I've recently read plenty of misconceptions as to what "being alpha" truly means.

"An alpha male is someone who helps others, has a good heart, and makes improving people his mission!"

Bullshit.

Morals and opinions are not what determine the "alphaness" of a Man, your most depraved and evil people in history are categorically alpha, while self-sacrificing do-gooders can easily be classified as betas.

Does this mean be evil? No. You can have a good heart and be an alpha male, however you must understand being good is not a requirement, or even a trait of being an alpha.

Being the "Top Alpha Male," or the "Bottom Beta Bitch" is not something etched into the stones of eternity -- often times such a position is contextual, or situational. You can have a large gathering of men who all have alpha traits, like a meeting of Business Executives, but the "Top Alpha" in that situation is the Man all the other men are listening to. Just because they aren't the alpha in that situation, doesn't mean they don't have alpha characteristics at all. Another example would be, at your local weight gym, the Top Alpha is the guy who can lift the most heavy shit or the most muscular dude, but throw him into an MMA gym, and suddenly he may very well be thrusted into the middle, or even lower echelons of that environment's hierarchy, by virtue of being able to have his ass kicked. He still has alpha traits, but in that situation, he is not the top alpha.

I keep alluding to "Alpha Traits," or "Beta classifications," and the reason for this is one you should take to heart throughout your Red Pill journey -- We use Alpha/Beta as easy to remember terms to label a type of man, but that is only short hand for its true meaning; the classifications of behaviors and tendencies.

No man is a Beta. They have a high number of beta characteristics.

No man is an Alpha. They have a high number of alpha tendencies.

The 4 TRUE Traits That Alpha Males Have

1.) An Alpha Is A LEADER

Whether you are leading peasant farmers in a revolt against the world's strongest Empire or leading your high-school sports team to victory, a true marker of alpha-hood is when other men (or women) are willing to follow you and obey you. Hate to break it to you, but there is no goddamn such thing as a Lone Wolf Sigma Alpha Male™. Alpha's and Beta's exist in sort of a Yin & Yang situation where one cannot exist without the other contrasting it. In other words, Alphas and Betas operate within Male Social Dominance Hierarchies, if you do not participate in any, that simply makes you an outcast.

You may be able to get girls, or have the other traits of being an Alpha, but if you are not leading people in your life or bending their wills to your own, then you simply lack this trait, and that's fine too, because remember that being alpha is not a concrete personality type, it is a synthesis of many traits, if you don't have one you can have others.

The trait of leadership is fairly easy to measure. When you say you are going to do something to your friends, do they insist on doing it with you? When you tell your woman you do or do not want her to do something, does she follow your lead of keep doing her stupid shit? At your work, are you giving orders or are you taking them, how high on the chain of commands are you?

2.) You Invoke Feelings Of RESPECT, Of FEAR, Or BOTH, In Other Men

How many times have you laughed at the guy who claims he is an alpha male while watching him get blatantly disrespected? Take a skim through askTRP and you'll see what I'm talking about.

"Guys I am a 100% certified alpha male but my best friend fucked my girl-friend. How can I reassert my dominance?"

In situations where both those feelings are lacking, but people disrespect you, then you should take some solace in the fact that they at least see you as a man, even if you're perceived as a beta man.

When you don't invoke any feelings in other people, not even disrespect, that is because they view you as a child. Nothing of noteworthy importance -- an insignificant non-factor in the Social Dominance Hierarchy.

(First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they hate you, then they envy you, then they celebrate you.)

When you have men informing you how much you inspire them, or how much they want to be like you, they admire you and your accomplishments unprovoked, or they are inviting you to their events because they feel you would bring valuable contributions to the meeting, you have their respect. When men question their own actions because out of worry for how you might react, when they go out of their way to hide their failures or shortcomings from you, when they always kiss your ass in your interactions, you have invoked their fear in you. Both of these feelings are a sign that you are on the same level of the social dominance hierarchy at worst, or many echelons higher at best.

3.) An Alpha Male Does Not Care About What Other People Think Of Him

There are so many true to life examples of this trait, and I know the lot of you aren't going to like some of them.

The drug dealer who runs the streets, ignoring the haters that call him a low-life thug, has this alpha trait whether you like it or not.

The fat neckbearded gamer, who doesnt care about social etiquette or being in shape, has this alpha trait whether you like it or not. He may lack every single other alpha trait in the book, either out of laziness or he just doesn’t have what it takes for the rest, but he has this one, the true "IDGAF" mentality.

It is not an Alpha trait to do what is good and virtuous, nor is it a beta trait to do what is bad and base. To understand the alpha-ness of your actions, you must simply question whether you do it because it is what you genuinely want to do, or if it is because that is what other people have lead you to desire. If it's the latter option, then in reference to the very first trait, you have let other men lead you, thus making you a follower.

