The antebellum

00:00:01HOST

Yeah. So I'm back on coffee and my gut is absolutely nuked nuclear. Unbelievable how poisonous this is, but it feels so good. It's just like a battle with yourself, you know what I'm saying?

Like if you, if you tip over, there is a threshold with coffee where when you OD on it in the morning, you're just in like a daily warfare psychological battle with yourself. And if you remember some of my old, old school scripture and some of my emails, I used to have an email list a couple years ago. I said the first battle of the day has to be won between yourself. So what I'm doing is I got a lot of things cooking right now and I'm actually releasing and this is a super, super early bird, early bird special.

But I am doing an intensive in person three day weekend. It's going to be in late November and it's going to be very intimate and it's going to be in a very, very high end setting. I'm basically going to rent out a temple with candelabra. The ambience is going to be sick.

But basically I'm gonna take 20 people max, which is about all I care to handle. And we're gonna have a three day straight weekend. I'm gonna pry open cavities and I'm gonna be goring oxes. It's going to be a life changing event and you're gonna have to feel the verve, you're going to have to the.

The verb's gonna have to be palpable. And that's why I really want to concretize a lot of my philosophy. And that's why I want to take this to the real world because eventually you got to get offline and you got to actually concretize principles. And so I want you to feel the thunder cackle in the real world.

It's going to be very expensive by the way. But if this is something that interests you, you can jump in my DMs right now. I'll feed you the details before it officially releases this week. I got a Nifty lander, I got a whole digital brochure that I'm going to be releasing.

But if you want to jump in now, you know these spots are going to fill the up fast. So like I said, 20 heads max, three day event. We're going to do some groundbreaking work there. I do want to discuss, I want to kind of sweep you guys across a different plane this morning.

I really want you guys to comprehend the notion that the realms that men are attracted to are realms of the feminine, realms of the abstract. That's why men truly do get their rocks off from psychological thrills, from adventure, from experiences, from power. The intangible realms. The feminine realms is what draws men in.

And. And I'm here to tell you that this is why to a sub degree, men don't give a flying about material things. Material things are what women are attracted to. Do you understand?

A man doesn't give a. If he's sleeping on a futon or sleeping on the high steps of a castle. We'll make it work. We'll make it work.

But bling trucks. Money that gets extruded into physical objects. Shiny. That's what women are attracted to.

You know what I'm saying? So men are. Women love the. The physical properties.

That's why women are drawn in to those realms. But men, we get our confidence, we build our foundation in the psychological. And there's no roller coaster. There's no sucker.

That's U C O R for those of you clever linguistic sucker. There's no evacuation that can draw you away from the psychological building blocks and power blocks that make you a man. It's why I've always told you being a man is a state of being. It's a state of being.

There is no action, and I want to emphasize this. There's no action that you can take as a man to be a man, if that makes sense. It ain't billions. It ain't millions, it ain't trillions.

There's no garment, there's no cape. There's nothing you can adorn your skin that can make you a man. Do you understand? It's when you're laying in repose, the superposition of where you stand right now, what radiates and emanates from inside your dome.

That's what makes you a man. And I had a tweet last week that I think deserves expansion. It was a heater. And it was about how men can take the most aggravated losses and salvage them for some of the biggest wins that they could possibly imagine in their life.

And this is. This is true on a scale if you're. Especially if you're blazing your own trail. You know what I mean?

And. And the reason why there's people in your life who will panic and freak out and flip out if you've made disastrous mistakes because they're preaching to you from their place of discipline, not your own. It's been proven time and time again throughout the annals of history that the story Ain't over until the fucking fat lady sings. So if you're caught in the muck and you've made disastrous mistakes on your version of a heroic mission, Story ain't over yet.

Story ain't over yet. What the are you panicking for? Because when you go that to a place that no man has ever been before, the avenues and opportunities are so bountiful, it's incomprehensible. It's inconceivable.

The way you can wrangle and lasso and transmogrify a loss into the biggest win of your life. But here's the key, here's the secret. You have to be monolithically obsessed with one thing. Because when desperate times do come at your doorstep will tap out and they'll take an awful opportunity, an awful opportunity just to get some pep in their step or get some food in their belly, whatever the it is.

And now you are completely off target. Whereas the who's sticking to one thing and putting up shots and swinging wildly and missing and missing and things up and making hundreds of mistakes. When he rejects shitty opportunities in the midst of that, mired in that concentric circle, what he's really doing is he's pulling back on the drawstring of that bow. And when that bow string snaps, that serrated arrow, that piercing fire tipped arrow is going through fucking walls.

The impact is devastating. He's at the bottom of the slingshot. And if you have the mental prowess and the mental capability of sitting at the bottom of the slingshot when nothing's going right, loss after loss after loss, despair after despair. And you're at the bottom of the slingshot.

You best believe when those bands snap back, you're. You're catapulting through the skies higher than you possibly could have ever been before. Astronomical heights can come just from focusing and stabilizing your eyes and redoubling your efforts. Looking through that aperture, looking through that lens, never pivoting, monolithically obsessed with one objective and never veering.

Never veering, never lowering your standards ever. Under any circumstance. And that's where these crazy are born. You look at a like Elon Musk.

It's not even about the mission at times that just wants to feel alive, wants to feel the breath of deck of death on his neck. Letting things pile up, just letting things pile up and letting the fire lick at your feet. And sometimes you have to sit there and let the fire somewhat engulf you so that you can recharge. And then once you're in it, you realize it ain't all that bad, but that's the hardest part for, is really start to panic.

And then they take dog opportunities, they start banging mids, they start fucking just taking horrible opportunities across the board. And you never let the miracle happen. You didn't allow it to happen because you couldn't hold on. That's why.

Look, IQ is a very malleable force, Very, very malleable. It's pliable because there's things that get factored into IQ that are completely intangible, like persistence, like resiliency. I, I will venture to tell you, I don't believe for one fucking millisecond that it's IQ that took humans to the top of the food chain. I think it's resiliency.

