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Masculine Self-Interest

There is nothing wrong with self-interested action. Society improves by transactions of action, and those transactions are fueled by our interest in the self. Men get jobs, go to school, build careers because they want success. They want success because women are attracted to success and more women will want to have sex with them if they are a high performer. This is reality.

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“The Lord has made all for Himself, Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom”.
Proverbs 16:4

Contrary to the popular Church dogma which informally adopts Rousseau’s idea that man is a “noble savage”, everyone is working an angle and there is no such thing as doing something “out of the goodness of your heart”. Even God made man for Himself, and we may never know the reasons why. To deny this is to deny reality.

The Bible clearly states God made man for Himself and therefore took action in His own self-interest.

If God took self-interested action by creating man, then by definition of the nature of God, self-interested action cannot be sinful (Habakkuk 1:13). This is not to say that the creation of man was exclusively in the interest of God, obviously God also takes action in the best interest of man. People have angles they are working, folks, and it’s not a bad thing.

Every bit of small talk you have engaged in has been directed towards advancing your angle. Contrariwise, every time someone engages you in conversation they are advancing their own angle as well. This could be as simple as building enough rapport with you to allow them to ask you for a favor. Or it could go much deeper, and their interest in you is motivated by money or power. Just because people in the Church are Christians does not mean they are above the petty power struggles innate in human beings.

Working angles is not always evil either. We need incentives for everything we do, or we would never do anything. In life we barter with time and money. Less known is the fact that we also barter with our actions. We are pushing agendas. We manipulate. Every action is a manipulation. Even the Latin root for manipulation means to “fill with the hand” – to use the hands to change the orientation of an object. Take some time and observe yourself in action, you will see that everything you do has some personal angle. Maybe it’s not immediately apparent, maybe you have to look a little deeper, but there are benefits to you.

Key: No man takes an action that does not have at least one benefit for himself.

There is nothing wrong with self-interested action (Here is a great article at gynocentrism.com. Society improves by transactions of action, and those transactions are fueled by our interest in the self. Men get jobs, go to school, build careers because they want success. They want success because women are attracted to success and more women will want to have sex with them if they are a high performer. This is reality.

Self-interest only becomes a problem when it inflicts suffering on others. Accept your non-sinful self interest and you will be freer and more successful.

Mantra

I accept that I have an angle. I bend the world to my will.

Application

Observe yourself and observe others today. Look deeply to understand the reason behind why they take the actions they do. Look long enough and you will find their angle. Once you find it, manipulate it to your angle. Most people are unskilled at hiding their personal agenda from others because they lack even the slightest hint of social intelligence. Pay attention to who talks to you and why. What subjects do they bring up?

If they come up and begin small talk and proceed to talk about themselves, you realize that that this individual wants attention. Do they talk about themselves in the past or present tense? Most men you encounter in the Church will talk about themselves in the past tense, especially before they had children. This is because their best days are behind them and they have to look in the mirror to see the “good ole days”. These men have had purpose sucked out of their lives and their ambition is gone. Realize that these men want attention, praise and for you to covertly tell them how “cool” they were and to make them feel special. This is how you begin to manipulate them. Slowly praise them in small ways, because you can guarantee they are not getting any praise from their wives. Ask about their past and direct them to continue talking about themselves. By the end of the conversation you have said very little and now they think you are a “great guy”. Continue employing this strategy of ego stroking and attention giving and you will have a loyal follower.

When women talk to you they will primarily bring up their kids, unless they are single and assessing your capacity for success, which is your sexual market value.

Women talk about kids because they have invested the prime years of their lives into creating new human beings, and they are very self-conscious about this. They know they are judged by their kids. Mothers, and sometimes even fathers, will determine their own self-worth by comparing how well their children are doing compared to other people’s children. This is an area of sensitivity and a good place to concentrate your manipulation. Dote on her kids. Compliment the aspects of the children that normally are not noticed or that you see the mother is working very hard to improve. Do not waste time saying her kids are “cute” or “smart” or “funny”, those are a waste of time because they are too commonly used. Attack the flank with your compliments, find ways to actually compliment the mother instead of the kid, or compliment both mother and kid in the same line. “You are doing so well raising your son, I see his behavior improving because of you every week”. Or, “You are working so hard, it is really paying off with his behavior”, and then try to cite specific examples you notice so your compliment doesn’t look like a mushy schmooze. Use your warlike tactics to dominate the social sphere.

