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A-Unit's Confidence Thread.

A-Unit

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There's alot of talk on what confidence is. I may have even done one before, but not to the extent and understanding I have now. Why confidence in this format?

Because, it should be available -free- to those guys not ready or willing to search online or in books. And maybe, just maybe, they'll go looking and make it a study. Because the more you study it, the more it becomes a part of you. That's why.

Sure, reading a book once gives you a cursory view of "what" it is, but it by no mean grants you "confidence" and "understanding" as you would. Read SEVERAL books on anything, and the perspectives you gain -unlocks- your own potential and understanding of it. Read on psychology, NLP, selling, investing, sports, women, sex, the body, nutrition ENOUGH, and you will BECOME it. Thoughts will flow, you'll make connections you never had before. Months, and even years will go by, and over time, you'll be amazed of how much of a pro you are at whatever you endeavored to do.

Definitions are wonderful, but -ALOT- of what I read about confidence on the boards, and in the bible (I think?) is about -external- activities and actions. It's about breathing a certain way, or a furrow of the brow, or walking with your chest out, or dressing a certain way, or maintaining eye contact, or walking slow, or not slouching, or any host of other "things" you must keep check-listed in your mind.

The sad part is, people can't do that. When you give them LOADS of technical details, it does 2 things...

1. It strips them of living, because now you're automated and lacking in your true nature.

2. It stifles the creative mind. While you're thinking you can't be living, so-to-speak. You can't be interacting with a girl, or selling, or talking, if you're focusing on a multitude of other things. The mind focuses 1 thing at a time, and in most cases, that should be what's going on, the topic @ hand, the conversation, the club, bar etc. Not YOU!!

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Confidence doesn't stem from a belief in your abilities. It doesn't stem from looks, or money, or a car, or even family, because ALL these things can be taken away, changed, altered, used against you, and so forth. All those things are EXTERNAL to what confidence truly is.

The ONLY constant in the external world, things outside the mind is CHANGE.

How many people do you know who still lead the same lives, years, after years, after years?

Millions, right? Why?

Because they are the only ones NOT to have changed. Investments came and went. Opportunities passed them by. So did friends, women, holidays, vacations, books, programs, lottery tickets, weekend, families, and so many more things. This is because the only that doesn't seem to change is the mind. Those CHANGE-LESS people have a sort of "confidence" in their mind about who they are or not. Problem is, it's wrong. It's not inline with what they want.

Confidence is KNOWING, BELIEVING, and UNDERSTANDING that your birth and creation was ON PURPOSE. That regardless of how you feel now, that no matter HOW afc or alpha you feel, YOU do have a reason for being. That your existence sends WAVES through life ALL the time in some way. You may not have been born with a bible or map of 'what to do and who you are' BUT, that is the sole purpose of your existence. Knowing this would negate your existence. You'd vanish, or combust. Each day, each second, in fact, is an opportunity to LEARN something about yourself and the world around you. Fvck what people say or think or if they laugh. Like everything else, they'll forget by tomorrow. But the point is, YOU WON'T!

See yourself as a LASER birthed for a purpose and each THING you do is a way to see if that's your purpose. Or if your purpose is to be like a chameleon, always changing what you do, but not who you are.

See, alot of you are NEGATING who you're born to be by being someone you're not. You're denying your existence by focusing on ******D success without identifying inward success.

***~In a round about way, what if you're meant to travel the world, date beautiful foreign women, and be an international businessman, but in pursuit of those goals, which suit you perfectly, you get caught up in the club/bar scene and are able to pull a few chicks. And 1 night, incredibly drunk and stupid, while fvcking your FWB you regularly call, you don't use protection, or it breaks. You don't realize it til the morning, and maybe she's on the pill or maybe she's not. In any event, abortion is against her morals and she's carrying your kid. In the end, trying to do right and knowing she'd take you to court for child support, you get a permanent job working for $15 hour. Which sounds great now, but with 2 others to support, it is only poverty level. And with that 1 mistake, your dreams and goals of purpose vanish. SURE, you might work your way around it like the tough DON JUAN you are, but for every person who is like that, 9 aren't. I personally know and have friends like, as I'm sure you do.~***

Point is, NOTHING on this board installs confidence. Not even my words. ONLY you can.

And the thing is...if you know, believe AND feel that you're purpose, you're alive for a reason, then nobody can make you feel insignificant except you. No woman can devalue your life except what a woman says. Society cannot. An employer cannot. Your family cannot. NO ONE! Only by their submission can you allow them to.

And society doesn't care for the individual, it's care for the whole, and for the few @ the top who reap the greatest gains on our work. Society was only created as a unit to progress people as a whole, and lead to greater survival for the masses. There were, and still are individuals capable of surviving without a system.

And society's lack of compassion for the individual wrecks confidence in the youth today.

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As an example, schools. Lots of schools clip their budgets to retain their sports programs, as the belief is that camraderie is built on school sports. Yet, so few kids play at the varsity level, and even fewer are the "stars" that garner the most respect. Of it all, the top athletes garner the MOST benefit from junior h.s., h.s., and college, despite the purpose of schooling to be education and learning. By virtue of society's hierarchy, those who wouldn't normally otherwise be there, receive a "free pedastal," just like the beautiful woman many of you place there also.

