It helps if you have a red pill role model

Ive been "red pill" for a few months now. So far im trying monk mode in order to improve myself. I have a good friend, lets call him ben, who, as far as my understanding goes, is a natural red pill and although it sounds autistic, emulating his actions really helps me improve myself.

This guy is 20 and just starting university. Turns out he is paying for it by himself. He takes all morning classes and from the afternoon onwards he is either working or training. He is an amuteur mma fighter and his goal is to make it as a profesional fighter, but he is studying as a backup because he says all it takes is one injury to fuck up your career.

I joined the mma gym with him and im seeing significant changes physically, for the first time i have some basic muscle! I try to copy how he holds frame but im not sure if how he's doing it is correct. Examples:

Ben and i enter library

Girl behind us: you know a gentleman would have held the door

Ben: better go find one then

Girl: wow, you are so rude

Ben: thank you, god bless and go fuck yourself

Girl flips us of and walks away

Girl from one of his classes approaches him while we are eating lunch

Girl: hi ben, thats a nice tshirt

Ben: what do you want Girl: um my car is making a grinding noise from the front left side.

Ben: yeah it's probably such and such part, gonna cost you $x plus $x in labour. You can take it down to the shop ill start work on it in the evening.

Girl smiles and acts cute: yeah but how much for a friend?

Ben pats me on the shoulder: for a friend i do it for free but i dont fucking know you so its gonna be $x plus $x labour.

When she left he told me since they found out he's a mechanic, girls in his class always try to get him to fix their cars for cheaper.

From what ive read on here it's better to joke around in these situations (amused mastery)?

But hanging around a guy like ben really helps me improve myself. He's always on my ass about going to the gym and tells me not to take any shit, he will stand up for me in situations as well. But does trying to be like him make me a beta? Is bluepill to copy someone to imrpove yourself?