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This entire post is pointless except for a few sentences. What you want to read is the comments. Don't waste your time on the wall of text. There is an applicable technique you can learn if you want. Just read "The Challenge".
After you take a quick look at the comments move on to my post The Weakness: Day 2 - Mindfulness

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Confession & Disclaimer

Today I have to come clean to you guys. See, I’ve been fucking around with this sub for about a week now. You could call it borderline trolling but I’m going to call it testing and experimenting because my aim isn’t to agitate or detract the sub, it’s to study and understand you guys along with myself. I’ve been baiting this sub with my posts and some comments with the specific intent. Hoping I can learn something and help some of you grow. I usually learn something for myself along the way.

 

Now I’ll address this right here and now. I’m going to be completely transparent with you and I know a lot of you are about to be super skeptical if you aren’t already.

You may be wondering If I’m bullshiting you. You may think this is some kind of backpedal from the last few posts I’ve made.

If you’ve been paying attention to the sub for the past week you’ll noticed this started with, ”How To Make A Girl Squirt”. To date that's the most controversial post I've made. 4 out of the top 6 most controversial posts I’ve ever made came from this week. This last weekend is also the first time I’ve ever released an article on a Saturday.

 

The Topic I’ll be writing about for the next 4 days is something I’ve been working on for months. It’s an extremely complicated subject to write on. I've already tried and failed 3 times, scrapping those versions. I've attempted to collaborate with /u/MentORPHEUS on this topic but even that attempt failed. I discussed it with /u/IamGale over skype a few weeks ago.

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My first attempt at this topic was actually 17 days ago with the post called, ”You Can Learn Something From Anyone”. The post was well received but I felt I failed to accurately articulate my points. I strongly suggest you go read it as it will put a bit of context into these next 4 days. The first two paragraphs kind of summarize this whole series though, I’ll quote it for those to lazy to read it.

 

"You Can Learn Something From Anyone”

For the past couple weeks If you’ve been following my posts or comments I’ve been lining out a lot of innate weaknesses of human nature. Weaknesses we all have, things we all share, and I've been helping some of you to stifle and overcome them. I’ve made detailed comments like, ”Reveling In Discomfort”, teaching guys how their fight or flight activates, how to control anxiety, how to not attach yourself to an identity or label and the pitfalls that come with that and everything in between.

Most of my writing lately comes from introspectively analyzing this sub. I notice correlations in the readers and try to help them understand the pro’s and con’s of their logic praxis. I then dissect and try to understand their line of thought and correlate it to how I think and my logic praxis. Once I gather enough info I see the strengths and weaknesses of not only them, but myself. This sub has taught me more about myself in the past few weeks than the past 10 years of introspection of myself(I’ve been doing self improvement a long fucking time).

 

Here is the full archived link for the lazy

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So if you are skeptical, and I know a lot of you are. ”You Can Learn Something From Anyone” was released 17 days ago. I’ve been attempting to articulate this topic for quite some time. It ended up taking 4 articles to convey it completely and a few shitposts to set the stage unfortunately along with about 20 hours of writing and editing. This series is going to be very unconventional and controversial by TRP standards and it's designed that way.

 

I don’t write these articles for some fictitious internet points or fame.

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I do it because every time I write about something, I learn something in return.

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Let’s get started.

 

 

What Is TRP?

This subreddit is designed to find and draw correlations in human behavior. Specifically women’s behavior so that we can use that knowledge to better ourselves.

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We’ll this week I’m going to attempt the reverse on all of you. It’s going to be a similar process like the in "You Can Learn Something From Anyone" but with a different approach.

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I’ll be releasing 5 articles through the week in a series i’m calling ”The Weakness” in which i’ll be taking you through your own assisted introspection. I’ll be unraveling my own introspective praxis along with my analysis of this sub over these past few months and showing you a part of yourself you may or may not be aware of.

 

Summary

  • The first article of this series is a simple challenge.

  • The second will be some positives with some analysis and a technique I use quite frequently.

  • The third post will be the harshest. I will be revealing this weakness i’ve seen across the sub using some of you as examples I’ve gather this past week or so. If I cite you, don’t take personal offense, I’m just using examples. This is something we all do, myself included.