So while society has it's pluses, it also has it's minuses, since it seeks the progression of people as a whole and abhors individual prosperity. Yes, we might FAKELY congratulate, but normally success is looked upon with disdain, contempt, and cynicism. You even see it on this board, so as a larger view, society does it on a grand scale.

Confidence is the singular belief in your own purpose. You needn't say "I will be a doctor" because that's only a social role, and now you're value externally becomes linked internally, and yes, you're respected, but not as high as a wealthy salesperson, CEO, or the president.

Conversely, if you believe you're alive for a purpose, and you believe I am, our existence are not, I repeat NOT, hierarchical. That means, you're not better than me, and I'm not better than you. It also means that if your body is better than mine, but my car is better than your's, neither of us cares. It means what we are is purpose, and while today we have "this body, this car, this bank account, these friends, this apartment, these books, these clothes, this hair", that tomorrow we probably won't, and to judge one's self based on THAT is very very fickle. AND not self-confidence @ all.

Flip that, if you're confident of yourself BEING PURPOSE, and being BORN ON PURPOSE, then you'll gain as much value from where you are RIGHT now, and be able to develop the attitude on life that you'll do that anywhere. That's why I'm opposed to people who believe moving somewhere will change things for them. Or that a new job will change things. Or that a new car, or new clothes, or a new body. It doesn't change anything except you're environment. All you learn at that point is to keep jumping ships for the ego because you've never been satisfied with what you have, and you never will be.

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Is this long? Damn Straight. It will continue this way, because first and foremost, more guys would PROVIDE info, rather than EXTRACT it if they had CONFIDENCE. I know you guys THINK it, but I TRULY know it's not TRUE at all. Why? Because if you had confidence, and you had belief in your purpose, nothing, and I mean NOTHING would shake you. NOTHING at all. NOT A DIME.

And if you had that sort of unshakeable confidence, you know that your decisions and actions come from a place of concrete support, that you can RELY on that feeling and move forward. That your being HERE ON PURPOSE is a reason for acting to see where it leads.

What if you're the guy for that girl?
What if you're the guy for that job?
What if you're the guy who's going to revolutionize something?

This isn't about motivation, but about CONCRETE, ROCK SOLID, TITANIUM belief in PURPOSE. That you, your body as it is now, your cells, your energy, personality, character, birthdate, EVERYTHING is a reason, as logical and concrete as Science.



A-Unit
 

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Nice post as always A-Unit:up:

I have a healthy level of self confidence already but I can almost FEEL the difference between my EGO confidence and this PURPOSE confidence you speak of.....any suggestions on how we find this purpose?

How do we differentiate between purpose and ego desires...ie:ripped body,nice car/house,hot woman etc.?

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To me, most people KNOW their purpose IN themselves, but they look for society's acceptance to confirm it and move onward.

Guys get on the SoSuave/PUA path and end up losing site of what's important only to return to who they are as a better guy. Heck, I was the Golf guy in h.s. I had loads of friends, mostly golfers, liked books, stocks, and lifting. But my 1st gf thought "golf was dorky" and when I would stop lifting during golf season she thought it was "wimpy" since she was a Softball zlut. I took that to heart, when I shouldn't have.

That's what I refer to losing purpose. Guys who aren't getting laid or the girls they want, end up TOTALING overhauling themselves when they don't have to. And alot of people regret that later on in life; they things they give up for false reasons.

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Purpose as it stands RIGHT now, is that where you are is OK. Maybe you live @ home @ 25 and can't pull women easily. Or maybe you have a bad job. Or maybe a great one, but you don't love it. Maybe things are hard, or financially difficult. Does that mean you have to be happy or sad based on EXTERNAL circumstances?

Heck no!

Because that precisely is the rollercoaster that MOST people lead. I've met many people, and clients, who are happy or sad based on circumstance of their life at that point, AND THEN, they lose future opportunities but NOT remaining centered. That is the mistake.

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Take stock of who you are now.
Don't apologize for that. Alot of guys take the "i don't give a fvck attitude" too far. It isn't THAT negative. It's "this is me, I'm ok, I was made unique for a purpose." It sounds hokey, but it's true. What's the alternatives?

That you're TOTALLY imperfect and we must install the missing pieces?

Or that you were born TOTALLY fvcked up and are a complete loser and that only a SELECT few are worthy of anything in life?

Come on. That's what I see on the boards.

Remember in "Good Will Hunting" when Robin Williams said "It's not your fault." to Matt Damon ??

I feel the same thing here, just to post in each thread and say "it's ok, no matter what you do, it's ok. it's not wrong, there's no right answer." Most of the guys get so analytical so wrapped up in the successes or failures. They internalize them and personalize them as to see what their value is based on the success of "the game" and of "what type of women" they pull. It's said.