Understand: this is not a wicked manipulation.

This is what all people do, simply not at a conscious level. These are just two examples of basic manipulations. Use the basic blueprints to build more manipulations depending on who you are dealing with. Every individual and situation is different so you will have to construct your strategy accordingly. Simply ask:

What does this person value?
What does this person want?

The answer to these two main questions will give you most of the information you need to maneuver through various social interactions. And concentrating on others outside yourself has the added benefit of reducing your anxiety, because you are no longer “living in your head”.

Make your agenda look like their agenda and your allies will be much more interested in helping you to achieve it. Rid yourself of the moralization of amoral characteristics that weak Church males force on you.

Common Church Quibble: “How dare you encourage young men to manipulate people?”

Simple: because everything is a manipulation. Take, for example the interviewer who has a celebrity guest and is asking him questions. He carefully selects questions designed to elicit particular responses. He knows that if he gets these responses he increases the chances that the video or article of the interview will go viral. If the interview becomes popular it drives more customers to his interview platform (website/video channel etc). More people on his website or reading his articles means more money for him or the company. This is a manipulation. It is not that people consciously think in these ways and purposefully go out of their way to design manipulations, but this is how we structure ourselves. Manipulations are part of everyday life, therefore, you might as well be conscious about them and use them properly.

Achieve as a Man by Making Everything into a Goal

It is hard for men to motivate themselves without the presence of some kind of desirable end-state goal. It is even harder for them to motivate themselves if they do not have some kind of painful punishment to avoid. For this reason you must make everything a goal, no matter how small.

Without a goal, man has nothing to aim for, and he will miss every time if he aims for nothing.

“A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul”.
Proverbs 13:19

It is hard for men to motivate themselves without the presence of some kind of desirable end-state goal.

It is even harder for them to motivate themselves if they do not have some kind of painful punishment to avoid.

For this reason you must make everything a goal, no matter how small. Doing this is guaranteed to make even the tasks you hate slightly more tolerable.

If you are someone who likes statistics, this can be done by counting up all the tasks you have to do and converting to a percentage.

Easy, quick, and now you have visible, measurable progress on your goals. To do this, divide the number of tasks you have completed by the total amount of tasks you have to do. If you have 50 tasks and have completed 13 of them, then you are 26% finished with your tasks. [13/50= 26%]

The best way to make everything a goal is to try to improve at every task you are doing.

Ask yourself:

“How can I make this action more efficient?”
“How can I do this faster?”
“How can I get this done using less resources?”.

Switch your brain from “hating your job” mode, into “problem solve” mode.

Once that problem solving area of your brain is activated, you will spend less time thinking about how much you hate your job, and eventually you may become so efficient that you can switch to another job instead.

Accomplish goals. Weak boys set vague goals and don’t see them through to the end. If you make a goal, keep it, or don’t waste your time making that goal. Nothing satisfies the soul like the progress towards a goal, and then finally the achievement that goal. So make everything a goal and maximize the natural “high”.

Mantra

I will be more efficient. I will look for ways to be faster, more productive, smarter, and a more valuable person.

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Application

Switch from job loathing mode to problem solving mode, as mentioned before.

Constantly look for ways to improve the system, then actually follow through and improve it.

Make sure your goals are as clear as glass. You will never achieve goals that are vague.

Small goals count, but they must be clear.

Even if your goal is to fold letters perfectly, that is fine, you have more clarity with that goal then most weak men have in their entire careers.

Break down every task into all of its component parts.

Start working on the most important piece of each task first and then move on to the next one.

