Ian Ironwood posted the best list of Alpha stuff ever. Reposting a bit here because its so dang good. Go read the full post, because there’s lots more, this is just a snippet.
Start paying far more attention to what women do than what they say.
Walk into the joint like you own it.
Work out like your life depends on it.
Start telling, stop asking.
Have at least one nice suit that you have had tailored to fit you properly.
Take charge. No one is going to give you permission to lead.
Make breakfast for everyone on a Sunday without being asked or told. Designate who will clean up.
Start thinking of yourself as a valuable asset, not an appendage to a woman.
Get your hair cut by a real professional stylist at least twice a year.
Start valuing your own desires and respecting your own sexuality. Don’t be ashamed of wanting to screw.
Forget “equality”. Focus on “equilibrium”.
Buy a black fedora and rock it hard.
Demonstrate courage, even if you’re scared shitless. No one needs to know just how scared you are.
Be “the most interesting man in the world”.
Cultivate a guilty pleasure or a minor vice. Sure, it isn’t good for you…but it’s your decision.
Walk around like you have a broadsword on your hip.
Be able to listen thoughtfully, even if you think the speaker is full of shit. Opportunity can be a subtle thing, and if you don’t recognize it before it’s gone, it never existed.
Talk to strange women and don’t be afraid of a little light flirting.
Stand up straight. Straighter.
Make your bed, every morning. It’s where you have sex, and you should respect your stage. (I did this for two months before Mrs. Ironwood caught on. Now if I don’t make the bed, she thinks something is wrong.)
Don’t be confident — be overconfident. Irrationally overconfident.
Never diminish the penis. Your junk is so big it’s awe-inspiring. Be willing to fight anyone who says differently.
Call your mother every Sunday.
Be able to change a tire or jump a car on demand.
Solemnly thank veterans for their service.
Become proficient at arms of some sort.
Test drive a sports car.
Tell your wife where you both will be dining, don’t ask her where she wants to eat.
Sing loudly in the shower or car without caring who hears.
Pay more attention to what you wear, even if you’re just working in the yard.
Split some wood. When you get sweaty, take off your shirt.
Be unafraid to look at and appreciate a good-looking woman, and be able to do it without being labeled “creepy”.
Complain about the cooking when it’s bad.
Praise the fellatio when it’s good.
Be able to drop a compliment at an instant’s notice.
Learn how to tie five new knots.
Have a picnic date pre-prepared in the trunk of your car at all times.
Learn how to speak Italian, at least the dirty words.
Do something no one else knows about, and take satisfaction from that.
Get your shoes shined by a guy who does it for a living at least once in a while.
Overtip when the service is truly outstanding. And mention it to the manager.
Pay an older woman a compliment and then flirt with her outrageously.
Pay a young girl a compliment and then Game her until she giggles.
Go play pool in a really sketchy dive.
Know the appropriate occasions and weather in which to wear a tuxedo.
Take guitar lessons.
Know the proper form of address for a sitting monarch, noble, or diplomat.
Be a good loser.
Figure out your favorite manly drink and instantly ask for it at the bar.
Be succinct. If you can’t say it in one sentence, then consider if it needs to be said.
Wait for the idiot to run out of things to say before you get started on why they’re wrong.
Pick something off the menu in the first three minutes and don’t worry about whether or not you should have gotten the fish.
Be observant of human behavior enough to determine whether or not someone is lying. Bluffing is a great skill to have . . . and a lousy skill to lack.
Tell her she has beautiful eyes. It’s never untrue.
Know at least one sport inside and out. Me, I got dibs on Ice Dancing. Yes, Ice Dancing. You fucking wanna fight about it?
Figure out if you’re a beer man or a liquor man and don’t pick up a Zima even if there’s a gun to your head.
Know how to identify poison oak, ivy, and sumac.
Read at least one book written in the last year.
Sit on your front porch and watch the sun set, just because you want to.
Write a letter to your wife. In longhand. On stationary. Mail it to her.
Read a classic in public without shame or fear.
Stay in the game even if you’ve got a shitty hand, and play it like it’s pocket aces.
Show respect to other men for their age, their experience, their reputation, and/or their record. But never mention that to them — you don’t want to look like a brown-noser.
When you switch from cunnilingus to intercourse, do her hard for ten minutes and then go back to cunnilingus until you’re damn well good and ready to continue with screwing. A man’s gotta eat.
Make up private nicknames for her boobs. Tell her, if you want.
Learn how to throw a punch that lands accurately and with sufficient force.
Learn how to take a punch.
Rock a bow-tie. But only if you know how to tie one.
Go out of your way to cross a room to tell a woman how attractive you find her, and compliment her on one thing she clearly worked very hard on. Then recede from view without revealing your name.
When someone says “that’s sexist!” shrug and say “I’m OK with that.”
Practice your free throw.
Call your dad and ask him what he would do, even if you already know the answer.
Sew your own buttons on your shirts. Even prisoners can do it.
Imagine a better way to state the problem, then make the asshole on the team see reason even if you have to beat him to death in the men’s room.
Be able to sing one song or tell one amusing anecdote in public and do it well.
When you shake hands, be the guy with the stronger grip.
Know how to drive a fucking nail without looking like an amateur. Practice, if necessary.
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Learn how to lead. It’s not a natural talent, it’s a learnable skill. If you haven’t learned it, you need to. Being bossy isn’t leadership. Being indecisive isn’t leadership. BE THE CAPTAIN, and people will just naturally start treating you like the captain.