Seriously, I feel, deep down, every guy should feel OK at this very moment. Regardless of your past, or current status, because YOU are NOT THAT. You, as who you sit there right now as, are not that person. You're not a DD geek. Not a gym rat. Not any of those labels. Not a virgin. Or a PUA. Nothing.

Maybe I'm different in that I don't judge guys by who they pull or the girls they date. I have friends who were models, or date hotter chicks, and there's logical X = Y equation. It's just that way. My brother dates hot band girls, because personally, they don't connect with lots of people except muscians. He owns that market. Because he's attractive and is into music and entertainment.

Alot of guys miss the freebies they can get, alot of things will happen without explanation, life's a mystery, not totally a science.

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You live purpose and not the ego right now. This moment. Be happy as a step toward life. The future won't be made happy if today can't be happy first. Because todays' happiness are stones for the paving of tomorrow's happiness. People like that INVITE more happines into their lives.

I sense Pain of all kinds. [Bring in the comments on Star Wars] But I do. Pain of loss. Fear. Of Not knowing. Not being. Of fear of past. Of anger. Anger does come from pain, because most happy people won't attack, or troll.

All those ******ds expressions are nice, and there's a DIFFERENCE between the Nice Car house. I know that as a matter of FACT, because alot of wealthy people don't PERSONALIZE their items or possessions, they aren't CRAZY about it, as if their life would end because of some fvck up. Sure, if you sunk your life savings into the car, you'd be hurt if it got damaged, by why did you do that to begin with??

It's almost like those who INVEST so much into it, more than it's worth, a very high cost, are VERY fearful of losing ANYTHING. I said the same thing to my father..."those who fear death, are afraid because their lives are not inorder and they're not living to their fullest."

Time to them is short and risky, because they're not doing or living what it is they want, and since the world has been stripped of lots of risk, people don't act with immediacy or caring in alot of areas. We freed up tons of time technologically, yet use it less and less except for frivolous pursuits.

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Read, enlighten yourself. See, enlightenment isn't an attained state. If you know it, it's an act, which means it can be turned off. It can't be like "AHA" I found it! It's more like a process EACH day.

I would get the book "Awareness" by Anthony De Mello (or mello). It starts a good opening to this.

I've met many guys who have no SINGLE job or career, but have a PURPOSE of being able to multi-task. One of my friends coaches tennis, he works in insurance, and is able to do oddjobs with computers. He's had multiple occupations and is VERY good with people. He understands them and remains cool at most times. He lives his purpose of not being settled into 1 boring routine. It diffuses his massive energy somewhat, but on the flip side, he's never bored, and he cross sells alot of it.

The PURPOSE is, you're ok today, because if you're not, when will you be? What will it take? How long?

Catch my drift. If not now, when? If not you, who? If not that, what?

That's what it becomes, a search OUTSIDE oneself for ANYTHING. Goals. Fulfillment. Approval. Life. Money. That thinking means @ birth you were left INCOMPLETE, and you must seek until you find it. I believe you FIND your purpose, and live it, you seek it in you, but you don't find it in the world. Your purpose won't be something listed in the career office of a high school or college. It will be something YOU determine.

And the great successes do that. THEY dictate what they will do, otherwise they'd never be anywhere. They lead their uniqueness, because THAT confirms their existence to THEMSELVES. Otherwise, seeking something in the world, eventually the world can say "we no longer need that, bye bye." See what I'm saying?

It's like jobs, people get so emotional about jobs, then we ship them overseas and they're pissed. They spent all this money education and training, and curse the US for shipping them overseas, when most times, it's merely economic factors. I know that politics plays a role, but the only person hurt here would be you, since you're wasting time NOT re-training yourself, you're wasting time NOT profiting, and hurting your family in the time being. Get me?

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What I feel/think doesn't necessarily have to work, and I get flames for being TOO complex or TOO deep, but I do like being deep. It's who I am. I find through complexity I get to simplicity, because ALOT of it comes down to simple things once you learn to discard the complex parts.

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I say this is an EDUCATION. Read the books the thoughts, the postings everywhere of thoughts you like and respect. Incorporate them. It isn't religion, it's about healthy living.

I had a lengthy talk with a buddy of mine I wing with sometimes, and we've pulled some cute/hot duo's, and with NO intention of banging them did so in our younger days. We had no science to it, except that of preparation. No lines, nothing. We just made sure we looked good, went for fun, and found people for fun. In the end it worked out. I think we had 3+ couples of girls we both dated and hooked up with, which is good odds together, meaning BOTH friends.

But if you said "A-Unit" let's go sarge, I wouldn't go. I'd chill, golf, get some drinks, watch sports, and if we were out and found some beauties I thought were worth talking to, I would. The mentality of trying so HARD for pvssy is what it's SO elusive. Girls keep it from guys like that. You ever see the porn shots, myspace, aol profile, facebook, pictures, etc? All girls take pics like they're in porn. They all want sex, and if you respond like some paying customer, that's all you get, c0ckteasing, because you did all the other guys do.

You get WAY more success going for mutual girls who seem to dig you as much you dig them. And that carefree attitude of knowing your purpose of believing you ARE purpose as born as what you are and investing in areas you're great at leads to success.



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