Success requires you to take advantage of others?

[jhonny9546]

Success requires sacrifice, hard work, and the willingness to challenge conventional wisdom

How could a man be successfull and still be respectfull and get respected?

I mean you have to literally slay dragons and take advantage of situations, create advantages for yourself, and apply "vita mea mors tua"

How do you respect people? How do you get respect from them?

It seems more like to be successful, you can't do that.

You have to make fun of them, otherwise you won't be successful.

You have to be better/superior to them, otherwise you won't be successful.

You have to be able to disrespect them.

I could sell you a fairy tale or a blue pill, telling you to show respect to others while doing shady things behind their backs.
It's that simple. All the "most successful" men, financially and socially, are shady manipulators, and once you get into the mix and act like them, you'll be successful.

But don't talk to me about respecting people. You won't have any mercy for others.

 

[BackInTheGame78]

I mean at some level your life is about "taking advantage" of others.

When you get a job, it means you were hired instead of numerous other applicants.

When you have a girlfriend, it means she chose you instead of multiple other guys.

When you close a business deal, it means the other company chose you over multiple other companies.

Not sure why this is any sort of surprise. It's that way in everything you do in life.

 

[plumber]

just be the best at things. no need to be better than.... just be the best.

your not competing with others, they are competing to get you.

don't disrespect anyone.

 

[jhonny9546]

Thanks for your input.

The whole point of the post is that you have to take advantage of other people to build your life. It's either you or them. Do you understand what I mean?

If you have a very large house and every time you waste two days a week cleaning and keeping it tidy, but you've found a good housekeeper who will take care of all this, and you only pay him $400 a month, but you know you're underpaying him, since a normal contract is $2,000 a month. But you don't care, because he contributes to your life in that way. Actually you've made the deal!
(This is just an example to apply any modern life circumstance)

It's like when you find someone who is beneficial to you, you "keep it a secret" because you're fooling him/her, for taking advantage for your life.


Or, you know you're worth less than others, whether it's at work or simply in another field, yet you make fun of others, trying to devalue them, creating alliances, so that in your own little sphere, you're the ones considered superior, even as you play this game of devaluing others, of selling yourself higher, even though you're truly worthless.
Even though I see many who succeed, I don't do it, because I feel a "revulsion" inside that would tell me I'm acting fake, and it would make me very insecure.


How many men who are seen as high class, high value, and the whole package are actually ****ing beggars, because they only carry water to their own mill?
I bet you can name many.

They're masters at flattering people, putting on a good face in front of them, but as soon as they stop talking to them, the moment they're gone, the first word out of their mouths is contempt, or malice. By doing this, "sour grapes," they've built empires.

They are all pretty much the same... all doing favors, getting into trouble, and at the same time eating bigger slices of the pie, while selling "honesty" and "loyalty" and fake "respect", or "professionalism".

Instead, what are naturally prone to do is inner game.
It is as if I didn't care about devaluing others, to get awards, to say things behind, but only of what I have to do in a short term, my goals.
They are so concentrated that I simply let these cheaters live in this way, and I can evaluate them and see that they are worth less than me, but only for the fact that they are better at "selling", they have many more things than me, things that I struggle a lot to achieve.
Precisely because I am honest, meritocratic and loyal.



So in addition to those of us who make inner game, we have to choose whether to become men who make "implicc", "they steal to others to give them".

I believe that in all this, women feel protected because they have the illusion that this man "can come to kill others, to make their children eat, or support their family"

 

[BaronOfHair]

How do you respect people?

I'm not personally respectful to EVERYONE... Those who go out of their ways to behave like morons on camera(Two examples: Greta Thunberg, almost every prominent MRA)make themselves easy targets for lampooning, and I for one don't hesitate to do so, even when I agree with a point or two they've made

By doing so, I've created my own brand: An ardent detractor of those who are essentially modern equivalents of The Medieval Church or/and The Ayatollahs in modern-day Tehran