Enjoying approval too much is dangerous...
It can feel good when a woman digs your job, your sense of humor or any part of who you are. But don't enjoy this too much. She is projecting her image of the perfect man. You should discourage the comparison. The perfect man is not your friend. He is a voodoo hobgoblin. You may meet or exceed a few qualifications but with the perfect man there is a never-ending supply of qualifications to be met. In the end she will find a qualification that you fail to keep you from hooking up with her.
The only way to win against the perfect man is to discourage comparison, even when you compare favorably. You want to knock the wind out of the perfect man. How do you do that? By focusing the dialogue on being real.
She tells you she loves your jacket. You say, "Thanks, I bought it at the thrift store."
She coos and runs her hand over your washboard abs. You say, "Enjoy herself because tomorrow I'm going to be eating a whole pizza and ruining the effect."
I once dated a woman who told me she loved that I was so good with people. I had charmed her family, her coworkers and the bums in front of her condo. But she was seeing a very limited, one-side view of who I am. She was setting a particularly intense type of qualification called an expectation. I thanked her for the compliment but then corrected her, “Yes, I am sometimes good with people but sometimes I am very bad. I can act dull and introverted.” No matter how much I enjoyed her view of me I had to reduce it to a realistic level.
It is not intrinsically bad that a woman expresses approval of you. Just manage her expectation into a realistic image of who you are and keep her away from forcing the perfect man upon you.
When she asks what you do for a living or how well you can stir up a martini it is not a moment to show how great you are. It is a moment to disqualify yourself.
