What Is A High Value Man? High Value Men Defined

“Full disclosure, I didn’t create the term. High value man has been with us for a long time I have just put my own unique spin on it and popularized and it has gone viral. But here’s the thing, so many people are talking about “high value this” or “high value that”. Many times they are talking about me saying as though Kevin said this or Kevin said that. Many people are getting it %100 wrong. So in an attempt to make sense of all this I Want to give you guys the 6 basic principles that I define as being high value. Again, you don’t have to agree with what I ‘m saying. But this is what I’m talking about when I’m saying “High Value Man” s your mile may vary, your opinion is you opinion, but this is what I’m talking about so lets get it started.

First of all, let’s go over some basic definitions.

High

/hī/

Great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity.

val·ue

/ˈvalyo͞o/

The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of

man

/man/

An adult human male

So when you put all that together what do you have?

“An adult human male that’s greater than normal in usefulness to, what? The group. Basic economic principle states that the value of something is what the market is willing to pay for it. The value is determined by what? The Market. And when we’re talking about individuals, the market is other people, men, or women. SO a high value man is completely determined by the market. Case and point. You can have a vehicle a home anything in your position, you can hold it dear it can be extremely important to you. But when you put it on the market, the market decides. There’s an upper limit and a lower limit It doesn’t really matter if you think the low is too low, or the high is not high enough. That’s what the market Is willing to pay for it. That is its overall value. That has been with us forever. When we start talking that when dealing with people it really throws people because it seems so cold and calculated. Like it or not, that’s the way the world is. Let’s get into this whole High Value Man thing…

  1. In order to be a High Value Man, it starts with money. Again, like it or not, I didn’t put the “six figure” thing out there. It’s been with us since the mid-80’s and like it or not that’s where this whole thing starts. You cant be High Value and Homeless so you have to make a certain amount of money and the line is roughly at 10,000 a month adjusted for Atlanta dollars. If you live in San Francisco, LA, New York City or where the cost of living is higher than 100% you need to adjust it. So 10k a month gets the starting point off for High Value. DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER. I’m just giving you what the world gave me.
  2. That money needs to be made over a length of time. I.e., Performance. That’s roughly about 5 years. At about the 3-year mark you’re starting to scratch the surface. Why does it need to be 5 years? Because it’s a matter of consistency and stability. Look at the NFL, The NBA. Anybody can have a great season. But having a great season doesn’t automatically mean you’re going to the hall of fame. They want to see consistent numbers over a period of time. You know how this works just like I do. In business you can’t be a one-hit-wonder. Consistency and performance over a length of time that’s why the 5-year mark is so important. At 5 years people can pretty much count on you to say “This person understands and knows how to get it done”.
  3. Group acceptance. Like it or not guys High Value Man is like a fraternity, it’s like a club or a secret society. And High Value Men know other High Value Men. They welcome him into the group. They know what it takes to be there, they know what it takes to get in there. With High Value Men group acceptance is supremely important. Secret societies, fraternities, and organizations have always been with us. You know how this works and how they generally interact. Guys will make their own secret societies and club, but it doesn’t matter as much as somebody saying “that group is important” Guys this is about separation. High Value Men tend to huddle around other High Value Men for reasons I’m going to go into a little bit later. Group Acceptance is another critical component of being a High Value Man. Why is group acceptance so important? Because the next part…
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A Network. You have to have a network of other High Value Men and others. This is another stumbling block for a lot of people. They may have the money, length of time, and look like they fit the group, but if they don’t have any of the High Value contacts, network, or group of others that person is going to be looked at with a side-eye. Think of it like this. If you’re sitting at the table with 10 High Value Men and each of these 10 men has 50 contacts that’s 500 contacts and you sit at the table and you have twice as much money as any man on their, but you have ZERO contacts. What can you effectively get done other than throw money at it? These other man cane make phone calls, exert influence, move things to get things done. You can only do what? Offer money and potentially feed of their network of contacts. One thing High Value Men know and understand that time is what is important. Building a network that actually works for you is extremely important. In some areas its called a “book of business”. A book of business can make you successful all over. Your network is your net worth You’ve heard it before so you cannot underestimate how important having a network of High Value Men and other people is to your status as a High Value Man.

  1. Visibility.

Guys, your income and your position has to be LinkedIn Level. Think of it like this. This person says “I’m the CEO of a furtune-500 company” or “I’m head of thoracic surgery and John’s Hopkins.” And “I am VP of merges and acquisitions at Bank of America”. And then someone says “High I’m an entrepreneur…”

Three of those four people at a glance, we can estimate who they are, what they do, and their relative importance in the overall socio-economic structure. The 4th person, more information is needed. They don’t have enough Visibility. Not enough transparency. To be a High Value Man it needs to be at a glance. Again, your position and your income. Guys, you may have a lot of money but if it’s coming from sketchy areas where no one can understand where its coming from that does not give other High Value Man or even the public any real confidence that you are who you say you are. Again guys, it’s about the market, it’s what the world is thinking. They need to know that you are a High Value Man.

  1. Useful to others and the group

This is probably my favorite. A lot of times you hear people say “ I don’t want to be used…” No, I want to be used because that means I am useful. High Value Men are in-demand and useful. Their Prescence is felt when they’re there and their absence is felt when they’re gone. That is how you know when you’re really a High Value Man. How you can move things, your ability to influence things. That is your relative usefulness. In economics its called…(economic term. Udels? Youdels?) How useful are you to the group? There’s no High-Value-Homeless, neither are there any High-Value-Loners. If you have all these resources, all this stuff but its all hoarded for your own selfish ends, and no one can benefit from your money, your network or anything you have. How valuable are you to the group? The world? To other people? That’s what this comes down to. High Value Men are in demand and useful to other people.

As I said from the beginning, High Value is all the rage, all the buzz right now. I didn’t make it but I wanted to clarify what I mean when talking about it. The six basic principles of being a high value man and that by no means is the end of it. Each individual person after that six basic things they may put other things on top of it, they may have religious concerns, personal motivations. But those six core things need to be there. Look at it this way. High Value has been with us forever. There’s always been a ranking system, irrespective of race, culture, or period of time. You will see higher value men, or higher value individuals separate or be separated from the pack. That is how this works. You don’t have to like it but you do need to accept it, High Value men understand that the world is a competitive place. All is fair in love and war, right? High Value does two things for a man. It gives you more options, and it gives you an opportunity to get more favorable outcomes. If you want more options or more favorable outcomes, you need to increase your overall value. That principle is pretty well understood everywhere except when to comes to us. It gets personal, hard, and difficult. And some of us don’t like to reduce human beings to things that are so seemingly cold and calculated. Like it or not, that is what it is. We have civilized the world in general, we have evolved. But at the end of the day we still have that primitive brain, that hunter-gatherer, fight-or-flight and even though when wearing a suit and all that other kind of stuff, that is who we are when it gets right down to it. Better to know that exists than to ask yourself “what do you want to do about it?” and try and fight against this whole thing of High Value, or not High Value.

Last thing, just because you’re not a “High Value Man” does not mean you lack value or you have no value. Just because you may not be surprisingly useful to the group, does not mean you’re useless. High Value is not a way of saying “these guys are great” and “these guys are nothing” But it is a mark, it is a fact of life. IT comes into play when men are dealing with men, and women are dealing with men. You can’t get over it guys so you might as well understand it accordingly.

All words in the Youtube Video titled above are by Kevin. R. Samuels.

Transcribed and edited by Chase Manhart. March 10th, 2022.