I think it's resiliency. The, the, the brain, the human mind is very likely the most indestructible entity known to this universe. There is nothing that you will observe in nature as indestructible and as elastic as the human brain. And a lot of times when you guys look at geniuses or brilliant works of art, what you're seeing is just the product of someone who was resilient enough to get through the hard times.

Had nothing to do with intelligence. It's just a gritty, tenacious, pig headed that was too stubborn to back down. You know what I mean? I actually think genius to a large degree is a psyop.

The, the mainstream culture shoves geniuses in your face and they make you tap out. Because most people, when they see, when they see a commensurate work of art, they don't understand that the common folk, the average folk, can actually make addendums to the greatest works that have ever been completed. Do you understand? Like, we live in the era of the average man.

So the average man, through his own psychonautical voyaging can actually make referendums and addendums to the best works that have ever been created. And a lot of this is happening by mistake just through live, just through living and publishing thoughts and ideas over and over again. Addendums are being made, footnotes are being created. You know what I'm saying?

And so people see genius and it just makes them tap out. I don't, I even believe that some people were cosmically designed, cosmically sculpted by nature to tackle certain problems. So what looks like a genius to you actually was just very easy for that particular individual in that era. Like that, that person was designed to solve that particular issue.

And that's just what a lot of it is like. I'll be very, very, very shrewd, crude with you right now. Ever. Never met a brilliant Jew.

I think the whole Ashkenazi IQ thing is a psyop. What you have to understand about Jewish culture is that they rush into the hottest fields. They have the audacity and the balls to rush into the hottest industries. And that's been sort of hardwired and baked into their culture.

And so what looks like high IQ to you is just simply fucking someone, being audacious and having massive balls. And that's just what a lot of this is. It really is a game of attrition. How long can you last?

You know, there's a. There's a Taoist saying. It's one of my favorites. It's very esoteric.

I believe in Daoism. There is a quote that compares the man riding the wave to the drunkard. And in this quote, it says something to the effect of the drunk who gets thrown from the carriage doesn't get injured the way a normal person would because his spirit is whole. I'm going to say that again.

The drunkard who gets thrown from the carriage does not get injured like a normal person would because his spirit is whole. And this, this kind of goes back to my point about leaning into your nature. The. The shell on in the mail hardware is very, very, very thick.

That's why when you're on the mission, when you're on the mission, you can dress like a hobo. You can go weeks at a time without shaving, showering, manicuring, taking care of your appearance on, on the mission, you can even go six months without getting laid. And you don't give a. Because all that does is just nuke the shell.

The spirit is intact. The spirit bends, but it does not break. And so when you are committed like a madman to one single cause, and you know that you have entered this war for life, because winning a war is a myth, by the way. You only win battles in life.

Once you enter a war you have entered for life, you ain't ever getting out. There's no extrication. You're stuck. Once you, once you enter a war.

And so when it comes to the mission, you have made a pledge, you have made a blood oath that you are committed for life to the mission. And once you've established this in the marrow of your bone, you can take unbelievable damage to the hole. Do you understand? You can take unbelievable damage to the shell.

You can nuke it hundreds of times over. And the spirit doesn't go down. Wailing if anything, the spirit gets the pilot light flicked on and it flickers even brighter. And that's what I want to say is that if your spirit, if you ever find your spirit breaking, it's often times because men will confront various.

Men will confront various episodes in the saga of life where they need a good depression, they need a good little battle with despair in order to high hurdle the next obstacle. And there's a reflexive nature in man to resist this, to be a tough guy and not let this shit engulf you, not let it overtake you. But the reality is, is that is extremely disruptive to the energy flow. There comes a point in time where you just have to let the forlorn nature seep all the way in.

You gotta let yourself slink down into the depression. Because the way forward, and I want you to pay attention to this, the way forward is oftentimes down, not up. There is a path forward through descendancy. This is very common.

We know that, that, that we've seen. And look, this is where the nerd, when someone calls someone a nerd, a nerd is basically someone who's built somewhat of a simplex around the notion that you are supposed to linear, linearly stack, winds into ascendancy, which we all know is complete. We all know success is far from linear. That's a video game mindset.

That's why it's for nerds. This idea that you just level up, level up, constantly win over and over and over again. Let me tell you something. Right now, I am so harmonious with my own nature and the way that I do things and the way that I learn that if someone came to me right now and brought this deal to my desk, I would reject it swiftly.

If someone came to my desk right now and said, I have a protocol in a market, let's say crypto, I can earn you guaranteed 5% a week. 5% a week. I can earn you guaranteed for the next year. I would turn it down. I'd say, get the out of my office.

Because for me, it's soul killing. It's soul killing. For me to sit there and fucking grow my portfolio, copy and pasting somebody else's fucking information. I do not have it in me to live that life.

I don't give a fuck how much money there is to be made. I don't care. It is going to fucking kill my soul. I know there's a better way.

If someone comes to me and tells me they can make me a guaranteed 5% a week, my ego kicks in and I'm like you. I can find a better way. I can make 10 a week on my own. And I don't give a fuck if it's delusional or not.

I will figure out a way to do that. It's always been my way or no way. Always. That's why I haven't.

Look, the book that I just wrote, it's done in probably two weeks. It's going to be an adjunct to the docu series. I don't have it in me to sit here and fucking pedal that book. I decided that book, it's probably the greatest work that I've ever created.

I'm going to have to release it for free. I have to. There's something in me that will not allow me to sell a fucking $50 or $100 eBook. It's just off brand.

It just does not resonate with me. I cannot sit here. I don't give a fuck if it's a keepsake for my most loyal hardcore base. I'm going to have to just give that away for free because it just doesn't feel right.

Something about it just doesn't jive. There's no way I'm pedaling a ebook. Everything I do is high, high, high, high end. And that's the way it's going to stay and that's the way it's going to remain.

And it goes back to my point. I had another tweet, I believe, last week about desperation. There have been times, you motherfuckers have no clue where I have gotten absolutely fucking lacerated, millions of dollars pissed away. And I was in a very, very agitated, desperate state.

And I knew easily. My DMs are filled with who are trying to fucking collaborate, have me push products. I. There's nothing in me that can sell out.

