sense, Which is true females, we think logically... (ehem) then that's their fault.
Although it is said...
Girls are crazy
Boys are stupid
-So do share everything you feel or think with this guy. If they can't handle it, then they're not really paying attention to you, because they feel the need to cling to their own beliefs or thoughts.
And won't embrace what you are thinking. (as in feeling)
-Which is the cause of the conflict.
Be openhearted. That is you. If they don't like it-
Tough!
But anyway,
Pirat Jenny is correct in her observation.
Confidence is attractive...
And try to get something that will back it up Â

Be independent.
Find a friend.
And if you can, approach him in a brotherly attitude.... if something developes...
well,
COR- Blimey!
If nothing does, you'll still have a friend. I have friends that I sort of had a 'thing' with, we're VERY different, but we still connect because we are   f r i e n d s.
Friends last a life-time.
They're something to cling to.
Ideals, an 'ideal guy' is boring. Â
They don't exist, perhaps in your mind.
I'm not saying we can't think in Metaphors. Â