Disclaimer

I am not some perfect example of a man following the redpill path to the letter. Take everything here with a dump truck of salt until you have verified on your own. You are entitled to your own opinion based on your experience and knowledge.

Introduction

First let's start with the title and how it relates. Know thyself is a shortened version of a quote from Socrates; "To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom". Basically the majority of people out there do not seek wisdom because they never do enough introspection and analysis of one's own nature to consider it seeking wisdom. They seek knowledge, facts, data, information to be used, abused, and exploited.

I find that the majority of RP advice and literature out there that I have consumed for a decade (if not more) has always been watered down, boiled down, to some basic fundamental principles, acronyms and rules. Young men read them, follow the, see results, and never understand the why and the how. They simply reap the results from thousands of years of human knowledge and observation. If I act like this I get this, if I say this, I get this. Its a simple linear formula of approach more, get laid more. Its basic, and it works, and I do not argue that it is fundamentally, a-okay.

But getting older and having less fucks to give day by day, and less patience to put up with people who don't grow out of the loop of approach, lift, fuck, repeat, I have been going back to my roots and studying a lot of psychology and biology. Originally I was a med school major, but I never graduated, choosing to jump into a plethora of fields and having my own firm that doesn't even come close to medicine. But I decided to dig deep and combine philosophy, rp, with a whole bunch of new information about the human body and psyche.

Personality Theory

I would first really advise everyone who hasn't to really dig deep into yourself, and figure out how your personality works. Personality theory isn't the be all end all since the amount of genetic combinations is so vast it is nearly impossible to get a pure type. It is handy though to get a glimpse into how you function, as well as people in general. Fundamentally you have a hero function (the be all judge and jury of your mind, the final stopping point of all information), a parent function (the one that looks for data for living purposes that passes said data to the hero function), a child function (the function that is naive and spends a lot of its time making you think that you have it all figured out which constantly argues with the parent to convince the hero it is right), and an inferior function (the function that is the weakest link of your psyche commonly linked to your deepest insecurities).

I won't go into all the details, but if you look at personality functions (MBTI and/or Carl Jung's theories) these functions line up to the above paragraph. I will give an example. Let's say you are an INTJ (a typical engineer). A basic decode: the hero function is internal intuition, which internalizes and digests all information collected by the second (parent) function based on your own morality and ideology. The parent function being external thinking, meaning that you collect your data from the thoughts and logic of the people around you. Your child function is internal feeling, which being in the child slot, means your feelings are naive, over simplified, and don't take into consideration external factors. And your inferior function is external sensing, which makes your insecurity, the fear of new experiences and the unknown physical world (usually manifests in the inability to physically leave your comfort zone and subconscious slavery to one's parents).

Philosophy

I very much dislike the term philosophy and its associated stereotypes. A lot of philosophy is associated with a bunch of old farts pretending to be deep thinkers and never really doing anything. But I would like to remind you that some of the greatest philosophical works were written by emperors.

I can advise for you to read a whole bunch of philosophical works, but honestly, its up to you. Some of them can be quite a drag, but not for me. I will advise you stay away from philosophers who focus too much on arguing about religion and/or spirituality as this is an honest waste of brain function. Again, since the definition of philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, wasting time arguing about if God's exist or not productive. Stick to stoics for now.

Fundamentally, understanding why you think about what you think about, why you do what you do, and digging deep into yourself and giving honest answers is fundamental to growth.

I do not mean this in a way that if all you want is to fuck good pussy then you need some deeper meaning. It really doesn't matter, claim it to be a biological need or emotional, it really is up to you. I just never wanted to dilute myself into a mindless slave of any system, and the red pill is just another system of living. Imagine, blue balled fucks are completely okay with their existence and even consider it to be the norm, and unless they think about it critically with no predisposition to right or wrong, they will continue to live the way they do, and judging them is essentially pointless since they simply follow the one and only system they have ever tried.

At least to me, TRP, the red pill, signifies truth and answering truthfully to everything, especially sex.

Biology

There are some very simple biological processes that explain the majority of why things happen the way they do in our lives. Why do men change when they get married? Because the hunter has caught its prey? Maybe, but at least from a biological perspective, a single male's sympathetic nervous system has to go from keeping itself alive and doing the bare minimum, to taking into consideration anther biological being and all the responsibilities there of. Why do women seem to always be airheads and can't think past their own nose? Because they take the path of least resistance to acquire the desired dopamine response. This is why modern men, are actually women! Because they have been reprogrammed to do the same through the use of the internet. If the only way to achieve a greater dopamine high after becoming royally numb to watching other people get married is to get married yourself, then that is what a woman will aim for.

Heck, even post nut clarity is more than just a myth. When you cum and your sexual hormones subside, you are left with an abundance of oxygen and adrenaline, which in combination puts your brain in to an awake, almost espresso like state, stimulating the sympathetic nervous system to be prepared to fight or run.

Aiming to understand how our body works, especially your specific body, is just common sense. Every person is slightly different and understanding how to maximize your body's potential is crucial. I had a friend one time, who pretty much couldn't sleep normally, no matter how hard he tried, and would end up being horribly depressed and unproductive. After a ton of digging (this was years ago) he devised a schedule, where he would go to sleep 2 hours ahead, every day, for a year. To figure this out, he stayed away until he no longer could and went to sleep, recorded the time (lets say 9pm), that meant the next day he would go to sleep at 11pm, and then 1am, and so on. I have never seen someone be so productive sleeping for only 5 hours a day. To this day he works 2 full time senior developer jobs and make's nearly 400k USD a year and still has time to party. Its wild but that was his biological method of maximizing his potential.

TLDR:

Understand the psyche, understand the reasoning, understand the biology. Keep learning.