  • The final post will bring everything full circle. In a lot of ways you won’t understand this series till you reach the end. It’s designed that way and it’s also impossible to write it any other way. This is the main reason why I’ve found it so difficult to write about. This entire series will require a full 360 understanding of it before it makes sense.

 

My purpose of writing for TRP is to better myself and help some of you along the way.

 

 

 

Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I've Found

The reality is, I’ve been fucking around with you guys for a couple months now. Testing out different styles of writing, posting topics I know will be extremely controversial like ”Dick Health”, noticing correlations in the readers and how well a post is received. Testing which is more effective? Really detailed posts, really vague posts, post with arbitrary statistics like they teach in mass marketing, throwing in wordplay like GLO posts, making factual and cited posts like "Don't Listen To The Police" or "Understanding Women's Three brains", posts with twists and turns and everything in between that I can think of. My personal favorite of these tests would be ”The Golden Rule” were I radically changed my writing style. Go reread it if you want. Pay attention to how radically different that posts style is compared to my others.

 

Through these past couple months though I’ve finally found a correlation.

 

Unfortunately it is a negative correlation. My personal opinion is it’s a fatal flaw holding a lot of you back on how rapidly you could be progressing yourself. But that’s just my opinion. It might not be a big deal to you and that’s fine. But I’m still going to point it out so you can at least see it and know it’s there.

This weakness has been talked about, posts have been made on it, but so many of you seem to still fall into it's grasps. It finally came full circle for me last week when I posted the squirting article. Since then I’ve been poking and prying at this sub with my posts and a few of you at random in the comments in order to flesh this out.

 

 

The Post That Has No Point

Today this isn’t going to be my typical TRP post. This post has no punchline. No direct applicable advice. No stats or findings. No bulletin points. No Lessons learned. I’m not going to tell you this flaw I see. I’m not going to tell you the benefits of fixing it. The Pros or Cons. Nor are you going to learn about alternative methods.

 

because I’m going to make you see this flaw in yourself over the next 4 days.

 

This flaw I’ve found is an innate weakness in every one of you. Including myself. Because this flaw is a human characteristic. Just like solipsism, narcissism, ego, gluttony or entitlement, this is a trait we all share.

 

But if we understand it, we can improve it.

 

Today I’m going to give you a challenge. This challenge has 2 options.

One of those options is a technique I learned that I’ve found to be extremely beneficial but I’m not going to tell you why it’s beneficial, what it’s called or why you should or shouldn’t do it. It’s your decision if you want to take that option.

 

 

The Challenge

I’ve already cleared this with the /u/redpillschool. Today I’m going to give you two options. You must choose one of them. There are rules and the mods will enforce them. The only comments allowed in this post are to be revolving around your personal observations when you try this. No discussion of its importance, name or discussion will be had. This is a sub wide experiment and you are your own case study.

 

Rules

  • Some of you already know this technique. You are NOT to discuss the name of this technique in the comments.
  • You will not discuss the benefits of this technique
  • You will not discuss the cons of this technique
  • You will not discuss the alternative of this technique
  • You will comment on your observations and that is it
  • You must select an option

 

 

Option 1

Go into your bathroom. Turn the water to as hot as you comfortably can get it.

 

Turn on some music you like. Start singing along, get into the music. Dance if you want to. This sounds like a stupid point but it is probably the most important and you’ll fuck this up if you don’t. So get music and sing. Dancing is optional. But you MUST sing. If you feel you can't, at least hum along or sing in your head.

 

Get into the shower

 

Focus on the music for 1 minute.

 

Then turn your hot water off completely so only ice cold water is hitting you. And I mean hot water COMPLETELY off. You will be in pain. It will be horrible. When I did it my heart rate actually spiked from 70 to 150. So trust me, it will be absolutely horrible. Don’t stop it.

/u/Red-Paladin

Please be very careful if you have known heart issues. Going from hot to direct cold can cause cold shock response leading to cardiac arrest.

 

Stand in the ice cold water for 30 seconds.

 

Turn it back to as hot as you had it.

 

Repeat this process 4-6 times and record your results and post them in the comments.

 

Comment Format

This is how I want you to format your comment.