There's. There's literally no amount of money that will allow me to sell out. Zero. Like I could be on my last dollar, homeless.

And I ain't selling my ebook. I'm gonna hold on for dear life. I will take mountains of more pain to push the thing that I really want to fucking push, which is my full faith and conviction and belief in the fucking heroic mission. That's why I push that shit.

I'm never doing it ever. I don't give a fuck if it's a quick buck. I don't give a fuck what it's going to do in the short term. And this has to do with my whole philosophy about letting the past fucking burn, which is the hardest thing for a motherfucker to do, by the way.

Let me tell you something. There were times. There were times where I was making so much money hand over fist in the golden times, in the Renaissance times. And the spoilage, the spoilage of speedrunning and moving so quickly was so astronomical.

At times, moving so fast, placing wagers so large, pushing my horses out of the stable, racing my ponies so fast. Every fucking day I. I'm moving so quickly that I would just be littering up, making mistakes, and leaving tons of money on the table. And I've never looked back.

I remember there was a run I was on. It was one of the biggest betting runs. This was a couple years ago. I was so impulsive, shipping crypto around, moving money.

I was sent. I sent like $86,000 into the abyss. It was supposed to be an ERC20 token. I sent it on some fucking wrong network exchange sends me some email saying it's not supported.

We'll email you when there's support for this particular token. I was like, dude, fuck you. I don't give a fuck about the 86. Burned it, wallets full of cash, earned it.

Just fucking absolutely torching money. Just being reckless because of that abundant mentality. And then I would fall upon hard times and a motherfucker on my team would be like, hey, remember that money that we sent to that wallet? It's still there.

I bet you we could fucking open a support ticket. I bet we could fucking put some pressure on them, try to get fucking, you know, figure this out. I'm like, dog, that shit happened six months ago. I am.

I am on a whole different fucking wavelength. I don't care if that money can save my life. I do not have the mental bandwidth to go backwards. I can't fucking do it.

There's nothing in me that will allow me to go try to collect anything that I've left on the table in the past. I remember there was a fucking account that I had that was not KYC overseas, and I won like half a million bucks. And they wouldn't pay me because I couldn't KYC the account. I just let it burn.

Literally. I got half a mil sitting in some account somewhere, offshore, some books. I'll never be able to collect the money because I couldn't KYC it. I've had tons of people come to me and be like, yo, we could figure this out.

Are you talking about figure this out? I'm in a time stream that's moving forward. I don't give a fuck what's sitting there. From nine months ago.

It's a mental thing. It's a mental thing. I will not allow myself to go backwards because I know the pitfall of that. I know the pit that a man can work himself into when he's sitting on his fucking hands and knees waiting for past things to work the fuck out.

It's nonsense. One of my favorite fucking scenes in the movie Top Gun. Tom Cruise loses his wingman. Goose gets killed in the movie, and he's standing.

Tom Cruise, later in the movie, standing in the bathroom, and he's looking in the mirror and he's basically tearing up and he's reflecting on the fact that his buddy just died. And Viper, the. The lieutenant, the headmaster of the elite flight school unit they're in, comes over and he taps him on the shoulder and he's like, you got to let him go, kid. You got to let him go.

And it's so simple, but that message has always been so profound to me. You gotta let it go, kid. You gotta let it go. There's.

That's like. That's literally classic parochial wisdom. Like, if you don't stop moving as a man, there's so many avenues and roads that you could be building that you miss out on. That's the point.

And as long as you keep that forward vision, you can correct past mistakes to an order of magnitude that you couldn't fathom. That's the fucking point. It's not about me not going back and trying to collect the 86k that I fucking launched into the fucking ether. It's about the fact that I know that if I erase that from my mind and focus on what I know I'm good at, I can fucking 10x that down the road.

But I'm not gonna ever engrave a. A mental groove in my brain chemistry that allows me to hold on to events that are gone. Because the best is always ahead. It is always ahead, and I stand by that.

That is a hill that I have seen over and over again. I will die on that hill. The best opportunities are always ahead of you. Always.

And it's a superpower. It's a complete fucking superpower. Letting the past be the past and moving forward in the time stream, because you guys know the type of opportunities that are popping every day around this planet. It's infinite.

It's fucking infinite. You know what I'm saying? Loss is finite. There's only so much you can lose.

Loss is a finite figure. But gaining is unlimited. And that's what I want you guys to fundamentally understand. Gaining is.

Is completely unlimited. There's no ceiling on how much you can gain in life, but there's only so much you can lose. So always fight for the upside. Always.

It's a rule of thumb. Let's bring up a question. Let's throw some wrenches in this bad boy. Howdy, Brew.

What's up, man? Yo. So the Mission had to step off the pulpit for a second to smoke. Go ahead.

00:28:14CALLER 3

Sick break. So the mission, I think, like a lot of men need to get away from maybe is like they. They need like some credit. So like, if you're to take like a.

A music producer, like, you know, the hotshot salesman and stuff, a lot of them, they. They want like that big moment, you know, that big W. Or like, like, let's say they get like a million plays on a song or something like that. But don't you think that, like, it's not, it's.

It's not about that, you know, it's like completely the opposite. Like, even if you look at the greatest, like, you only get that small moment, even if you were to hit that to celebrate. And it's only. And it's going to be a very personal thing to where you're not really, like, sharing that with the whole world almost.

Even, like, maybe you have one night with your woman or something or your boys and you celebrate. But like, yeah, I just want to get your thoughts on that. Like how, how, like it's kind of inhibiting to the process of the mission, how these men, they want some credit or something in terms of their mission when they haven't even achieved anything yet.

00:29:21HOST

100. So, I mean, it kind of. Exactly. So it's kind of circular logic here, but that is correct.

So how it works is this. It's these, these experiences that men subject themselves to. They accumulate exponentially, kind of like a snowball. And so when I'm sitting in a business meeting and let's say I've just been cold clocked for $10 million and I don't even have a penny in my pocket, you best believe if you put me in a business meeting, pitted neck and neck with some guy who just inherited 5 million, who has zero life experience, you bet your ass, when it comes to negotiations, I'm the better horse to bet on because I'm sitting there in that room with my accumulated experience.

