I recently watched the Red Man Group episode on Monk Mode and whether you should go into Monk Mode or not, and it got me thinking on the whole “You might as well just start living now” premise. It made perfect sense now that I heard it. Hell everyone should have thought about this, but I didn’t, and apparently a lot of other people didn’t considering how popular “going Monk Mode” is in the manosphere. So the question was: Why don’t most people see this from the start, and is there a legitimate reason to go Monk Mode?

In my experience with Monk Mode there are 2 options:
A: you pick a number of months 3-6 where you deliberately ignore women and most social responsibilities and actually are productive in the meantime – No video games, getting shitfaced and so on.
B: Same idea you just fuck up and waste your time while being in isolation at the same time.

What are the results of those 2 scenarios:

Scenario A: your lifts go up, you learn some new things, you’re healthier, you’re even worse with women because Game is a skill. Skills need to be practiced to achieve Mastery and you’ve just spend 3-6 months actively avoiding practice and patting yourself on the back for it!

Scenario B: Same thing you’re just fatter and feel worse about yourself.

Now you can yell at me all you want that The Red Pill is about improving yourself and so on, but “The Red Pill: Discussion of sexual strategy in a culture increasingly lacking a positive identity for men.” A 6pack + social inadequacy = inceldom. A huge bank account + social inadequacy = divorce rape/you’re being exploited for your money. Plus you’re supposed to be lifting and working anyway. 3 Months of focusing only on lifting won’t do much for your progress, lifting is a lifetime endeavor and so is working – you don’t just finish them 1 day and never do them again.
So why not start socialising and picking up women now? What’s the appeal of Monk Mode?
The appeal is fear. “I’ll be getting girls just wait till I get my 6pack till then I’m going Monk Mode”,
“I’ll be getting girls, just let me get my business going and they’ll be all over me”. Doesn’t this sound oddly similar to “I’ll be a man if only…”. It sure sounds the same to me.
Where’s the irrational confidence? DJ Khaled has been slaying pussy before he got famous. People sleeping on futons have been slaying pussy left and right, and it wasn’t their fitness or wealth that got the girls – it was their Game.
By going Monk Mode you’re doing a few things that are not only not beneficial but detrimental to your success with women.
A: you’re shutting the door for Irrational Confidence
B: you’re shutting the door down for Narcissism – you’re the main character remember? This is your play and your script, stop being so objective “If I have X money and Z fitness I’ll be getting approximately 2.3 girls a month”
C: you’re delaying the answer to the question “Am I a man”… or at least that’s what you think.
D: and ultimately you don’t believe you can do it, so you put more and more goalposts in your way before you actually go test yourself.

I’d like to hear your opinions on this, guys. Is Monk Mode just another buffer, a very sweet sounding trap or did I fuck it up completely? Until then – go forth and conquer, get yourself out there and fail, learn, win.

Disclaimer: If you’re a player and you need 1 week or 2 of alone time before you continue to bang tons of sluts then this post is not for you obviously.