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Lessons in Politics, Machiavellian strategies, and navigating Power Dynamics. | Read Long Form Articles

Akhand Bharat शामिल हुए Aralık 2022
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How to become a high value man by end of 2025. Before December comes, this thread will guide you to prepare yourself in identifying your values, prioritising them in a hierarchical structure, orient yourself on a path of least resistance and start making sacrifices to obtain them, transforming you into a man of value. Write down your values. For a man, your apex value should be abundance. You must attain it, or at least be on a path that will lead to its attainment. If you are too distracted in your pursuit of women and indulgences, stop reading here. What does it mean to attain your apex value on a path of least resistance? It means you will orient yourself in a strategic manner that will lessen as many obstacles in your way of attaining your value. Your choices & time allocation will be devoted to this value. This means to count your moves. To make moves in the form of sacrifices, strictly related to your apex value. Moves that negotiate with the future and force your apex value to come to you. Count each one, & stay on the path. You will achieve abundance in two ways; 1. Leverage Competence 2. Begin your own start up To leverage competence, you will first need to take stock of your current job description, pinpoint what you’re expected to do & what you get paid for. Then, you will seek to deliver your job description at an exceptional level. You will leave no room for negligence or incompetence. You will not worry about recognition, and aim to perfect what you are required to do. When ready, you will leverage your perfection, to uptake more responsibility+authority, not money. You will negotiate that you currently do ABC for X amount, but you are willing to do ABCDE for 2 months, and if you deliver, you will rightfully request positional ascendency. When you become exceptional in your line of work, you create specific-knowledge-like asymmetry. Any asymmetry you create in your favour, can be leveraged. Exchange the value you generate easily, for the value you want. When I worked as a pharmacist, I dispensed at 30 seconds per medication, when others took 10min. I leveraged this to reduce staff, then leveraged to implement systems for cost efficiency, which made me a manager, & leveraged for corporate. Study the scenario, find the leverage. While you exercise this, you will record, print weekly reports of every sale, every profit, every satisfied customer under your name and construct an impeccable CV. So when the bosses don’t play nice, you can leverage this as a threat. If you are successful in your promotion, repeat the process. Find leverage in your new found responsibilities. You are not pursuing more money. You are pursuing more responsibility and authority. Money will come after. Leverage competence for positional power. Your competence in your job should be part of the system. You do not want your competence to self-automate in your absence. You want to become so good at what you do, that the business falls apart without you. Generate reliance to cement your leverage. Avoid redundancy. Option 2 is start up. If you want to start your own business, in my opinion it is a brutal path to take. Have a stable job before taking the risk in going for a startup. You must maintain a stable income stream for this option. You are not an entrepreneur if you are not making weekly progress. If you want to start your own business, you must have a clear deadline for weekly action & progress. Investors check progress, worth ethic & personality before investing. Your journey to abundance will kill off so many undesirable parts of you, that you will inevitably transform who you are. You’ll be forced to become strategic, think ahead, be cunning and ambitious. A force to contend with. If you don’t become disagreeable in your quest for abundance, you are not devoting enough time for your apex value: -you come first -competitive -less social -assertive -insubordinate -value driven -time conscious unconcerned for anything petty & frivolous. These qualities developed as a side effect in your path to abundance, are the traits that make you attractive. Combine this with your capacity to provide, your accountability & competence, it makes you a high value man. Your aim before December 1. Acknowledge apex value as abundance 2. Pinpoint the position you are seeking. 3. Pinpoint your path towards it 4. Pinpoint your job description 4. Write down how to excel in it 5. Plan on how you’ll leverage it once excelled By 2024, you should have improved your current position and developed, -Responsibility -Confidence -Authority -Credibility -Leadership -Disagreeableness Don’t stop. You’re set to dominate 2024. The lesson in this article is to understand leverage. When you become exceptionally competent in one domain, you can leverage it on the dominance hierarchy and ultimately increase your value. This lesson can be applied to many contexts.
