Warning: This thread is one part sociological theory with an RP perspective, one part discussion on my self improvement post-swallowing-trp, and one part discussing what to do when you hit a brick wall with your self improvement or red pill journey. If you're wondering why you should listen to anything some 18 year old college student has to say, i'll tell you why: I'm from the internet.

I've split my own self improvement stories, successes, failures, and experiences into five separate parts: Clothing and style, women and sex, fitness and health, social and financial, and "other". If you're only interested in one of those, feel free to skip ahead. They're marked.

There is no TLDR for this thread. You may get to the end and feel like it was a waste of time. I highly doubt it though, as I'm fucking awesome. Don't bother asking for a TLDR because I won't write one.

Part one: So you're improving? Well why the fuck should I care?

So as many of you know, several months ago I made a thread about how my life was fucked and I was about to give up and end it. If you haven't read that thread, you should aware yourself. It took a lot of chutzpah to write and I think I did a bangup job portraying not only how fucked up my life was, but how easy it is to fix a fucked up life if you approach it in the right way.

There comes a part in every man's life where he has to put himself to the test. Against all odds, against all reason and logic, and against the warm embrace of low expectations and security in mediocrity; he must challenge himself.

For me, that moment was when I made the first thread on my previous 'red pill' pseudonym, 'beiberfan1995'. A lot of you sympathized with my upbringing. I spoke about being emotionally castrated by Lesbians who, with respect to the fact that they also had bad upbringings, I will only dub as plain bad people.

I believe in life there are three schools of thought.

One where you believe external factors such as society are what shape your life. You generally believe that there are bigger factors in play in your life than you yourself

One where you refute the idea that society plays any role in your life. You think you are the one to shape society, the individual that can make the difference, whether delusion or truth.

And lastly, the belief that it's pretty much impossible to have any impact on your life or society. You may live life on autopilot and just live to see the next day. You may wish you had the moments of clarity you felt as a child or a teenager. You feel as though you were dealt a deck of cards and that's just what you get and you should make the best of it. Maybe you bought the 2 kids and an aging wife and a white picket fence delusion, or maybe you went socially FA and are struggling with a resentment but you don't know where to aim it?

Here's the truth: Together, they're all correct. Society will impact your life and you can't be held accountable for everything. You're also still responsible for the things that happen to you, even if you have no control over them. Doesn't life suck? And finally, yes, a vast majority of people end up making zero impact on everything, or in other words: they do nothing with their lives. They live, they consume, they die, and leave no legacy behind aside from an uglier crotch spawn with an even worse chance at success.

With that said: How do you want to live your life. The real truth is that by this point you should be seeing life as a journey, an adventure, an experience. Every decision you make or action you take sets you in a different path. Now when you're on your journey, do you want to be going fast and hard? Do you want to take those risks and leap those fences and smash those walls and built your legacy? Do you want to look back every year and see that you've fucked more women, made more money, lifted more weights, eaten better food, seen more of the world, and met better people than the year before? Because everyone, and I mean just about everyone sure as fuck does. For the most part.

You might wonder then; how come we all have entirely different approaches to success? To this journey of life? Why are some people pragmatic? Some risk taking? Some people adventurous, some reserved? Some build a career only to see it crumble and some find a passion that doesn't pay them and end up broke and lost. You might wonder how that athletic jock rationalizes getting poor grades in exchange for strong muscles. You might wonder why that shy girl refuses to wear makeup or short skirts or tight clothing, even though it would literally make her day-to-day experience completely different with the amount of validation and attention she'd receive. You probably spend hours a day questioning not only your own motives, experiences, decisions and ideas - but other peoples' as well!

I'll clue you in on the ultimate truth: It just doesn't matter.

If you truly want to find success on this journey called life, you need to STOP living for next year. Self improvement literally comes down to being a better man today than you were yesterday, so why is everything about the future?

Here's the fucking reality. When you focus on the future with your self improvement, when your journey is about tomorrow and not today, you become complacent. You will procrastinate. You will forgive yourself for today's mistakes only to make them again tomorrow. You will improve in mediocre baby-steps' only to be satisfied because your life is slightly less shit than it was yesterday.

Every single person wants to reach their zenith. To break through and become rich, (in)famous, incredible, strong, idolized, worshipped, attractive, or incredibly intelligent. Yet few, and I mean so few that I could get away with saying "none of us" actually want to work for it.

After a lot of contemplation, I've decided it's about time I started working for it - and if you're still reading, I think you've decided you should too. It's human nature to want more no matter what you have. But do you deserve it? If so, it's time to put the pedal on the gas and prove it.

Part two: Self improvement of an 18 year old college student. My successes, failures, and things I've learned.