Hey,

I posted this on reddit but it got taken down. I decided here to share an insight I had, a must for everyone getting into The Red Pill.

First let me shed light on some preliminaries:

i) You can not reduce anything into one absolute essential, things are complicated and are heterogenous and its diversity is essential for its making. Think of a body, you cannot reduce it to the cell or a specefic organ as they are differentiated and the body have some properties that are not in the former two.

ii) there are something in life you can control and others you can't. and you can use what you control to influence what you can't control. Every behaviour is made up partially from the context it is in, if we cannot control a behaviour we can try to influence the context thus pushing the behaviour to adapt to a new context. For example we cannot control biology, but by putting the body in a weightlifting context we push it towards certain adaptations that we want.

When a person wants to change, he (or she) faces sometimes things that are out of control. I have discovered in the works of Babette Rothschild, a therapist, that one has only to influence the context of one's life to make it change for the better. This context can be put in five categories (not reducible to one). Take a piece of paper and write down your current status regarding each of the categories and how you could make it better, and in time you'll find yourself changing for the better. Keep in mind that this is not a TRP content necissarily, but everyone coming here that wants to change for the better must START here.

1- Functional resources: money, car , house, good food, clothes, etc. Do you have what takes to live a good comfortable life or are you struggeling with the basics of material living?

2- Body resources: Strength, aesthetics, ability to move freely, hygiene, grooming, skin care, etc. Are you comfortable in your own body or is your body a liability?

3- Psychological resources: being able to be happy, sad, angry, etc. without restricitons. You must not be stuck in one psychological state, you must be able to have an adequat psychological responses.

4- Relational resources: family, loved ones, friends, etc. You must have someone, a tribe if you will (I hate tribalism).

5- Faith: not necissarily religious, you must have faith in the processes of life. If you lift weights you'll get bigger, if you read you'll get smarter, if you apply yourself to your life it'll get better, etc.

Build those five resources and they'll build you. Much like having your money work for you, here we want to have a life that works for you.