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Dealing with Sedation

Dealing with Sedation

Everything you've read up to this point about the Red Pill or Male Self-Improvement won't make a damn bit of difference until you can get rid of your Sedations.

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Apr 17, 2025
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I get a lot of correspondence regarding Alpha Mindset. This distorted obsession with “mindset” is the product of commercial Red Pill ‘Messiahs’ over the past 7 years. But before we can hit the core concepts, there’s one overriding issue we need to cover – Sedations that retard you from personal growth. We're going to get down into the core principles.

What is Alpha? What is a Mindset?

What, what is confidence? Women always say they want a confident man. How do I get confidence?

Alpha Mindset? What even is a Mindset? What determines Mindset?

What are the conditions that define “Alpha?” How do I contextualize Alpha?

Sociosexual Hierarchies are the source of a lot of confusion associated with Alpha today. Everybody wants to be an Alpha (or a Sigma, just an anti-social Alpha). Whatever Alpha is, is whatever the Red Pill messiah happens to be. If you don't fit that image, then you're not an Alpha. You’re a dweeb.

We’ll talk about those definitions, but I’ve got to give you the preamble here. What I'm starting with is a necessary beginning to understanding Mental Point of Origin and Mindset. What even is a Mindset? Mindset tends to be mysterious to guys. Success-Porn gurus summon it when they don't know what else to say.

“Man, you just need a positive Mindset and everything will fall into place for you.”

The average guy doesn't understand the concept of Mindset, but that doesn’t matter—it doesn’t matter at all. Because…

Everything you've read up to this point about the Red Pill or Male Self-Improvement won’t make a damn bit of difference until you can get rid of your Sedations.

Anything that any ‘guru’ can teach you means fuck-all if you cannot defeat the sedative habits and addictions that hold you back from taking action. You can read all five of my books. You can watch every damn podcast I've ever done. You can read every essay I've ever written on The Rational Male. You can watch, God knows, how many hours of Red Pill content you want. Pray for however long your favorite TradPill influencer told you to pray. None of that makes any difference. You will not change until you can get past your Sedations.

What is Sedation?

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