You are the CEO of your life. To start, realize that you own various forms of 'capital'. Then, learn the nature of this capital. The goal of a CEO is to maximize the total quantity of capital for their organization, converting between physical property, financial instruments, cash, a strong workforce, and other factors of production. Life is slightly different than a business on the surface, since a business might try to convert all factors of production to profit in the form of cash, but the reality is that businesses typically don't plan for their business to end, so they are constantly reinvesting in themselves and therefore try to maximize all forms of capital that they manage. This is you. Manage all of your capital in pursuit of the greatest profit possible.

The Traditional Pillars

If any of these pillars are weak, the entire building can collapse. You should seek balance, although it might be in your best interest to have some sort of imbalance. Weighting each category is up to you.

Any type of resource can be converted into another. The purpose of this sub is primarily to convert something into a specific form of bodily capital (sex, maybe love too), but in order to not develop heuristics that only work in some scenarios, you have to understand the broader theory. Everything that people say women want and everything that people say men are judged by falls under the following categories.

  • Bodily capital: This why everyone on here puts 'lift' at the top of their lists of suggestions. Lifting is an example of an activity that can significantly alter your bodily capital. I want to generalize this concept, so we don't get dogmatic. Sleep, healthy eating, and hygiene matters. Being in a good mood matters. Sex matters. The ability to fight and sustain physical challenges matters.

  • Monetary capital: Maybe it's good to spend money now, to invest in tools that will help you later. Maybe it's better to save your money, so you don't have recurring fees for the next 10-20 years (e.g. student loans if you pick a weak major). It's important to realize that money is extremely fluid, and if you have enough of it, you can convert it into almost anything else on the list. Being that everyone plays the same game and demand is high for the same basic things, you may also decide that using money to pay for other forms of capital is too expensive and not a good use of your capital.

  • Social capital: This is having friends, who can help you when you're sad or looking to do something fun (giving you bodily capital), connect you with business/job opportunities (giving you monetary capital), and do things for you that you simply couldn't have done nearly as quickly (saving your time). You wouldn't tell your friend that you are engaging in an exchange of value (this would be straighttalk about a topic that isn't polite to discuss), but it's okay here because we're being pretty abstract. Also, part of social capital is having practice/experience/skills with people. So, are you a leader? Women want leaders, people who can help them navigate emotional challenges in their lives. If you want to have kids, you need to be a leader for them too.

  • Temporal capital: Almost anything can be bought with time, and it's the one thing that all people are given by default. That means the cost to exchange the resource 'time' for any other sort of resource is the highest in many cases, except in situations where no one wants to spend their 'time' for something. Then, the 'time to other resource' transaction is more in your favor.

I don't want to generalize too much and go beyond the scope of this sub, but I will say: women should be seen as one thing, not the only thing. That's why you're looking at a four pillar building with women as a subset of one or two pillars (bodily and social), rather than the top of a pedestal.

Why are we here?

The Red Pill view of the world is that things have costs. This is the adult view. If you accept these truths, you are ahead of the ball game in decision making. If you want women, you must meet these costs. If you were given capital (inherited money, grew up in a great family, have god-given athletic prowess), then so be it, but you must pay in those to get women. Women aren't free.

The Blue Pill view of the world is that things are free or distributed randomly and impossible to exchange (e.g. BP: "You can't buy friends with money!" RP: "If you have money, you can afford leisure time and engage in activities where you might meet people"). This is the child-like view that makes you gravitate to others who might give you things, without you giving them much in return. It promotes laziness and self-hatred, particularly if you see yourself as simply unlucky.

TL;DR

Lift, make money, be social, and value your time. But also, consider the deeper meanings at play.