Self pride is the best pride. The only pride?

Better to have pride in yourself, your own self innovations, rather than purchasing external innovation!

It isn’t about men needing his “own space”, but rather … avenues for domination?

Never blame or even mention your wife, your kid, etc. Also never even blame yourself. You just do as you do!

For example, non-manlike to say — I didn’t do or purchase X because she said she didn’t like it!

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How insanely much do you care?

The real man as unable to be obedient.

The passion of the innovator:

The insane desire to create it!

Not for the sake of becoming rich, but instead … the sublime self curiosity that the innovator has, and the desire to see it manifested in the world?

Even to sell and market the product is an offshoot of the innovator who thinks:

Wow, this thing I created is so great and sublime, I *MUST* share it with others and the world!

It takes too long to walk around!

Better instead … smaller, but more luxury!

We don’t care for the price, we care for the thing.

Consumers have no taste. The creators and innovators must be the taste makers!

The genesis of philosophy and virtue.

What does it feel like the day after I atlas lifted 940 pounds on my shoulders successfully?

Interestingly enough, I don’t really feel it at all in my back, not even my legs or hips. Instead, I felt it a lot in my triceps? Not even my shoulders or neck?

For example feminism seems like to be a marketed and consumerist notion to get women to stay single, to stay consumers longer.

Also for men, “manliness” and notions of masculinity… also marketed notions? Note all these muscle cars and sports cars marketed to men to become more tough, rugged. Same goes for these trucks and SUV’s.

1. Your personal health (you, yourself, you as the individual) is the most supreme and critical. Never go a single day without working out. The night before, I skipped going to the gym, but as a consequence, it took me around 2 hours to fall asleep. Ironically enough then, going to the gym may seem like a ‘waste of time’, but if it helps you sleep, and *stay* asleep, it is critical.
2. Never do anything to make other people ‘happy’. Typically it will lead to your own personal dishappiness. Also, other people tend to be implacable anyways (yourself included). So seeking ‘happiness’ for all parties seems like a foolish path.

Man is befuddled why woman doesn’t act and think like him. Women, the same.

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Better for our thought, thinking, ambitions?

1. Only luxury fabrics and clothes.
2. Luxury disposable products?

Theory, because masculine men cannot be controlled. Men who are unpredictable and independent and free spirited aren’t good for consumerism, capitalism, modern day society.

There is a difference.

Got this random ingrown toenails fixer, replete with these stainless steel sprinted extenders … only the Chinese would be smart and clever enough to actually come up with this, produce it and sell it to the American market! So smart.

The more meat you consume, the more powerful and productive you shall become?

Just eat it:

The social scientist.

Learn from the master stoics:

• Seneca
• Marcus Aurelius
• Epictetus
• Publilius Syrus
• Heraclitus

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How to improve your social skills:

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Why?

Something I believe deeply in is the future for social skills. Why? First and foremost, the prime consideration for humans is social. Without having other embodied humans around us, nothing is worth it.

This is where modern day capitalism and consumerism is weird; rather than putting the emphasis on other human beings, it puts the emphasis instead on objects, nonhuman things. For example, we become obsessed with watches, cars, clothes, homes, etc. But the ultimate goal is instead, direction maximize our real life face time with other humans.

Even zoom is bad. Why? To communicate with another human being that is not facilitated in the flesh is jarring.

Even something that is interesting in regards to other human beings men and women, when I see them on the screen, versus in the flesh. Why in the flesh you could see subtle things like height. Height matters.

For example, you could see pretty girls on Instagram or social media, or showing off their body parts. Yet, if you see them in real life, and they are very short and small, like 5 feet tall, or 4 foot 11, it is different. Even Aristotle once said, ”Is there such thing as a beautiful small woman?” Or for men,

Short men are never a threat.

For example, I am very fortunate that I am quite tall, around 5 foot 11 if I exaggerate. Realistically I’m more 5 foot 10, maybe 5 foot 10 1/2. But I always like to round up. I think in Korea I’m 180 centimeters, the golden standard.

At the gym, I don’t really care if anyone is more buff or muscular than me, as long as I am taller than them, I still feel dominant.

Why does height matter?

Something that I have realized is there is a link and a connection between height and social class. Richer and more affluent people, higher class people tend to be taller. More poor working class people, or recent migrants are immigrants tend to be short.

Why is this? My theory:

In the past, there was an evolutionary benefit to height.

For example, not always but often times taller men tend to be bigger and stronger. Therefore, a woman would find a tall and strong man as more powerful and strong and beneficial.

Even for men, a trend that I see is that shorter men, or even medium sized men like the idea of marrying and having children with really really tall supermodels.

Therefore my theory:

A lot of short men tend to have a lot of money, and have the ability to attract really really tall super model women, and therefore their children and future generations of children keep getting taller and taller.

How to stand taller

You cannot change your height, but, you can change your posture. To stand upright, tall, shoulders back, chest up, chin up.

For example, even a lot of taller guys who are very very tall I see hunched over, with very poor posture. This looks very unattractive.

I also have another theory is that naturally, when your testosterone and muscle mass is high, and your body fat percentage low, your body will actually naturally assume a more dominant, upright posture.

Even another funny thing that I say is in regards to ego; when I see my testosterone insanely high, when I’m about to hit myself up before a one rep max, let’s see my 940 pound atlas lift, and my half legging compression short short tights are rolled all the way up, exposing my bare demigod thighs, and also my compression shirt is rolled up showing off my midsection and my nipples, and I am in the zone, other men around me… I see their egos deflating. When your testosterone and ego is high, and other men witness this, maybe it is a zero sum thing in which their ego also deflates.

Actually, maybe this is false. Instead, maybe only insecure men find me as a threat to their own masculinity. My new friend at the gym Taylor, insanely buff dude, always congratulate me after a successfully heavy lift. Theory:

If you are a self-confident man, and you witness great feats of strength from other men, you will always congratulate them, rather than feeling small.

The virtuous art of showing off:

I believe there to be a different gender dynamic in regards to money; it seems that for women, money is a means for security and safety. For men, money as a means to increase our power and dominance.

Or another words, manage your own money.

How to peacock:

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Difficult to ‘deep fake’ a voice, a vlog, and a video:

FUTURE PROOF THOUGHTS:

In a world of CHAT GPT, I think 99% of the time, it will pass the Turing test (you don’t know if the text was written by a human or a robot). So instead, the solution:

Produce more videos and vlogs.

Certainly you can ‘deep fake’ a video, but still, the real *soul* and passion of a video cannot be faked!

Or think, could an AI create a MATRIX, a GODFATHER, or even a John Wick?

I don’t think it is necessarily sex, but instead … as fellow play mates, and fascination?

Perfect women as rare birds?

Man would not desire to inhabit this world without (beautiful) women.

How can we future-proof it?

9 PLATES, A 35, AND A 2.5 POUNDER (ATTACHED VIA ERIC KIM BELT AND CARABINER), AND 55 POUND TEXAS POWER SQUAT BAR:

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ATLAS LIFT IS THE WAY:

The next time someone asks me why or what the purpose of my atlas lift is, my response is simple:

To strengthen my legs.

Currently speaking, my legs are insane. There is nobody in the gym with as strong legs as mine! Or out there in general? Not on steroids?

Theory:

Do I have the strongest legs in the world, for a man who is not on steroids? 100% natty?

The two are often at odds.

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This is the way:

Everything happened not for a ‘reason’, but with enough fore-sight or hind-sight, everything in the long run … everything happened as it *should* have happened, for the most supreme best for you!

Even things which in the moment seemed like disappointments or ‘bad’ outcomes, ultimately helped you in the long run!