This community to which we belong, called the manosphere is in many ways the largest self-improvement community on earth. When I first encountered it in the early 2000s, it was known as the seduction community and was uniquely focused on one area of achievement, namely learning the skills to improve relationships with women. When I returned late 2015, I was intrigued to see that it had changed from a community that had a singular focus, to a community that had embraced a much wider mission. Part of the reason why I decided to leave many years ago, was that the community was solely focused on being perceived as a high value male, as opposed to becoming a high value male. While these may appear to be similar, the former is akin to a woman adopting all the modern tricks of the trade to take herself from a 4 to a 7, as opposed to actually putting in the work to be a true seven.

As with most in the sphere, I tend to engage in constant self-improvement with varying intensities, and I've found gap analysis to be a very useful tool for both man design and lifestyle design. A gap analysis is a tool that is utilized in business, where the present state is established in detail, for instance based on market share, organizational capabilities or overall strategy. One then identifies the desired future state, so that it is possible to identify the gap between present and desired state, so that action can be taken to reach the desired future state.

Any self-improvement journey starts with a simple "From A to B" however many make detours when enjoying these travels, some embrace the process, others the goal. One can apply a gap analysis to most aspects so long as they can be quantified reasonably well. As management guru Peter Drucker once said "What gets measured gets managed", I've assisted quite a few businesses and men in improvement efforts throughout the years and what is a virtually eternal truth is that the measuring systems are not in place to ensure progress towards the desired end-state and thus the results suffer.

The Red Pill Logic Perspective

From this perspective, all men must adopt some similar principles. I'll use a married man in his 40s, a college freshman and a recently divorced 35 year old as my examples in this post. All the three example men have to adopt an understanding of female nature as outlined by red pill philosophy, including AWALT, Hypergamy and Solipsism as these are primary drivers of the sexual market place. The married man is likely to struggle the most of the three with this perspective, as he is invested in the blue pill fantasy more than the other men. After all, in order to get married in the present social, political and economic situation one must have an irrational belief in a good outcome against the odds. The College Freshman is the second most likely to be invested in the blue pill reality, owing to his youth and idealism. The reason for being less invested than the married man is that while he has an overall investment in the blue pill mindset, it is not yet personal to him in the same manner that it will be to a married man. Perhaps the less invested is the Cluster B discard, as he has faced head on the strongest variant of AWALT that exists. As outlined in "Methods to Female Madness", cluster B women represent those women who manifest the various feminine mechanisms in their most powerful and exploitative variant.

As I've said before, normally a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, but the red pill is only fully swallowed from a kick to the testicles. This is the first-principle of self-improvement, it only happens as a result of opposition. A man who is perfectly happy will not engage in self-improvement, the need to improve is a deductive solution that acts as a means to a desired end. Human beings do not expend energy without an expectation that the expense will yield a satisfactory return. However, to ensure such a return those resources must be allocated towards the right end-goals.

The right end-goals can only be identified if one conducts the gap analysis to identify the present state, and the means available to proceed from present to desired end state. Furthermore, one must ensure that the end-state is congruent with the means to reach it.

The Gendernomics Perspective

The Gendernomics series largely deals with the economics of the mating market from supply and demand to different strategies to differentiate in the market. This is by large an extended metaphor employed to a philosophical concept, "The Sexual Market Place". The goal is to offer quantitative and anchored concepts that permit men to understand and employ the various manosphere tactics and strategies more effectively, in addition to measure their outcomes. If you are seeking to improve your relationships with women, whether that means successful long-term relationships in some variant, becoming more sexually successful, whatever that means to you, or anything in between the identification of your present state is of prime importance.

The man who is living within a marriage and comes to the red pill after years within a life of quiet desperation, seeking to improve his life with his wife, the man who is about to go to college and is still a virgin, or the 35 year old guy who just got discarded by a cluster B and sees a mating market drier than the Sahara desert, all have a present state and all have a desired future state. However, it is likely not to be quantified or documented in any meaningful manner. They may all just want "more sex", but while the married man is looking to elicit this from the woman to whom he granted a state sanctioned monopoly as his sexual provider, the College freshman is seeking this out in perhaps the most saturated mating market he will ever be within, and the recent discard is still likely spinning from the events that lead him to this point.

They all have differing present states and differing desired future states, thus their approaches are not going to be identical, not should they be. There are "one-size fits all" approaches that are likely to be useful for all men, such as getting into better shape and overhauling their mindset in general, then there are contextual approaches that only makes sense to some. For instance, the married guy should probably avoid cheating on his wife, the college guy should probably avoid getting stuck in an LTR by accident, and the former Cluster B dater should probably clean up the issues that got him into a relationship with a cluster B before entering the dating market again.

These men are all viewing this from a different market situation. The married man as mentioned is in a position where he has sold universal and binding rights with his wife to be the monopolistic supplier/receiver of sex. The College age man is entering perhaps the most saturated market he will be dealing with in his life, he is in a situation where there are many female suppliers, but also much male competition. However, his market has the benefit of excluding the upper brackets of male sexual market value for the most part. The discard, is entering a challenging market, burdened with baggage, he is entering the market while having neglected his sexual market value for a long time.

Thus, the men have different requirements and different gaps they must overcome. They all have areas where standard manosphere methodology will apply, improve their body, improve their sense of grooming and work on their game, however they all have some unique requirements as well. The married guy faces unique constraints to his game, in the form of a marriage and a history of being the dutiful beta to his wife, this perception must be changed. The College Freshman faces a market with aggressive competition, and must balance his game with his education. The Cluster B discard has baggage and mindset issues that must be worked out.

Therefore, it follows that each man must determine how to efficiently allocated his resources, both financial and in terms of time towards the maximum reward for minimum effort. This is not a contradiction of the recent "high energy" trend of the manosphere, but an observation that those who seek to run sprints as marathons and marathons as sprints will fail in both. Every endeavor must be calibrated to the needs and abilities of the person who seeks to bring it from idea to fully realized product. An interesting paradox inherent to our species appears to be that we are designed to be lazy, yet plan as if we have unlimited energy.

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