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

Akhand Bharat Katılım 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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If you want confidence, build evidence in private. Keep promises when nobody checks, finish what you said you would finish, correct what you keep avoiding, and show up when your mood changes. Confidence is memory of self-respect repeated enough times.
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Never let your emotions write checks your future has to pay. One angry message, one needy explanation, one public reaction, one impulsive confession can create a version of you that outlives the mood. Self-control is not repression. It is reputation management in real time.
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If you want respect, stop trying to look impressive and start becoming useful under pressure. Solve the problem, carry the weight, reduce confusion, and make life easier for the people who depend on you. The man who consistently creates order becomes valuable without needing to announce it.
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If you cannot be alone you become food for anyone who offers belonging. You join weak groups, return to bad love, tolerate poor treatment, and mistake proximity for connection, because silence feels like rejection when you have never built a self strong enough to inhabit.
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Some people call themselves loyal when they are merely dependent. They stayed because leaving required courage, options, money, identity, or self-respect they did not yet have. Real loyalty begins only when escape is possible and devotion is still chosen.
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A dangerous man does not rush to expose people. He lets time do it. A mask gets heavy. A lie needs maintenance. A hidden motive leaks through repetition. Character is patient. It reveals itself when performance gets tired.
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The most addictive currency in human life is recognition. Some people will betray dignity, waste years, ruin love, and sabotage their own growth just to keep receiving attention from the same people who quietly make them feel small.
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A loser does not become a loser in one decision. He becomes one by protecting the emotional rewards of losing. Sympathy, excuses, lowered expectations, avoidance of pressure, moral superiority over people who try harder. Failure becomes comfortable when it starts paying you in psychological benefits.
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Machiavellian thinking is not “being evil.” It is understanding that morality, image, desire, fear, status, guilt, and timing all move people before logic does. The naive man argues with what people say. The sharper man studies what their position requires them to protect.
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There is a point where reading more becomes cowardice. Another book, another thread, another philosophy, another model, another guru. The mind keeps asking for maps because the body does not want the humiliation of walking badly in public before it learns to move well.
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A man in scarcity does not simply lack money, women, status, or opportunity. Scarcity is the spiritual posture of clinging. He clings to being chosen, being understood, being forgiven, being included. Abundance begins when he stops treating access to other people as proof he exists
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If you want confidence, stop aiming to avoid failure. Aim to recover fast. Take the hit, learn the lesson, adjust, repeat. The man who can bounce back becomes fearless over time, because he trusts his ability to rebuild even when things go wrong.
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Game theory explains why emotional restraint amplifies perceived authority. The person who remains composed while others become reactive appears psychologically larger because he demonstrates control over internal impulses. Humans instinctively associate self-control with competence, discipline, and hidden capability.
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Game theory explains why people become defensive when you improve yourself visibly. Your growth changes the comparison environment around them. It removes comforting assumptions about what is possible with discipline. Many criticisms directed at ambitious people are actually emotional attempts to restore psychological equilibrium.
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If you want confidence, stop aiming to avoid failure. Aim to recover fast. Take the hit, learn the lesson, adjust, repeat. The man who can bounce back becomes fearless over time, because he trusts his ability to rebuild even when things go wrong.
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No one is as dangerous as the calm man. He doesn’t react, he calculates. He studies your anger, measures your weakness, and waits for the perfect moment to strike. While you’re burning energy proving a point, he’s already positioned to win without saying a word.
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Most people do not hate you, they hate how your existence makes them feel about their own choices. Your discipline triggers their guilt. Your progress triggers their envy. Your standards trigger their insecurity. Do not argue with them, and do not shrink for them.
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When you become competent, you gain the most underrated privilege: you stop rushing. Rushing is what insecure men do to prove they matter. Competence lets you move slowly, choose better, and stay calm while others panic. The room feels that calm and reads it as authority, because it usually is.
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A silent stare is stronger than a clever comeback when someone is disrespectful. Arguments drag you down to their level and smear your image in public. One short line like “that was not necessary,” then revoke attention. Make it awkward. Awkward teaches faster than anger.
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Confidence is built by reducing choices. Too many options create negotiation, and negotiation creates delay, and delay creates self-disgust. Structure your day, remove the easy exits, and make the work automatic.
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