From the Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: Daily Notes: The Competition of Life.
One of the most powerful things you can do as a young man is sit back and realise how ruthlessly competitive the world is.
We are taught that life is not a competition. By our parents. By our teachers. By society. But the opposite is the truth.
Take some time out to observe nature, people and life itself. Spend a weekend wandering through a forest and studying the brutality of nature. Insects killing eachother. Wasps fucking shit up. Animal fighting over food to survive.
Human life is no different.
We are just more civilised about how we engage in combat.
Now it is a fight for power. Control over other human beings. Access to resources. Women. Nice things and a good lifestyle.
What YOU want, everyone else wants.
So what makes you special?
You need to understand that all the things you obssess about daily and imagine, other men are imagining also.
The jungle isn’t gone. It’s just been replaced by concrete, skyscrapers and a digital world.
Competition is everywhere, in everything.
Go onto the internet and businesses are competing for your attention.
Approach a beautiful woman and you are competing with all the other men who have approached her.
Start a business and you are competing with everyone else who is trying to do the same thing.
I firmly believe as I get older, that the ability to see reality exactly as it is and deal with it exactly as it is….is THE most important ability a man can have.
You need to be able to see life for what it is.
Not what you have been told it is because most of the shit inside your mind is not true, it is a warped fantasy of the world planted in you by society.
Sometimes life is fucked. It’s hard. Things suck. Especially when you are starting out.
Women ignore you. You can’t afford to do what you want. You’re dependent on some shit job you hate. This is the game as a young man, you have to build everything from the ground up and make smart moves.
Improve skills. Get stronger and more jacked in the gym. Learn. Expand your network. Get known by older and more successful men. Resist all the distractions and comforts that the modern world wants you to be dependent on.
This is hard, but it’s not as hard as living a meaningless life where you have zero fucking purpose or anything worthwhile to your name.
So what do you do?
What does a young man who is just starting out, actually do?
Here is what I think you should do if you are starting at the bottom:
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Get in the gym and lift weights. Build a body that can be respected by yourself and by other men. You need to train, you need to have muscle and be strong. Not only will you look better but you will be percieved by society as better.
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Read books. But not just any books. Read the best books out there that provide genuinely unique insights into how the world works. Millionaire fastlane by MJ Demarco. Shortness of Life by Seneca. 50th law by Robert Greene. Read stuff that makes you think and starts to stimulate your mind to think bigger.
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Build skills. Doesn’t matter what. Just start making yourself valuable by acquiring and building valuable skills that can get you paid. Sales is where I recommend you start because it makes everything else easier.
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Have one good girl who takes the pressure off and helps you get shit done. You don’t want a harem of women as a young man unless you have the maturity and mind to handle it. One girl is good when you are starting out. Get your basic needs met.
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