Concentrate on completing each small part as perfectly as you possibly can.

If you have to write a paper and you know it needs a paragraph of introduction, three paragraphs of body, a paragraph of conclusion and five sources of information, then write all these down in a list, or a table and check them off as you go.

	Paragraph of Introduction
	Three paragraphs of body
	One paragraph conclusion
	Five research references.

You can break these tasks down into even smaller tasks.

Break each paragraph into 6-8 sentences. Break the research references down into their separate categories and then break the actual reference down into its component parts of the name of the source, title, author, date and publisher.

Even in this simple example of writing, you can make one large task a collection of small tasks that you can push through and achieve.

Everything in life is achievable if you break it down into small, easily accomplished pieces.

Conduct yourselves like Men.

Concentration

The ability to concentrate is exceedingly rare. So rare that it is incredibly impressive when you find someone who can concentrate consistently. So impressive is the concentrated man that he is invited to give public speeches just to talk about this rare “gift” he has. It is no gift, it is a skill built over time.

Developing the skill of concentration will immediately improve your value to society.

“Concentrate your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”
Colossians 3:2

You walk out of the church building. You didn’t hear a word of the sermon, can’t remember a single thing that was said the whole morning. Why? You couldn’t stop thinking about football. You couldn’t stop thinking about sex. Maybe you were thinking about eating lunch, taking a nap and playing video games later. You have no concentration.

Inability to concentrate is one of the hallmarks of a beta.

Literally, beta brain waves are associated with awakeness and alertness, but they are also rapid and unfocused. Alpha brain waves are present when you are asleep, or practicing meditation or mindfulness. This is the difference: Alpha waves represent a more mindful and focused state of mind while beta waves represent the complete lack of focus that most men have. Beta waves are jittery like a rabbit, just like the majority of weak men. This is also why mindful meditation is incredibly important.

The inability to concentrate is the cumulative effect of years of not even trying to concentrate.

A person with concentration has done the opposite if this. His focus is the cumulative effect of years of practice and dedication to the art of concentration.

You too can build this level of concentration.

Make concentration a priority for the sake of your worship.

Build your focus so that when time calls for it you can work and destroy any task at hand, or so you can worship in spirit and in truth.

Mantra

Complete Concentration

Application

Research the idea of “Access Concentration”. (Try this). The exercises are simple, but they build focus. One exercise is to lightly pinch your index and thumb, and concentrate completely on the sensation between the fingers. The pressure is very light, very difficult to stay focused on, but it builds the concentration skill.

Apply concentration to your work. Whatever the task at hand is, concentrate completely on it until it is finished. Your concentration muscle will be weak, so build it. Don’t be discouraged by your complete lack of concentration at first. Most men fail at building any habit just because they want results too quickly. This is the state of society. Earn it. Work for it. Do not be the pathetic man who wants overnight results, be willing to put the effort in to building concentration, or to building any habit you want.

Another tool for building concentration is to eliminate distraction. Everyone knows this, but so few apply this tactic. It is simple, remove every unnecessary, distracting item from your workspace. Make it so you have nothing to do but work when you are in your work area. Set up some filters on your computer to block social media between various work hours of the day. (Try getcoldturkey.com).

If you eliminate distraction, you can accomplish in 3 hours what used to take you 9.

Use that efficiency to be successful.

Set small time goals for concentration before you attempt long spans of time. If you cannot concentrate for 15 minutes, then trying to concentrate for an hour is going to get you nowhere. You have to build up to those numbers through training. When you do your concentration exercises, make the first goals very small and achievable.

Aim for 1-2 minutes at first. Only when you can complete those 1-2 minutes with perfect focus (no intruding thoughts, pure mind control) should you move up and attempt 3-5 minutes. Slowly level up your training and don’t expect immediate results. Improvement always takes time. Endure the pain of change.

Conduct yourselves like men

The Work of Man

You have to work every day. You must put effort into your craft. You must pound the stone every day. Visible progress towards a desirable end-state goal must be visible every single day, otherwise you have wasted the day.