This trait is difficult to ascertain, and should be assessed on a case by case basis.

If you are a 9-5 office working, doing it because "it's the right thing to do for my family, and my wife wouldn't approve of the job I really want to have even though I'm good at it," then you're a certified beta male, for letting other people determine your own life path.

If you're in a garage band because you think it's the best way to get girls and you want other guys to see you as cool, you are a certified beta, because you are putting on a performance only to invoke reactions and validations from other people. Once again, you are letting what other's think of you determine your actions.

Now on the contrary, if you're in the band because you love music, you're good at it, you love performing in front of crowds, and the groupies and fans are just a bonus -- Alpha as fuck.

If you Work in a 9-5 office and love it because you've realized it's an easy, effortless, sit on your ass all day job, and you've figured out how to spend half of it being paid to surf the internet without getting caught -- Alpha as fuck.

This one is the most difficult to ascertain for it is a measure of a man's mindset.

4.) Alphas Can Defeat Other Men In Combat

Whether it's play fighting to showcase your MMA skills to your friends, or thrusting your bayonet into an enemy's chest in the heat of battle, my most personal true indicator of an Alpha Male is the ability to defeat other men in combat.

To take this theory to its logical extreme, how can you claim you are more Alpha than another guy when that other guy fucking capped your ass?

"Oh he doesn't have emotional control so he had to resort to violence. I am a stoic alpha male while he is a murdering beta." Whichever way you spin it, all the justifications and rationalizations go out the window when you're fucking dead, and he's not.

In the case where the violence doesn't resort in death, but rather a fight, the same still applies -- all your justifications go out the window when you get knocked out by another man, even worse when it happens in front of your girl. There is no quicker way to get cucked in front of a girl than getting your ass whooped in front of her.

Of course, there is always someone bigger and badder than you -- but once again, being the Top Alpha is contextual and situational, and you can still have an abundance of Alpha Male Traits despite not being the top Alpha in a particular situation.

Three examples to help illustrate this idea:

When two Professional Cage Fighters meet in the ring to do battle, their ability to destroy an everyman, and even most trained warriors in combat, is indisputable. However, in all wars there will only be one victor. When the dust has settled and you see which fighter is covered in the blood of his enemy, that is when you've found the Top Alpha Male...

...Of that particular meeting of warriors. Fight "A" might be the top Alpha when compared to Fighter "B", but he has not fought Fighter "C" yet, therefore when they meet, they must fight for dominance yet again.

That's right, Alpha males fight for dominance. Look at any animal in the kingdom and you'll see the biggest men essentially trying to kill each other to establish control over the territory or the bitches. You think us humans are any different? Okay, we may have other traits that would make us alpha, but to forget one of our most primal traits of alpha-hood is to live in inebriated ignorance.

Back to the examples...

In a team of Navy Seals; all professionally trained killers, often their squad commander will ask his mates for an assessment of their current situation, and ask for opinions on how to proceed with the mission.

The captain's squad-mates will all give their input, but ultimately the captain will make the final decision on how to proceed.

They are all trained killers, and any one member of that squad could potentially kill any other individual member in combat, however the Top Alpha male in that situation is the Man the other Alphas are being led by.

The last example of this trait is if you are a scrawny nerd but have a gun, it doesnt matter how many years the other guy has lifted, how much time he spent fighting -- if he does not have a gun, you are the alpha in that situation. That may change if the gun falls on the floor, but, until then, keep your distance and you'll be in control of the situation -- i.e. the contextual alpha male.

CONCLUSIONS & CLARIFICATIONS

I want you to make note of one VERY crucial factor all these traits share:

ALL THESE TRAITS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH WOMEN!!!

If you've been paying attention, every single trait of being an alpha male is all in relation to your standing with other men in the social dominance hierarchy.

Some may say "well isn't getting laid by hot women an indicator of being alpha?" And I would contest that it is merely an indicator of your attractiveness. It is worth noting that having Alpha Male traits will make you much more sexually attractive to women, however women are often gullible and terrible judges of character, so they can sleep with some horrible characters that are not very alpha, and disregard Alpha Males who do not demonstrate the traits that make them Alpha.

The average hot girl is probably not thinking a fat mob boss is hot until he displays some sort of power yet he would be all of those traits. He leads other men. He has the respect of his crew and your fear because you know he could have you killed and disappeared in an instant. He does what he wants. But despite all that, the average women may not be attracted to him until that women learns of his power and position in the male social dominance hierarchy.

A common misconception about the social dominance hierarchy is just that -- that there is only one. Men's hierarchies are entirely different than women's, and what we consider alpha usually isn’t in the women's dominance hierarchy. An alpha women is the one able to identify the most alpha man, and submit to him. The most alpha man does not submit, he leads. Etc.

Now, the good news is, all of these traits can be cultivated. You now know a thing or two, but can you do a thing or two with that knowing?

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