I am very steady internally because I've seen gruesome, horrific things. I have exposure to experiences. I've survived those things. One of the most important things that a man can ever do is Call upon his past experience.

If you know you did something in the past and you can do it again. That's the power of being a man. And so when someone has a newly lifted experience and they come into a massive sum of money without technically earning it, they're fucked. Because like I said in that tweet, it just makes you shinier.

So the guy who goes for the smash hit, like you said, musically he's just going to look fucking shinier, but internally he doesn't really have that calibration of aura. Like look, the body is magical. As I've always said, I trust the organism. It's funny how your body will calibrate to hit home runs and grand slams when it's your last chance, when you're down to your last penny, like, you cannot simulate a flight or fight response.

There's really no emulation for this. It has to be a raw experience. That's why I've always said a man really doesn't transform until he has to. Until he's down to his last pinch.

Then the body and mind become one, like, like the Buddhists say. And this, the body will literally have you start smacking things out of the fucking park because you don't have a choice. You don't have a fucking choice. So the guy in the business meeting who's just got the fucking cavalcade of experience, he's the better horse.

He's the better horse because he's sitting there. The indentations, the impressions of life have made themselves known on his skin. It's in his, it's in the, the egg whites of his pupils. It's in his eyeballs.

You know what I mean? Like you know it when you see it. Stupidity is very rare. Stupidity is actually rarer than you guys think.

Crowds know what, what's going on? Crowds know what's up, you know what I mean? There's wisdom in a crowd. So if you take a crowd of stupid people, they might not be able to articulate what they see, but viscerally they know truth from non truth.

And that's what I'm telling you. That's why as a man, your aura is the inescapable, ineffable thing that you should be in search of. Because it's the f. It's the, it's the fountain head.

You know what I'm saying? Irand, she said the fountain head was the male ego. Nah, nah, nah, nah. It's the aura.

It's the aura. And there ain't no life hack for aura except Exposure to gruesome events. That's it? It's the name of the game?

00:32:42CALLER 3

Damn straight. Yeah. You got to be tough. There's no other speakers up here either, but I was, like, pondering about, like, if you were to put in the realm you against Marcus Aurelius, like, how you would probably obliterate him and just.

And if you were to run Rome, I'd much rather have you. That would be funny as hell.

00:33:00HOST

Yeah, man. I mean, look, it's. It's just interesting. Like, the more I publish content, the more I get DMS of people comparing me.

Like, I. I get constant comparisons and parallels and lines drawn between me and people who've made great works. And I find it ironic because most of these I've never even heard of. I've never scoured their work.

I don't know what the they're doing. But my point is, when you live life in a hardcore way and you live on the edge, you come. There's only a couple good ideas in life. You know what I'm saying?

Like, there really is. There's. Most ideas are garbage, and the best ideas float to the top. And if you can blaze your way to the top solo, and once you break through, there's really only a couple good ideas to wrestle with.

And all the greats eventually kind of come to the same conclusions on everything. It's just how it works. Yep. Anyway, bro, I appreciate you.

I'm gonna keep it moving.

00:33:54CALLER 3

All right? Letter, bro.

00:34:07HOST

Yo, Jalen.

00:34:08CALLER 7

What up, Brute? Can you hear me?

00:34:10HOST

Yeah. By the way, this thing's a battle of entropy. I started this show. My battery was at, like, 10, so we're just gonna go until this thing clips off.

Go ahead.

00:34:19CALLER 7

All right, so my main question is about the shiny object syndrome. Yeah.

00:34:26HOST

So it's the Apex philosophy. It's The Apex Philosophy 100, no doubt about it.

00:34:34CALLER 7

I just wondered your thoughts on that, because a lot of people in this space talk about sticking with one thing and doing that until you get really good at it. Right. So what are your thoughts?

00:34:46HOST

Yeah, but. So they're wrong. They're wrong because the best things that happen in life are from detours. And that's my point, is that in life, a lot of times you have to take a detour in order to find an avenue or find a perspective that you couldn't otherwise find before.

And that's how it works. It's synonymous to the pirate who fails miserably. Half of his fucking crew on the ship gets dysentery. They have dyspepsia they get wiped out by a bubonic plague.

And then the guys who are still standing come across treasure in Aladdin's cave. That's very much how life works. And the, the whole. My whole point about why chasing what's shiny is the apex philosophy is because it's the panacea for all pathologies.

If you're constantly diverted, it kind of, it's kind of an analog to my point about the two pathways to success for men are basically being incredibly horny or incredibly depressed. Because when you're horny as you have no choice but to funnel sexual energy into, into your craft, right? There's only so much you can do per day. So the rest of the time, if you're a viral male, then you're gonna be obviously channeling that energy into, into honing your craft.

And that obviously comes from sexual energy. So it's similar with the chasing, with shiny thing. You're gonna take detours, you're gonna take fucking. There's decoy, there's fucking decoys, there's fucking dead ends, there's.

There's a lot of twists and turns in life and alleyways that men are afraid to go down. But if you're constantly chasing what's shiny, you kind of become one with your body. Life is now lived within the senses. You don't have time to sit there and try to make incisions and drill holes in your personality.

There's no time for that bullshit. You got to play the hand that you have because things are moving so fucking rapidly. You know what I mean? You're, you're, you're basically exercising that rapid hand eye coordination.

You're. You're working your fast twitch muscles. You're working on the fly. You're improvising.

You know what I'm saying? It's somewhat like a cat chasing a laser. It's like a cat chasing a laser. All of your senses, you're firing on all cylinders.

And that's what I usher men to do. If all of your pistons are firing as a man and you're firing on all cylinders in a lot of ways, you're putting your conscious mind to sleep. You're putting your conscious mind to sleep. The best time to put your conscious mind to sleep is right before bed.