 

Natural State:

Average Word Count:

State Before Shower:

Observations Between Temperature Changes:

Observations for the rest of the day:

Word Count Today:

 

Explination

Natural State: What is your default state? Are you a natural stoic? An extreme stoic? Are you curious like a cat? Charismatic? Pessimistic? Skeptical? Analytical? Outgoing? talkative? Are you multiple? A analytical stoic? Skeptical optimist? Talkative & curious? List your general frame day to day. Can be 2 words or a short description.

 

Average Word Count: How many words do you usually speak in a day? The average woman speaks 20,000. The average man speak about 7,000. How many do you think you speak?

 

State Before Shower: How do you feel before the shower? What time are you trying this at? Are you groggy? Tired? Awake? Did you just come back from a party and are really talkative? Did you just get done with an 8 hour shift and didn’t speak to a single person? Been browsing the internet all day alone? Where you having a good day? Bad day?

 

Observations Between Temperature Changes: What happened when the ice water hit you? Are you still able to sing or hum along? Are you able to focus on the music? What are you focusing on? What does your body feel like? can you feel things you didn’t before? Do your hands feel weird? Feet feel weird? Head feel compressed or relieved? Can you feel your heartbeat? If so where do you feel it? What happened when the hot water came back? How congested are you? Were you before getting in? List everything you feel in the moment as the ice hits you. The more times you go from ice to hot, the more times you will notice stuff. Pay attention to yourself and your body.

 

Observations for the rest of the day: How did you feel after getting out of the shower? How about a couple hours after the shower? Are you talking to people more? In a better mood? Worse mood? How many words do you think you usually speak on average every day? How many did you speak today after the shower? List anything you notice different about today vs any other day.

 

Word Count Today: Yes or No. Do you think you spoke more words today than normal? Was the shower the reason or something completely unrelated today that might have caused it?

 

 

 

Option 2

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Don’t do option one.

 

Comment Format

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I Choose Option 2.

 

In the comments, state, ”I choose option 2”. You can leave a reason if you want to, you don’t have to though and doesn’t really matter. I just need to know how many people read this post and didn’t do option 1 for data collection, that’s it.

 

You aren’t required to do option 1, option 2 is perfectly acceptable, just state you did option 2.

 

Remember, You must choose option 1 or 2. Just like choosing the red or blue pill, you must choose one.

 

If you decide to do option one then I suggest you get a pen and paper, use your phone or tablet, whatever and write your observations down as soon as you get out of the shower. You’ll probably forget a lot of it by the time you reach a computer to note it. If you are comfortable with it, use voice memo on your phone and just say anything you saw. Then transcribe it once you get to a computer.

Again, no discussion in the comments. Only post your option and the correct comment format.

 

 

Tomorrow we will talk about some things about some stuff, using some words.

 

Also don’t PM me with questions, I’m not telling you anything on purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

Examples

 

 

I Chose Option 2

 

 

 

Natural State: Extreme stoic

average Word Count: 100 - 5,000. I don’t speak a whole lot. Spend a lot of time in my head.

State Before Shower: Kinda groggy. 10am, slept well but not fully awake. Little bit of congestion. Haven’t talked or socialized today.

Observations Between Temperature Changes: Couldn’t focus on music. Extremely painful. Pretty much just said ”fuck” the entire time the ice was on. Couldn’t think about anything other than stopping the ice water. Could feel my muscle contracting, breath knocked out of me. Hands and feet felt weird. Could feel my heartbeat after I turned it back to hot. Hot water let me refocus on the music and singing.

Observations for the rest of the day: felt more awake. Didn’t really go socialize but I did feel different in some way. Can’t really explain it.

Word Count Today: about the same but then again I didn’t really get a chance to talk to anyone very much.

 

 

 

I Chose Option 2

 

 

 

Natural State: Charismatic warm

average Word Count: 15,000. I'm in sales

State Before Shower: slept fine. awake more than usually

Observations Between Temperature Changes: I cussed the entire time. could focus on the music a little bit. dancing was about as graceful as a dude with Tourette. Muscles locked up

Observations for the rest of the day: Felt more awake. felt less clutter brained. felt a little bit more outgoing. Not like i was king of the world but a noticeable difference

Word Count Today: i don't think i talked more but the conversations felt... different