“For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.”
2 Thessalonians 3:10

“Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.” – 24 “Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God”.
Ecclesiastes 2:18

Man must work. Any male who does not work is not a man. Also, do not deceive yourself, just because you clock in to a 9-5 every day does not mean you work. Just because you punch the clock and sit in a pew every Sunday (and even every Wednesday if you are “Super Righteous”) does not make you a Christian. You aren’t doing the work. You are merely radiating heat from your buttocks into the pew you inhabit, and heaven help the person who takes your assigned seat.

You don’t have to like what you do, you just have to do it. And if it is true that you hate your work, take a good look in the mirror at who is responsible for creating the life you are living. Who you are is the sum total of all the actions you have taken up until this moment. Your job is the result of your career preparation, if you do not like it then fix it.

Most men hate their job because they were lazy in preparing themselves for a good job.

Take some ownership.

If you don’t like your work, then DO something about it. The problem of hating your work can be overcome with additional work directed towards a new career. Hammer the nail. Do the work. Satisfy your soul.

Mantra

Hammer the Nail

Application

Make progress with at least one task of your day. If you are accustomed to being a sloth for the entire day, scrolling through social media when you should be working, then take a good look at your life, because the odds that it is improving are low. If this is you, stop complaining about how the “little guy can’t get ahead”. If the “little guy” would stop stealing from his employer by spending his hours playing on his phone then the little guy would get ahead. Make one task effective. Do one task better than you have ever done anything in your life and see how you feel. Develop marketable skills. Act in a way that allows you to add value to who you are, because at the end of the day all you have is your name. What is your name worth?

Conduct yourselves like men.

Productive Uses of Masculine Aggression

When raw, unbridled emotions are channeled into a controlled action, that action becomes unstoppable. Testosterone builds nations. Testosterone physically manifests itself by aggression. Aggression is anger under focused control.

“Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger”.
Ephesians 4:26

Aggression is an internal energy source that, if used properly, should be invisible to others. You aren’t getting in people’s faces and screaming, instead you are driven in your work and in navigating social circumstances. Train the body with aggression. You resist temptation with aggression aimed at the vile schemes of your demon. You build your relationships with aggression pointed at your own mediocrity. Controlled Aggression is the edge that puts you slightly ahead of the competition.

Aggression is different from anger in that it has something to aim at, while anger can be random and used blindly. A forest fire is uncontrolled and destroys everything in its path until stopped, while a blowtorch is a tool for building items of value. Both forest fires and blow torches use fire, the difference is that the blowtorch is highly controlled and its energy is concentrated into a single point.

Blowtorch. Aggression. — Blow Torch. Controlled. Mostly Good

Forest fire. Aggression — Forest fire. Uncontrolled. Mostly Bad

Anger and aggression are both tools that are highly interrelated, but for focused work you need an emotion that is not overbearing or difficult to control, and aggression is that emotion.

The weak men of the Church have spoken against aggression for years now.

They have all the intestinal fortitude of a castrated rabbit, and they expect you to be the same.

The results of the lack of proficiently channeled aggression is found sitting in the pews of the Church. Lack of aggression makes males fundamentally effeminate and therefore unable to attract high quality mates or contribute to society.

Aggression is not unbound or arbitrarily aimed. It is a focused and controlled energy that can help you earn the life you want.

The pain of physical training can be overridden with aggression.
The monotony of your job can be removed through aggression.
Use this masculine tool, this Gift of God, to your advantage, and bend the world to your will.

Mantra

I am aggressive. I destroy tasks and objectives with ease.

Application

Feeling the boredom in your cubicle? Think about all the time you are wasting there. Focus on what you would rather do, what you want to spend your life doing. Think about that and then get aggressive enough to outperform everyone else, make the money you want and get out of the office for good.

Concentrate your aggression and use it to earn what you want in life. Do not be afraid of aggression, it is a powerful tool that can be used to build anything you want. Ignore everything the men in your Church have to say about aggression. They wouldn’t know aggression if it swung an ax at them.