And men have this reversed. A lot of men as they're getting ready for bed, that's when they like to jog through their, their thoughts, and that's when they like to kind of cycle through and pan through their thoughts and kind of get prepared for the next day. I say that's bullshit. I say right before bed is when you turn everything off in your brain and let the subconscious, which has more computational power than you can possibly fathom, let that shit do the processing.

And then you wake up and your brain is actually solving problems and working out ideas and issues while you're sleeping. And that's why sometimes people wake up with a very fresh perspective. It feels almost divine, like you'll just wake up on a random morning. You'll feel like the weather changed, and you'll feel like a whole new man.

Well, that's the power of the subconscious at work. You know what I mean? In your sleep, your brain is solving catastrophic problems for you on your behalf. And so I believe that you should not interfere with that process.

You know what I mean? A lot of. A lot of things get worked out in sleep.

00:38:26CALLER 7

So. So while you're. Sorry, go ahead.

00:38:29HOST

Yeah, go ahead.

00:38:30CALLER 7

So, so the Apex philosophy, while you're awake, right? It's just to keep it moving, have as much experience as you can, you know, expose yourself to as much as you can. Is that correct?

00:38:42HOST

Well, you need to have. You need to have a lot of things coming at you because your mind, you need to basically be overwhelmed and bewildered on a daily basis. This is why I said the greatest state that a man can be in is just overwhelmed and bewildered because it's way too much for the brain to handle. There has to be a malfunction in the neocortex.

That's what I'm telling you. Because the subconscious is far more brilliant than you are. It'll work out problems. And this is why, and I do want to make clarity on this, when I talked about how the shell of the human is very thick and it can take a lot of damage.

The one thing you really don't want to fuck with too much is the diet. Because spirit is connected to gut health. And if your gut is way too up, that does have a deleterious impact on the spirit. And so you kind of get my drift, right?

Like, if you overwhelm your conscious mind in many ways, you draw forth the animal within the man. And. And I am all about that. I think the uncivilized aspect of a man is his most powerful self.

You want to talk about highest self. You want to talk about the higher angels. It's the animal within the man. It's.

It's. It supersedes. It supersedes the conscious mind. The conscious mind is very dumb, slow, and gay.

And I do want to make that clear? I don't give a fuck how, how smart you are. There is an intelligence level in man where it actually becomes a severe handicap, you know what I mean? Because the problem is really smart people are very self deceptive, very self deceptive.

And the unconscious mind is always going to strive for the optimal way for you to survive. You know? So that's, that's my point is like optimization is built into this bitch. You don't have to make piecemeal or patchwork of any of these systems.

You don't have to make a science out of approaching women. There's a way to circumvent that. There's a way to prevaricate and swerve around all that shit. And that's just to become the best at your craft.

Then you achieve all of what you're trying to achieve. You achieve it obliquely, you achieve it laterally. You know what I'm saying? It's like I always said, you can't have a goal of just wanting a Lambo and a mansion in the Alps.

That don't make sense. There's no direct path to that. Everything you want in life is lateral. You get it along the way of climbing the summit.

And as a man, you should never be dazzled by your own success. Should. If your own success is bedazzling you, you're in trouble because it means you've skipped steps and you're probably getting to a, to a very scary tipping point where you're going to piss it all away. Like, nothing that has come my way, success wise, has, has ever shocked me.

It was like, duh. I knew it was time for this.

00:41:49CALLER 7

That makes a lot of sense. Brute. Thank you.

00:41:51HOST

You got it. Bang. Yo, spence, Spencer, you're up. Yo, Zacky, what's up, bro?

What's up, man?

00:42:28CALLER 1

I wanted to get your take on personal limits of potential and if they even exist. And if they do, why? Because I think at least for a lot of the guys in this space, like most are going to have ambitions way beyond what the average person can

00:42:42HOST

even conceive of, like, would even be

00:42:44CALLER 1

comfortable for them to think about. And I just want to get your take on that. Like what you've seen in your experience of how guys end up playing out with what they're pursuing.

00:42:55HOST

Amplify that a little bit.

00:42:57CALLER 1

So like a lot of guys, I think, which is great, have really, really big, really big ambitions. And then some people might come along and call those delusions of grandeur or whatever. Like for whatever reason, they might have to feel better about whatever their, their goals are. But I want to know if you think there is actually a point where it might become delusional based on the person, like the specific person that's pursuing what they've picked.

And if so, does that point come about or does that not even exist? And is it purely about what you kind of forge into your own life and you just kind of find out what your potential is anyway?

00:43:32HOST

In hindsight, yeah, I would say that's true. It's kind of like I said last week in one of my videos. I was talking about how you basically only have to touch, you only have to reach out and touch success for just a second. Like you don't even need to hover there for long.

You just got to reach a big goal. And it's, it's so thinly veiled, you know? Know what I mean? Like snatching £300 standing up, that's just the millisecond of glory, you know what I mean?

But that's something that I've done, so that's been crystallized and there's like an overlay, it's overarched into my personality. It's interwoven into the fabric and structure of it and no one can take that away. But I think, I think what actually deters most people from achieving what they want is seeking the approval of everybody else around them. That's, that's the most difficult part because when you are blazing your own trail, there definitely is an alienation process where you actually have to become alienated from the people who are giving you advice.

Like, how do you, how do you give advice to someone who goes in on a daily basis and figures things out on their own? There comes a point where that advice just becomes completely nullified. Like you have your own, you just kind of have your own way of doing things that just kind of sets upon you. Like, how can anyone come in and, and, and wipe that away?

I think most guys are definitely, definitely looking for some sort of superintendent to guide them along the way rather than, than the original method, which is the primal method of just trial and error of self experimentation, you know what I mean? And that's, that's like the gym is a great sort of fundamental. Like the purpose of the gym in my eyes is just to become a behemoth, like to push yourself to a state of exhaustion and fatigue where you're sort of just kind of have a flat expression on your face. And that's, that's what's always worked for me.

Like, for me the high of the gym was never the physique, it was never even particularly the strength. It was just beating myself up to a point where you're kind of in a stupefied, despondent state of being, where when you exit that gym you're just so tired that the subconscious just takes over. And I think that a lot of these battlegrounds, like the purpose of that is just to constantly jade yourself. Like you're just exposing yourself to so much overwhelming data and information that you don't even want to process it.