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The real danger of repeated compromise is not the one decision. It is the identity that forms around it. Every time you betray your own standard for relief, approval, or ease, you rehearse a smaller self, and after enough repetitions you no longer need defeat because you become it,
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Status is not only what you own, earn, or display. It is what your behavior announces under pressure. The man who stays calm, keeps standards, and does not sell himself cheaply tells the room something money cannot. He can be trusted with power because he is not ruled by need.
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Your life is shaped less by your intentions than by your thresholds. What you tolerate in friends, in work, in love, and in yourself quietly becomes your standard. A weak boundary does not stay local. It spreads until your whole life starts reflecting what you failed to reject.
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People say they value honesty, but what they usually reward is convenience. Tell the truth in a way that costs them nothing and they praise your courage. Tell the truth that forces adjustment, accountability, or loss, and suddenly your tone becomes the real problem.
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You become harder to manipulate when you understand the emotional states that make you careless. Loneliness makes you attach too fast, praise makes you trust too quickly, and shame makes you accept less than you should, self-awareness is not softness but a form of protection.
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Some people do not hate your success because it harms them. They hate it because it forces them to face their own avoidance, their own drift, and the gap between what they say they want and how they actually live, and that kind of mirror creates quiet resentment very fast.
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The world will often test your standards before it respects them. It will offer you easy pleasure, weak company, cheap attention, and convenient excuses just to see what you will trade for comfort, and your future is shaped by whatever you prove willing to accept again and again.
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Your greatest enemy is not always another person. Very often it is the softer voice inside you that asks for comfort instead of growth, distraction instead of focus, and relief instead of discipline, and it does this so often that weakness begins to feel reasonable and deserved.
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You do not lose yourself in one dramatic moment. You lose yourself slowly by saying yes when you mean no, by staying where you are not respected, and by repeating small acts of self-betrayal until the false life feels normal and the real one feels very far away.
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You do not need to become heartless. You need to become harder to move. There is a difference. A man ruled by pity, flattery, loneliness, or guilt becomes easy to steer by anyone who can press the right emotion. Self-command keeps your compassion from being exploited.
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Your reputation is built twice. First by what you do. Then by how consistently you do it when attention disappears. People trust patterns, not performances. One disciplined month says more than a year of declarations. Reliability is how private character becomes public power.
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Real ambition is brutal because it leaves no room for self-deception. You either used the day or you wasted part of your life. You either moved toward your standard or away from it. Time does not care about your excuses. It only records whether you honored your potential or not.
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You need a higher standard for what you allow from yourself. Most people already know the behaviors ruining them. They just keep granting temporary mercy to the part that wants ease. Self-respect begins where self-excusing finally becomes intolerable.
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People reveal their nature most clearly when they think they are hidden by context. Watch how they behave when power protects them, when envy tempts them, when convenience excuses them, when nobody can punish them. Character is not built there. It is exposed there for all to see.
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The man who cannot be alone will always be easy to manipulate. Loneliness makes bad company feel meaningful. Flattery feels like loyalty. Attention feels like love. Learn to sit with your own mind, and half the traps that once owned you stop looking like opportunities.
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Every weakness leaves a social scent. Neediness. Bitterness. Poor self-control. People may not say it, but they feel it instantly. Your inner disorder is never fully private. The world reads your face, your timing, your tone, and judges the war you are losing inside yourself.
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People test you before they trust you. Not always with insults. Sometimes with disrespect disguised as jokes, delays, half-promises, or neglect. Every small moment asks the same question: do you even believe in your own value? Your answer is hidden in what you tolerate daily.
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Revenge seduces weak men because it feels like strength without requiring growth. But the enemy does not fear your anger. He fears your discipline, your indifference, your rise. Nothing unsettles people more than the version of you that no longer needs them to suffer.
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You keep calling it love when it is really hunger. Hunger makes you chase, overshare, perform, and abandon your standards for relief. Love deepens you. Hunger degrades you. The moment you can tell the difference, your whole life stops being negotiable at the root not the surface.
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Never confuse motion with strategy. A lot of men are simply reacting faster, not thinking deeper. Real advantage comes from patience, timing, and forcing others into mistakes they created themselves. You do not win by always striking first. You win by striking when it costs most.
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