It seems like most men have a Charmin (®) personality aka too clean and super soft. A lack of struggle and a thick skin. Charmin (®) is a toilet paper brand that supposedly makes the softest and cleanest toilet paper. Being sheltered in the suburbs without real dangers has made men sensitive. It seems like most men have been neutered and are happy to appear as clean cut, non-threatening, and harmless. They have no animal ambition, sexuality, or any sense of danger. I strongly believe that this "participation trophy / politically correct" generation has failed to give young men the gift of hustling and struggling. Let's fix that. Here are five ways to toughen up!

 

Air Conditioning

If you want to toughen up, learn to give up air conditioning unless absolutely necessary. having air conditioning is making people way too soft. Why in god’s green earth do you need air conditioning all the time? I know people that live in an air-conditioned house, get in an air-conditioned car and go straight to work at an air-conditioned job. The walk in normal weather is such an inconvenience for them. They cannot survive above 75 degrees F/ 24 degrees C without complaining. For hundreds of thousands of years, mankind has survived without air conditioning. Being in the heat or cold helps your nervous system toughen up. You will develop a stronger frame because you will realize that you can deal with the weather and you won't die. If you can handle temperatures outside your comfort zone you're going to realize you can handle a little bit more in other things. Dealing with the heat helps develop you don't give fuck skills. The heat is what you need to get a little angry. Get uncomfortable so you learn how to handle the struggle. In prison there is no air conditioning and they survive to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You’re grown and need a little heat once in a while.

 

Air conditioning too common in office environments where HR has to lock the thermostat and keep the temperature at 69 degrees F / 20.5 degrees C. Real motherfuckers in the hood learned to walk in high temperatures as little kids and they developed heat resistance. They didn't die for being in the heat. Soft suburban kids complain when it’s a little too hot to play Xbox inside. I sometimes walk in 115 degrees F/ 46 degrees C weather to the grocery store to grab my condoms instead of driving for 4 minutes. I'm not going to die for walking 20 minutes in this weather. Neither are you! There are athletes in the NFL that have to run in high temperatures every god damn week during the Season. Toughen up and learn to live without air conditioning. Spending outside for 30 minutes a day will help you develop heat resistance. A high heat resistance means you will sweat less in high temperatures and hot weather won't feel as "hot". Try it for 1 week!

 

Drive Thru

 

Drive Thru culture makes men soft. Go order inside. I don't understand why people can't park their cars and go order inside. Instead, they choose to wait in the drive-thru for ten minutes like a farm animal while they wait for their food. A plate of mine got confused why I parked at KFC to eat inside. I told her that I'm not going to wait at the drive-thru for my food. I'm going to get off my ass and walk for a minute to pick up my food. No, I don't want to talk in the microphone all in a hurry. I'm going to take my time to order what I want instead of feeling like I have to choose a combo quick. I feel like I'm disabled waiting at the drive-thru. Like wow, I have to get someone to put Diet Coke with too much ice in my drink. I have two hands and should pour my own drink. Also why am I waiting in the car for ten minutes when maybe there’s a hot girl in line I can practice heartbreak on?

 

Seriously, if you can't walk for two minutes across the parking lot my lord are you SOFT! Probably don't feel like walking because the weather is a little too hot. SOFT! Those appetizing photos of combo meals are prominently featured on drive-thru menu boards for a reason: They are there to upsell customers and make the ordering process simple, and quicker. Drive Thrum’s unconsciously make you consume more calories because you get bombarded with deals, and it’s harder to picture the calorie count when you are talking in the microphone in a hurry. Go inside and order, you’re not a farm animal that has to wait for his food. Go get it! Even better, make your own food so you follow a proper diet! Say fuck you to drive thru's. That large order of fries isn't hustler food at all.

 

Cold Showers

Take cold showers or at least lukewarm showers. You're not a baby that needs warm water. Now you have probably heard of taking cold showers here at TRP. It has been scientifically shown that cold showers help increase testosterone. I'll keep it simple. Go read "Cold Showers Every Day Of The Year" by petrichordog here on TRP. Since you're soft and not going to read it let me give you the cliffs. Cold Showers reduce stress, strengthen your willpower, increase alertness, improve circulation, aid depression, increase fat loss; develop a strong immune system, speed up muscle recovery, drain your lymphatic system, and wakes you up! Stop being so soft and learn to survive for four minutes the way mother nature meant you to do. Turn on that faucet and see if your Frame is strong enough to handle some cold H20. If it's not then going on and warm that water. Go on. Baby needs his warm water and his warm blanket too.

 

The only people that need a warm shower are athletes that just got done with their game. For hundreds of thousands of years your ancestors used cold ass water. Cold showers are a natural reminder that you live in the real world and not a make-believe land where things have to be comfortable. Cold showers will help you stop daydreaming and taken it easy. Good luck lasting more than five minutes in the shower. Think, how you are going to handle shit tests when you can barely handle cold showers. Cold showers help you connect with your animal side. Ahrooo! Go on and hold your nuts when you shower. Let that cold water toughen you up like a prison felon. They are a reminder that not every little thing has to be pleasurable. Sometimes life has to feel painful for four hundred seconds so you remember life can be hard.

 

Airplane Mode

Smartphone notifications are making you care too much. Airplane mode that phone! Snapchat hoes. Instagram thots. Facebook friends. Discord bros. Are their notifications really that important? Why do you have to be so interconnected with everybody all damn day? You have probably read here on TRP that notifications mess up your dopamine receptors. Every bing sound and notification trains your brain to see it as a reward. Over time you give yourself ADHD checking your phone like an addict every few minutes. Stop that. Airplane mode that phone for a few hours and focus on what you have to do. That shorty can wait for you to text back, she isn’t that important. She can wait for 10pm because she should be Priority 7.

 

Make yourself busy and scarce. Airplane mode that phone already. If you can't handle being away from it from it for three hours then you're SOFT! Awwwww you have a phone addiction in your early 20s. How adorable. Real motherfuckers are hard to find, and harder to talk with. You should have a life mission. Something meaningful, not thinking of buying Cheetos from the corner store and then thinking what meme to send Sally. Smartphones are for winners who have important things to do. Haters should be part of your reality. If you don't have them then do something to earn them.

 

Math

Math is masculine. Logic, quantitative reasoning, and a computational mentality are what makes you mentally tough. The softest people avoid math. They're the psychology, liberal arts, and gender studies majors who hate hard work. Math is the pushups of the mind. Winners are good at math, and winners rule the world. Doing math helps strengthen the masculine parts of your brain. Math helps develop the one aspect of masculinity in its cold detachment from reality and its embrace of abstraction. I will even say Math helps develop Frame. The more you practice math the more your brain absorbs abstraction and gets rid of emotion. It's a skill that helps develop mental discipline and puts your mind to work. It also gets you out of your comfort zone! Good luck worrying about Sally when you trying to figure out how to pass quadratic equations.

 

Poor? Practice math at Khan Academy. Have some dough? For $19 a month an artificial intelligence program from the University of California called ALEKS can make you learn. Google "ALEKS" and sign up as an independent student. Even better, audit the College Algebra course, MAT117, from Arizona State University at EDx for free. That course uses ALEKS exclusively. You can train yourself to get a dopamine boost every time you do a math problem right.