You kind of become dumb. You kind of become dumb. And that is the best way to go through life is kind of in a dumb numb state. And that's what, that's where all the miracles happen.

00:46:19CALLER 1

That makes sense. So when you were on your journeys, like in, would you say you were like, you weren't overly anticipatory about the future, you were just kind of like day to day, how much can I push it today? Trial and error kind of thing. Because I think for a lot of guys when they, they have massive goals, the objective, like everyone says, like obviously like fall in love with the process, all that stuff.

But I think that kind of doesn't make too much sense if you have, because you're doing this stuff for the goals in the end in the first place, right? Like, you do want to get to that final achieved outcome. So how do you approach it that way? Like, do you kind of stop obsessing over the outcome because obviously you want to, you want to make it happen and fall in love.

In love or not in love, but like in alignment with the day to day. Just start with the process. Like how did you approach that?

00:47:02HOST

Exactly. It's kind of like I think men, like as I'm sitting here and as I'm just kind of reflecting on it, like you, you as a man, you, you. The really, the only solace you really have is in your own strength. It's really like the only, the only self gratifying mechanism, the only tool that a man really has to cope with is just knowing how tough and how strong he is deep down.

Not on a physical level, but on a metaphysical level. Like the things that you've done, the things that you've seen, the things that you've withstood, that's where your confidence kind of beams from. And so when I talk about a man being in that resting pose and kind of emanating that energy, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about it coming from just touching the top of the summit just for a split second and then coming back down.

I mean, the weird thing about life is that the highest of highs cannot be. They're not exciting unless you've actually been dragged through the pits of hell. Like most of your year, most of your calendar year should be relatively harrowing. It should be.

You should be struggling, I would say. And the golden moments, they don't last very long. They're not supposed to, but they're supposed to be extracted. Like the juice is supposed to be squeezed at maximum.

The best moments of your life are a blur. They're just a very, very quick little magnesium light in the sky for just a split second. And what makes those moments worth it is all the hell and all the dues that you paid along the way. I truly believe that, like, it's.

It's not natural, it's not normal for a man to be in a constant state of euphoria. And in the highs, there's something. Something fundamentally went very wrong there. If that's the case.

00:48:56CALLER 1

Yeah, it makes complete sense. I get that in it right now. Yeah. Thank you.

00:49:02HOST

Yep.

00:49:08CALLER 4

Yo, can you hear me?

00:49:10HOST

Yo. Yep.

00:49:12CALLER 4

All right. So talking about following from your peak or falling from your peak at. A few years ago, I hit 500k on tick tock. Just running up the finance wave, of course, crypto in 2020 and now with TikTok shop, I'm not sure if you're aware, I'm trying to get back and just start stacking cash.

I think I self sabotaged my way from that peak. And you were talking about how when you were running up crypto and you had wallets across seas without kyc, you just let it all burn. And I'm wondering if I should start fresh or try to relive that. And because I know deep down that I can re eminent recreate that success.

And I just want your take on that.

00:49:55HOST

Recreate that success using the same method.

00:49:57CALLER 4

Not necessarily. Guess I guess recreating myself because I'm only 17, I have so much ahead.

00:50:05HOST

Yeah. So look, as. As men, I think. I think the fundamental thing that men really struggle with is men do not know how to fix one element of their life.

And that's why I think women are the best barometer. Women ultimately are the best gauge for a man because if you end up with like the wrong girl, for example, that's just a symptom that your whole life is up. Which is why I said when a man is with the wrong woman, he will bomb every. He will carpet bomb every part of his life until there's nothing left.

Until there's a dithering. Because once that woman walks away, the then a man can truly rebirth and reconstruct himself from the ashes. Men are terrible at just fixing one aspect that's broken of their life. And it's very intuitive.

If a man senses that something's off within himself, he has a natural inclination to just want to nuke everything and start over. You know what I mean? It's like fum. It's like fumigation.

It's like pest control. You fumigate the entire house. It's like napalming an ant farm. You know what I mean?

Like, you don't have to use napalm to kill an ant farm. But overkill seems to be the successful method for a lot of men who are stuck and struggling. And that's just what I've witnessed. So the woman, like having a bad woman, having a bad anything is usually a symptom of a larger problem.

And it's kind of like chemotherapy. Like you just. Men like to apply radiation to everything in order to kill everything down to the bone. You got to nuke those cells and then start over.

Like, I don't, I don't. I've never really seen men be able to troubleshoot on like a piece by piece basis.

00:51:50CALLER 4

Yeah, absolutely.

00:51:51HOST

And so I think you're going through that where like you're sensing something's off and so you're talking about recreating yourself. That usually comes. That's usually at loggerheads with someone who wants to fucking start completely fresh. But the beauty of it is, is like I talked about, a lot of these experiences get.

Do get embroidered in the cor. And those don't go. Those don't go away. So materially you can start on a fresh plane.

But you do have that wisdom and experience. Which is why I said as you. As life gets. Look, this is what I believe.

I think as a man, as you get older, your life should be getting more complex, not easier. Things should be getting more baroque. Things should be getting more baroque as you get older because you have that wisdom to fall back on. It's like one of my posts that I did.

I've been an athlete for 20 years. I'm to a point now where I could truly eat pizza probably every day for six months, not lift, not touch a weight. And I'll still probably look like Hercules because that's who I am now. That's who I am now.

I am an athlete. So if I stop doing that, it's still who I am. But that doesn't work in reverse. If a goes to the gym for six months and then stops, he's not going to look like an athlete in a month from now.

Yeah. And so a lot of. A lot of this is just foundational. A lot of this is just foundational.

I think that's what the 20s is for, man. The 20s is about just securing that foundation because you can really do all the hardcore voyaging and exploring as you get older. You could take bigger risks, you could take more shots. Everyone thinks you can take it when you're young.

I think it's the opposite. I think once you have that foundation, you have a lot more latitude, you have a lot more rope to fuck with.

