An essay at catholiceducation.org: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/religion/re0657.html

Aquinas' treatment: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3049.htm#article3

Aristotle: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.6.vi.html (scroll/search for ... actually, no, just read the whole damn thing)

I'm not going to go into detail about mentorship among redpillers, but I will say that young men on first coming to us often beg for a mentorship. As usual, the correct answer is no - recall the scene in the movie Fight Club where they make the recruits wait outside on the front porch for days - the Carthusians play the same mind game with prospective postulants. It's a shit-test, but a necessary one, because becoming a Carthusian is not something to be taken lightly (http://documentarystorm.com/into-great-silence/, if you are so inclined), nor is the redpill just a passing hobby that instantly puts you in touch with like-minded pseudofriends like becoming a Grateful Dead fan.

Docility is a lot like faith. Faith is the virtue whereby you are disposed to take God at his word, because of his authority. Docility, however, is the virtue whereby you trust your teacher because of his authority.

Recall the "wax-on, wax-off" scene/theme from the movie Karate Kid - Ralph Macchio didn't see the significance of the exercise until later, but Pat Morita knew exactly what he was doing. Morita was teaching him two lessons: first, how to fight; second, how to learn.

Once upon a time, an abbot ordered his monks to plant a vegetable garden. But he instructed his monks to plant the carrots thick-end-down. One novice, thinking to himself that Father Abbot didn't know shit, planted his carrots pointy-end-down. Next month, everyone else's carrots rotted in the ground except the novice's, which were sporting lush carrot-tops. Father Abott summoned brother novice and complimented him on his gardening. Brother novice bowed in acknowledgement - but then Father Abbot admonished him, "It's not about carrots, my son. It's about obedience."

Docility is tough for alpha men, because, made in the image of God, alphas answer to no one but themselves. But only a man can make a man, and getting made is impossible unless you quit your immature bullshit and do as you're told and learn what you're taught.

Aquinas, in his usual sinewy style, says:

Hence in matters of prudence man stands in very great need of being taught by others, especially by old folk who have acquired a sane understanding of the ends in practical matters. Wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. vi, 11): "It is right to pay no less attention to the undemonstrated assertions and opinions of such persons as are experienced, older than we are, and prudent, than to their demonstrations, for their experience gives them an insight into principles." Thus it is written (Proverbs 3:5): "Lean not on thy own prudence," and (Sirach 6:35): "Stand in the multitude of the ancients" (i.e. the old men), "that are wise, and join thyself from thy heart to their wisdom."

Tldr, shut the fuck up and listen to your elders.

Experience outranks theory. When I was a dumbass teenager in high school, I was doing a lab exercise measuring heat capacity. Everyone else was using styrofoam cups of hot water, but I insisted on using a silvered vacuum-flask. Teacher objected, "You're gonna break that". Sure enough....

I've gone on long enough. Dudes, if you want to be redpill, read the sidebar of course, lift, and next the bitch, but just as importantly, obey the mods, listen to the endorseds, give the benefit of the doubt to those among us with mars-points, follow our/their example, imitate us, and become awesome.