KEY: Men in the Church fear aggression because aggression is a byproduct of testosterone which is produced in the testicles which are the main items that men in the Church do not have. They are ashamed, afraid and embarrassed about their emasculation so they have to demonize every expression of aggression that they see. They will complain about aggression until they need the help of police or the protection of the military who routinely use aggression to crush evil.

One of the best applications of aggression is to use it to overcome fear or discomfort. Again, the best way to start learning how to use the “hot emotions” is to use them on something physical like your physical training before moving on to something that needs better control, such as applying aggression to intellectual work or building businesses.

By this time you should already be training the physical body on most, but preferably all days of the week. Applied aggression will allow you to push the envelope in your training.

If you are performing squats with a certain weight and aiming for 15 repetitions, the first 8 may be easy before the physical pain begins to come into your mind and body. When the pain arrives, this is where you want to call upon aggression. All those dark thoughts you have as a man and violent tendencies can be directed into your training.

Get Angry, or rather express the anger that already lives inside of you. Force yourself to concentrate on expressing your anger in a controlled way, without allowing your body mechanics to break down.

Do not call on aggression for the first few repetitions, you will need that energy later.

Avoid getting overly “Hyped”, or you will lose control of yourself during the exercise and fail to perform it properly. The first repetitions should be totally in your control and you should have perfect form in completing them so that when you get to the final, aggressive reps, you are already performing perfect reps.

Using aggression can apply to team sports as well, just remember the guiding principle:

Do not call upon aggression until you experience pain and difficulty.

Do not mindlessly apply aggression 100% of the time, that is not productive because you lose the ability to be rational and you will run out of aggression. Applying your aggression to some physical endeavor is extremely therapeutic.

Once you have mastered applying aggression to physical outlets, you can move on to endeavors that are more difficult. It is harder to use aggression for study or business, but it can be done.

For study you have a few options:

Use aggression towards classmates or competitors in the same way that you use aggression towards opposing players on sports teams. You are not trying to express violence towards them, but instead you are cultivating a desire to outperform them.
Become angry with your mediocrity. Become as aware as possible of the depth of your ignorance. The thought of how little you know about anything and everything in the world should begin to stir up some disappointment in who you are and how immature your way of thinking is. Do not let the disappointment last, instead convert it to aggression. Become angry at your ignorance and destroy it by acquiring more knowledge.
Increase endurance in study by properly using aggression. In the same basic way that you apply aggression in your physical training, you must also apply it in study. After a certain amount of time spent learning, you naturally begin to tire. You decide that it is time for a break or that you can learn no more for the day, but the mind is much more resilient than that.

Instead of retiring for the day, take the break you were intending to take instead. During your break you must fuel your mind with aggression and aggressive thoughts. Take a walk and think about being victorious and about gaining knowledge. Remember that only the weak make excuses. Become disgusted with your desire for rest because it is a desire of weakness. Become disgusted with those around you who have fallen victim to the excuses they make in their minds and have failed on themselves as a result. Your cultivated aggression should stir up “hot emotions” and thoughts that override your desire for rest. You catch a second wind and can start working again.

For Business:

Become fueled by a desire to destroy your competitors. Business is war, and you must be willing to engage in warlike behavior in order to win. This does not differ all the way from the large business owner to the small “mail-room worker”. All working individuals need an aggressive drive that pushes them to be more.

Men are constantly competing over resources and women, you can put yourself ahead of the pack if you learn to concentrate aggression into your work. This will allow you to work harder and longer than anyone else. When you are working and you begin to fatigue, you must think of the enemy: he is working, training and preparing. And if you do not work, train and prepare more than he does then he will kill you.

You must think these warlike thoughts. Override your fatigue with aggression.

Obviously there can be several additional examples of applying aggression in study or business, but these should suffice to get your mind working in the right direction. From these basic four tactics, you can build your own tactics and ways to productively use your God-given aggression.

Conduct yourselves like men.

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