00:53:36CALLER 4

Yeah, for sure. I feel like the falling from your peak, would you say it also plays into the ego because you just know that it's somewhere within you that you can reach that and you can almost recreate it just because, you know, you've proven to yourself almost that you're capable.

00:53:53HOST

Yeah, you can just turn the jets on at any time. Like, you can flip. You can flip that switch and turn it on. And that.

That's the interesting thing about life is, like, guys will go through a malaise. Guys will go through a foggy, hazy period of their life where they really are sort of demotivated. And I think this happens to talented people because the timing just doesn't feel right. There's something in them that just doesn't want to, you know, march forward stridently to sort of tackle these problems.

And then one morning you wake up and I have a feeling this is a subconscious mechanism where, like I said, the air, there's something in the air that just feels different. And then you go and hack and slash every problem in your way and you. And you knock it all out in 24 hours and. And now you're back on the saddle, cruising again.

And so it's like. And that. That happens to people who are obsessive on. On one particular monolithic mission.

Like I said, like, you can go through a five month drought where you're just absolutely swinging and missing left and right and you're still. Your spirit is still intact and everyone's looking at you like, how could you possibly be living in these conditions? It's like, because you just know one day you're going to wake up and just fucking tackle everything.

00:55:02CALLER 4

Absolutely. All right, thank you for the talk. Thank you, bro.

00:55:21HOST

Hammond, Alex, you're up. Come on, fellas. Zuzu. Zuzu, you're live.

All right. Third time's a charm. Bounce.

00:56:27CALLER 5

Hey, what's up, Brute?

00:56:29CALLER 4

Hello?

00:56:30HOST

What's up, man? I'm here. Yo. Fire away, Dog.

You gotta be kidding me.

00:56:49CALLER 5

Yo, can you hear me?

00:56:51HOST

Yes, yes.

00:56:52CALLER 5

Hi, Roots.

00:56:52HOST

Sorry about that. Let's go. Keep it rolling.

00:56:54CALLER 5

Yeah, thanks for having me on. I've got a question. So how. How important do you think it is as a man to purposely and essentially sort of burn bridges and.

And up on purpose? Whether it's in your life for your job, or just trying new things, especially in your early 20s,

00:57:18HOST

it's the most important part to do it. I mean, look, there's. There is a. There's a method that I think is tried and tested, and that's that in your 20s, you can do this very easily, where you're moving so quickly, your pace is so abrupt, that effectively, like, even when it comes to dates, dating, you can be moving so rapidly that you basically give people an opportunity to hop on the caboose on your train.

And your train's moving so quickly that if. If they. If someone misses a meeting with you, they're left in the dust. You know what I'm saying?

I did this for, like, 10 years. I did this for, like, 10 years. I would ambush someone on the fly and be like, yo, meet me at X time at X location. And if they weren't there, there was no rescheduling.

I'm just. I'm plowing forward. And that's actually a fucking fantastic fucking dating strategy because you'll end up with the most loyal writers on earth. Like that.

Like, I would just spring it on. I would just spring it on someone and be like, hey, meet me here. If you ain't meeting me here, you are completely fucking dusted, and I ain't looking back. And it would just be fucking.

It would be totally, totally haphazard. It would be hapless, the way I would spring it on them. And then that's how you really do find the people that are rocking with you. You know what I mean?

Like, there's just no looking over your shoulder, you know? Some of the best advice. I'll tell you this, some of the best advice. There's an adage for people that have vertigo, people that are climbing heights, that they tell you, don't look down.

Right when you're climbing, never look down. Well, that's fucking fantastic life advice. Like, there's times where things are going so wrong on your journey that if you look down for just a split second or look over your shoulder, you're going to be so fucking petrified that you'll freeze in place. And like, if you want to actually get things done and correct history, because remember, the past is malleable.

The past is interchangeable. Depending on what you're doing now. There is ways to salvage history and rewrite it in your favor. But you can't look down and you can't look over your shoulder.

It's too terrifying. You know what I mean? Sometimes you're just so high up you got no choice but to just keep fucking trucking. Which goes back to my parable about me letting my spoilage.

You know, having high spoilage is really one of the biggest indicators of success for a man. Like, there's gonna be a lot of mistakes, but I think a lot of guys don't understand that mistakes are big leverage. There's a lot of leverage and a lot of big levers and pulley systems that you can put in place from making big fuck ups. Because you can draw attention to a problem and your entire body will force itself to tackle that.

Does that make sense? I don't think people understand the power of a big fuck up. Power of a big fuck up allows you to sort of redouble your efforts and, and actually fucking not only correct the mistake, but way overshoot it. Way overshoot it and make it better than it ever would have been had you not committed that up or that transgression.

This is very common. Very common.

01:00:35CALLER 5

Yeah, that makes sense. Because the thing is right for me when I, when I think about these things, it's. I always perform the best when I'm under pressure or loads of things are up, whether my car is broken or this and that. And in that week, I'll perform the best I'll ever have.

Whether it's at the gym, whether it's at life, on my job. And I almost feel like I'm always chasing that feeling to just keep up, to keep making mistakes, to keep burning bridges. And would you say that's the right thing to do?

01:01:08HOST

I mean, yeah, but the burning bridges thing will just happen kind of naturally. Like if your goals are lofty enough, there's. You're gonna be incinerating things by mistake along the way. But the beauty of that is, like I told you before, the story's not over yet.

The story is never really hard coded. So you can always not only correct a mistake, but I mean, dude, redemption is one of the most beautiful aspects of life. You know what I mean? I mean, men live for redemption.

Men live to redeem themselves. It's one of the most powerful forces on earth. And so if you've made a lot of mistakes, you know, I'm the first to raise my hand. I've made more mistakes than almost anybody that I know in my life.

However, my ability to move forward and to correct those mistakes is unparalleled. It might take me two years to do it, might take me a year to do it, but eventually it's going to get done. Eventually it's going to get done. And that's.

That's just the bottom line. And if you know that and you're steadfast in that, then you understand that you really can't make a mistake.

01:02:16CALLER 5

That's. That's perfect, man. Yeah, thanks for that. Cheers, Brute.

