It’s a trap a lot of men fall into. They think that their attractiveness to a woman and their sexual successes have an impact of how masculine of dominant they are as a man. So, they start chasing the sex, they start chasing the women, they start to see women as a key to the door of true manhood, and thus instead of being their own center of mental origin as all masculine and dominant energy should be, opinions of random women who should mean nothing to them become their mental point of origin. Thus, through chasing women a man becomes a weaker man, rather than a stronger one, as he has foolishly hoped.
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Archetypes of Manhood
There is something which is unseen, yet prevails as true throughout many human cultures and civilizations throughout the ages. Something which makes sense when you stop and think about it, yet you never do, but still you understand it on a deeper, subconscious level even if you never thought about it. Something which is engrained in our primordial past and which exists outside of ourselves, independent of any one of us, but still applies to all of us and exists only as an emanation of our own human nature as men. Archetypes are an abstraction of forms of existence. They are abstractions which can be perceived when you take away all of the trivialities and banalities of what it means to be a man in human culture, when you ignore the individual differences and specialties of each man you are left with the abstractions of meanings which encapsulate what in essence means to be a man.
The Main Goals of 2021 : Develop Accountability to Yourself [MASCULINE MINDSET]
There are but two persons who will never fail you. God and yourself. Whatever may come you will always stay true to your nature. Be it when you do bad or good deeds, you can only act in the way your nature dictates. The goal is to develop your self-control, discipline and virtue to the point where you can really on yourself that you will always act in the way which is most beneficial to yourself.
Digital Detox for Men – Endorsing Digital Detox December
The black mirror which we are faced with every single day of our lives is eating at our souls. Of course, I’m talking about the black LCD screens which seem to linger in every part of our modern world, in every corner, on every table, even in our own pockets. These little devices are a true testament for human ingenuity and intellectual ability. We as a race have created a machine that can ‘think’ and solves complex problems in a similar algorithmic manner in which the logical part of the human mind solves them. In our evolution as humans we have surpassed every other known species in both our intelligence and predatory abilities.
Trial, Failure and Success | Stoic Thoughts on Persistence
A condition of success is always trial and error. Before any big win we have in life we must first attempt to win before capturing it. We may fail multiple times, get demotivated, dragged through the mmud, humiliated and beaten in our spirits, yet if we keep on pushing forward, the win we are fighting for draws ever nearer and the more difficult the trail towards it was, the sweeter it’s taste becomes when we finally achieve it.
Know Your Limitations, Don’t Be Icarus
The modern world tells us such lies when we are children, that we can ‘become anything we want to be’ and that ‘it’s more important to participate than to win’. This sort of education leads men to developing a view of the world where we are entitled to anything just for showing up for it, we get the victory for just showing up for the battle, we get the girl for just asking her out. This type of thinking fails to realize that an integral part of a man’s success is his failure. Failure is the way through which success is obtained, you try, you fail, you learn from it, your try again, repeat a few times until you succeed. Yet, the narrative today is either that of trying something for the first time, failing and then never trying again, or trying something for the first time, succeeding, developing hubris and reaching further than your abilities allow it, and then failing. There are countless example of men getting started with weight training, going to the gym for the first time, failing to lift a certain weight and giving up, or lifting a weight they thought they were too weak to lift, and so they keep ego-lifting until they get hurt.
Making Them Chase You | Tips on Confident Social Interaction
In order to make the person you’re interacting with in a social situation, be it a person at work or a girl you’re flirting with chase you, you need to start moving away, it sounds logical, doesn’t it? Having another person come into your frame means you guiding them into your frame, but the key difference is that you don’t want to guide them by pushing them into it, you want to guide them by moving away step by step, making them come after you step by step, until you’ve got them into the frame of thinking in which you want them to be, and then you propose the result that you want to achieve from that interaction. This, paradoxically means that you need to stop caring about the result that you want to achieve, because in any moment of this ‘dance’ so to say of you giving a little then moving away, they might choose not to chase you, which might get you panicked and get you to fuck up your game.
Stoic Principles to Deal with Criticism
Today we are living in a world where we see constantly how people judge and criticize others all the time, no one is spared when it comes to criticism. Everybody sees the world and other people through their own lenses and while this is totally natural and human, this might be the reason why criticism is born in the first place. The reason for that is that we rarely see more than what our mind allows us. In this article, we will find stoic practices to deal with criticism in our daily lives, Besides this, we will get to know wonderful ways adopted by stoics to respond to unfair criticism with peace, patience, tolerance and dignity.
A stoic person knows that they will be the recipient of criticism by others therefore they need to be strong and patient and they don’t whine and bitch about it. Thus, they do not get attracted and distracted by such threats of criticism and keep themselves ready for it. Similarly, they usually do not take those situations too personally. As Epictetus stated: Feel grateful when someone unfairly criticizes you because they will not be pointing at your real flaws. Another point extremely worth mentioning as well is that criticism is a signal of progress (or at least change). You`ll have this experience firsthand once you decide to step up and pursue a dream. There always will be people laughing at you, doubting you won`t be able to accomplish whatever you have set you mind on. So, if you decided to do anything above average be ready for criticism, if it didn`t hit you already, IT IS COMING SOON.
Grow a Spine | Standing for Your Values and Defending Your Opinions [MASCULINE MINDSET]
is a man, but a set of principles incarnate. Men are beings of virtue, the more we defend our own values and stick to our own perspective of the world, the better that perspective becomes. Defending your own values when they come under attack from your enemies is the primary reason why men evolved to be as strong and capable as we are. Defending the things we stand from, the things that guide us through our lives and which promise us the eternal light of virtue and truth, these things are different for every man, but to all men they must be holy, wholeheartedly defended with mental vigor and power. In the old times, defending your values meant getting into physical confrontations with those men who challenge them. In today's world things are different, yet still all the same. You may not be expected to fight for your values (though you might well be in times of war and crisis), but you are expected to defend your position when your values come under attack, both verbally and through your actions.
Discipline | The Source of Virtue and Freedom
There are essentially, three types of discipline a man must develop in order to achieve freedom. Discipline is the first, the cardinal virtue, it is the virtue from which all other virtues bloom, and the achievement of the state of iron discipline is the success from which stem all other successes.The lack of discipline is the sickness from which idle minds conjure up sin and vanity. It is essential for a man to be disciplined in his life, but attaining such discipline in a world in which no outside motivation for it exists is a difficult and daunting task.
The Wolf with a Keyboard 