Why am I writing this? Quite simply, i began writing this for myself. I realized that providing this for other people might be helpful, and forcing myself to lay out my thoughts and methods in a logical format helps to guide my own journey. Additionally, feedback and outside educated opinions can help to drive me forward, further into self growth and development. Let's begin.

Thoughts create actions. Actions create habits. Habits make up behaviors. Behaviors define your personality. Personality is the foundation of who we are. To change who we are, then, requires we create new habits. And to create new habits requires active thought, effort, and presence.

Taking The Red Pill is simple. You read a few books, a few posts by Rollo, a few rants by GayLubeOil, and you begin to understand. Primarily, you understand that the Disney Happily Ever After doesn’t exist. It goes beyond that. You see how society, including both men and women, care about men for their value and women for their appearance. You realize that people only associate with you for the value you offer. In sexual partners, they’re only interested in your Sexual Marketplace Value. Your sexual marketplace value is typically increased proportional to how ‘alpha’ you are, a vague phrase, to be certain, and one to be expanded on later on.

And so you begin to understand. The only way to increase both the quality and quantity of your sexual partners, then, is to increase your sexual marketplace value. And so you read The Rational Male. You read No More Mister Nice Guy. And they’re a great start. A great mindset. But you’ve been mislead your entire life. Where do you start?

Welcome. This ‘How-to’ guide will walk you through adopting Red Pill behaviors. Taking The Red Pill is simple. Becoming Red Pill is hard. But if you follow the framework laid out in this and future sections, you’ll make progress.

The first thing you need to realize is that, fundamentally, we are attempting to create new habits. There are two ways to go about this. The first is by realizing everything you’ve been doing wrong, and trying to change all of your traits and behaviors at once. This almost universally leads to failure and burnout. It’s too many changes at once, it’s too unfamiliar, its requires too much effort, and you end up quitting.

The second way is to make slow, consciousness changes in your life. You slowly build habits, and once you’ve ingrained a new habit, you add on another one. This will be the style we aim for, as we are looking to ingrain new life long habits. First we will talk about willpower, and then we will talk about habit formation.

So, first things first. Willpower is measurable, and willpower is an expendable resource. I’m not going to get into the details of the studies that suggest this, however it’s clear enough that you can say: expending willpower on one task decreases your available willpower for performing your second task. Entering a state of depleted willpower is something called ‘ego depletion’, where your brain fires more slowly, and you’re more likely to make impulsive decisions, like not going to the gym. This ego depletion is why you can feel exhausted after a day at work, even if all you’ve done is sit around. The purpose of creating habits is to decrease the relative amount of willpower required to perform a task. Once it becomes a habit, you begin to perform the habit automatically, and it requires minimal willpower.

This is what we aim for. Firstly, to increase your maximum willpower. Secondly, to decrease the amount of willpower each habit you want to adopt requires. Combining these together, you will transform your life.

In the next chapter, we will go over which habits you want to form. Then, down the line, we’ll outline how to form habits.

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