Thanks for having me.

01:02:23HOST

Yeah, cheers. Yo, bella. Balal. Come on, man.

Can't come. Can't come up here with stage fright like this.

01:02:52CALLER 6

Oh, my bad, bro. How you been, man?

01:02:55HOST

Let's go. How you going? Let's go.

01:02:57CALLER 6

Phenomenal. Earlier, bro. Bounce was on here and he said, how important is it to your up in order to kind of let it keep going?

01:03:07HOST

Right.

01:03:08CALLER 6

My question is, doesn't that kind of happen on the way itself? You just. If you're just living hard enough, doesn't it just kind of happen on its own? Isn't everything just kind of breaking apart, getting up on its own?

01:03:21HOST

Yeah, of course. I mean, look, men are deconstructionists at heart. That's what we are. We understand.

Men only understand life when things break. Yeah, understand. And this. This is true for hearts, psyches, mechanisms.

Men really gain a. A very vast understanding of how the world works. Only when things are broken. Children have this natural proclivity.

Children will break toys. They have a natural. You know what I'm saying? Like, it kind of goes back to the Thomas Hobbs, John Locke dichotomy.

Man is man born good or bad? I mean, look, there's. There's a case to be made that men are born bad and are learned and learned to be good children. If you put a insect in front of them, their natural urge is to make a fist and smash it to pieces.

And it's only through parenting and guidance that they're told that's not the way of going about things. So we're naturally wired to smash things apart, to understand the inner workings. That's just how nature works. And especially for men, that is the masculine imperative.

You only understand how the heart beats and ticks. Once it gets, you know, broken, once it gets lambasted, it's the Only way you understand the heart and in these. These emotions and these mechanisms.

01:04:36CALLER 3

No.

01:04:37CALLER 6

Very well said.

01:04:38HOST

It's through. It's through deconstruction.

01:04:44CALLER 6

Is there ever a level or a point where it's too much deconstruction? How do you manage to get a hold of that?

01:04:55HOST

Yeah, I mean, of course. I mean, that's why you gotta have wins under your belt. I mean, it's important. That's why I'm saying, like, along the way of these lofty goals, you're definitely.

As a byproduct of attacking lofty goals, you're definitely gonna hit some big hits. Along the way. You're going to. You're gonna pick up a broad.

You're gonna find yourself in a fancy car, but it's just gonna be an oops kind of aha moment. Right? And you can't even hold on to that for too long. You know what I mean?

There does have to be this sort of earthly detachment to success. Dude. Winning. Winning is an immaterial thing in a lot of ways.

01:05:36CALLER 6

No doubt.

01:05:37HOST

It's an. It's. It's an immaterial thing. It's.

It's. It's. It's sort of metaphysical. Obviously, the game never stops rotating.

The game board never stops shifting. But I just think that multitasking is kind of a feminine thing. I think that men do need to harp and dwell on pretty much one goal. One big fucking juicy goal, and then kind of everything that you want just kind of falls into place along the way is what I want to say.

Yeah, I mean, I've. I've experienced that.

01:06:12CALLER 3

No, you're right.

01:06:13HOST

I've experienced that. Look, I mean, look, dude. Nature. Nature is so powerful.

One of my most controversial opinions that I've been kind of floating out right now. I don't think parenting. I don't think parenting has near the impact that people think it does. You're kind of.

You're kind of a tour guide on a safari to a degree. You can point that. You can point things out. You can see things in the shrubbery and in the bushes and in the cut that maybe that a child can't see.

But ultimately, I do think nature prevails. I don't think you can suffocate the seeds of death. I couldn't agree more. I do.

01:06:49CALLER 6

The kid does always.

01:06:50HOST

You can. Your kid's always gonna figure it out and become who they're supposed to become. There's. There's very, very little interference.

I think people put way too much stock in parenting. And look what's interesting about the human organism is that if you're missing one of the co factors of a nuclear family, let's say you have an absent father or even an absent mother, you can reverse the roles. Nature is so clever that what it'll do is it'll implant weapons in the psyche in order to compensate for that. And obviously you've seen a lot of single parent homes.

A lot of men end up stabbing themselves with that edge. But nature does sort of fabricate this sort of Frankensteinian experiment on men who don't have the proper roles put in place. Nature will make you, it'll give you a fucking personality quirk to make up for that. And if you don't learn how to harness it, that's where people go seriously wrong.

It's almost like nature will find a way to give you a dad if you don't have one. It'll fucking implant it in your psyche one way or another. You will, your, your weapons will be sharpened, you will be given a lance with which to go forward. And it's just up to you on how you're going to use that weapon.

You're going to use it against yourself, or are you going to fucking use it to carve your legacy in stone? You know what I mean? It's a choose your own adventure. It's an ad lib that is very open for interpretation.

And it's up to the artist to orchestrate that.

01:08:30CALLER 6

Beautiful. That's the beauty of nature.

01:08:34HOST

Thank you, bro. You got it. Mr. Matt robinson.

Hello?

01:08:52CALLER 2

Yo, can you hear me?

01:08:55HOST

Yep.

01:08:55CALLER 2

Yeah. Hey, bro. So my question is that. So currently I'm in college and when goes wrong, I don't have anyone behind me to protect me.

I know it sounds, you know, retarded to depend on someone, but, you know, everybody has brothers, everybody has people to, you know, look behind them when shit goes wrong. When you don't have that, how do you build that up or what do you do exactly? What do you think about it?

01:09:29HOST

Well, the first question is, why don't you have that? Why don't you have a support system? Like, how did you get there? I mean, I don't know.

01:09:42CALLER 2

It's, you know, I live in college, right. And it's, people are totally different here. And like, you know, I'm just focused on, know, hustling, making money and like that. And probably they don't relate to me that much.

I mean, I, I do have good friends, I do have amazing friends. But these are not the people that, you know, when goes wrong. They don't they're not gonna come and protect me or some like that. I know it sounds like.

Sounds weird to depend on someone, but, you know, it's just a thing I've been thinking about these past few days. That I don't have a, you know, good brotherhood with anyone.