So I've come out of my hole for a day or two. I'll go back soon. In the spirit of MRP I am obligated to pass on what I've learned so far. Then offline I go to make more shit happen.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius wrote this. I believe this to be the essence of Red Pill and MRP specifically. The argument can be made until the sun goes down about women, sexual strategy, and how they should be treated and how we should expect to be treated. Yep. Sure it's all that. But at the end of the day none of the shit matters.

What matters is how you view yourself, your world, and how you interact with it. Are you in charge of your life? Are your needs being met? Are you a quality man? You came here because of your lack of sex. Your desire to be respected, recognize now that you have hit your low point. Because these most basic needs and desires are no longer being met you have hit rock bottom. For some that rock bottom may be more horrorific then others, but it is rock bottom. What's more interesting is that I am not the first to say this, nor will I be the last. In fact you have probably read this before. Though I have another angle to it.

Ever hear the parable of the elephant? 15 blind men are feeling an elephant. One touches it and describes the tail he feels. Another the ear, and yet still another the foot. This goes on until each one describes what he is touching. each one believing that they know what the elephant is. The Red Pill is very much like this. Not one person can truly understand the entirely of the concept. It takes several to put it together. To examine it and understand it. From each we learn what this elephant looks like.

You will spend time here on MRP examining everyone's stories, gleaning any insight you can and in fact you will be creating a playbook. A step by step manual if you will. All fine. Again recognize that this won't work. Yet it is the first step. I did it. Others did it.

You will hear do this do that, talk less talk more...blah blah blah. All good advice. Yes do that. Do all of that. Most important of all....do what you want. Find your way. Following the advice is good, better is to just do it, take your lumps as men should and learn from it. Waste no more time on that matter, put it into practice. Fail and just sit back and say

well fuck. That didn't work.

Smirk at yourself, laugh at her, because it's all bullshit any ways.

Today was just another day.

When I was an Army Cadet the cadre (active duty officer and NCOs) would tell us in order to be a leader you have to study and observe good leaders. You then have to model yourself after the ones you think best exemplify your style, your personality. I'll be damned but that advice is accurate here. Pick the flared guys that best represent your view. The way you think you want your life to be...then go do that. YET be very aware that as you are faking this new found persona you will in fact begin to craft your own.

Each of our circumstances are different but the advice, the situations, the behavior....very much the same. You only have to read a few newbies post to see that. MRP can prepare you. Show you the tools, the stories, put you through the crucible that it is, but at the end each man has to find themselves. Find their way. How is that done? I have no idea. That's your job.

You just do it. Waste no more time. Study no longer. Be afraid no more and get into the world. More work and less talk. I'd respect a man who dove in and started kicking over the hornets nest then a man who sits reading and puts nothing into practice. At least the first is learning. Doing. Making his way.

Some days nothing will go on. This isn't a war. There isn't a constant battle. Sometimes starting at the wall is all that's needed. After while your family will see you doing nothing maybe inside you are all turmoil, thinking, wondering, working shit out. To them? You are going to be collected, calm, and they will think you are planning the next big thing. Yet only because you have demonstrated this in the past. I cannot tell you how many times that has happened to me.

Waste no more time. Sure, MRP is all about having a plan. Yes do that. Yet I will also let you in on a secret. Those that are flexible, that seem to be spontaneous and it all works out are those that plan previously. Once you have mastered planning and the ability to organize then the magic starts. You can turn in an instant and create something from nothing. Be a master of time. This is why you must waste no more time in making this happen. Learn the value of each minute and what it means. You will be amazed how long it actually takes to do something once you do it.

I spent too much time here reading, commenting on the things I had already understood, and yet there was so much more. you cannot learn them until you act. Until you do. Then one day. You no longer have to. It just becomes the way it is.

Men are not troubled by things themselves but by their thoughts about them.

Epictetus was so correct here. Men stew, they brood. Stop. That's the path of weakness.

Get out of your head, out of your thoughts. Put aside the negative emotions and embrace the good ones. Don't hide your emotions. That is not healthy and others will see that you are battling something. Embrace everything there is about the world and yourself, but move on quickly. Let the fear, the anger, the sadness happen but not happen to you.

Put into action. A bad plan, violently executed, is still the right one.

Stop wasting time.

Be a man.