Daily Journal of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: What is Life as a Man?
It occurred to me yesterday while riding to Muay Thai training through dense traffic and the wet jungle, that life for a man is work. Just like Tude said to me last week while we smoked cigars in the bar at Segno; even after you get rich nothing changes because life for a man is still just about work.
Building your empire. Growing yourself. Getting better. Gaining more power.
Tude makes $600,000 every month through his business and is only 29 years old. He could go anywhere and do anything, but as I have come to realise also…even when you have massive freedom you cannot simply live just for pleasure. A hedonistic lifestyle will only make an ambitious man miserable. That same drive that propelled you to high levels initially will not go away and it needs to be channelled into other things or you will feel like shit.
The great majority of men seem to be able to float through life without any itching feeling that they are wasting time - their spare moments can be filled with video games, movies, porn and other useless shit that does nothing for their life. But guys like myself and Tude, we can’t do it. Free time is our worst enemy. We have to stay busy and keep building towards greatness, towards higher levels of achievement, towards the next “thing”. What he said hit me so deeply that I had to write about it today…that life for a Man is really nothing but work.
Even when you get everything, it is still just about the work. I know from personal experience that achieving a big goal only makes me feel good very briefly. Maybe for one day, and then I am immediately thinking about what is next. Modern society likes to lable this kind of behaviour as bad, and will tell you to be “content” or “grateful” - but I don’t think this is correct.
I think some men are more ambitious than others, and if you have that HUNGER inside you burning like a wild fire…then you need to accept what you are and work with it instead of trying to suppress it. If you want more then good, go get it and don’t lie to yourself that you need to be content with less than what you want. We are by nature conquerors and takers, this is the essence of Man.
A woman can be born beautiful and literally do nothing except use her beauty to marry a rich man and she is set for life. Even an average looking woman can be feminine and good at womanly duties, then marry a well off man and be set for life. Her looks and feminine nature serve her massively. But a man is born worthless and without any value, he must WORK to become something and in today’s world that something is a bar set higher than ever before. Nobody is going to give a broke and out of shape man anything, in fact he will be judged HARD by society for failing to develop any value.
You’ve really got to have it all to compete as a man in the modern world and so now only the most ambitious and ruthless men even stand a chance at reaching the peak.
In conclusion I think being incapable of sitting still and doing nothing is not a bad thing, I think it is a great strength that can propel certain men to very high levels in life. I know this because every massively successful man I speak to hates free time and loves working. If you are like this, then do not judge yourself or attempt to suppress it - work with it and channel it into building a better life.
~ Maverick Brenton
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