Plasticity: Remnants of Old Conditioning | TheRedPill

TLDR; Old habits die hard, be aware of constant external factors that try to bring you back to your old conditioning. Taking the red pill means you subscribe to ford the hypergamous river that never ends.

If you had to summarize TRP in one word it would be: awareness. Awareness of hypergamy, female nature, shit tests, AF/BB, the value of self improvement and your time, judging behavior over beauty, abundance mentality, etc. Every interaction moving forward is an opportunity to experiment and reinforce these truths. You've swallowed that pill, and to some it may have been the size of a football. Now you're polishing your armor, the one that's been covered in dirt and grime for years. You previously let it just "be itself" for so long. No matter how much you polish it, it keeps getting dirty again; you continue to polish.

There is something in neuroscience called neuroplasticity (wiki here). Essentially, neuroplasticity is a term that defines the plasticity of the brain in it's development - neural pathways construct and reconstruct themselves by adapting to your experiences. Two examples:

(From Wiki: Perceptual adaptation). In the 1890s, psychologist George M. Stratton conducted experiments in which he tested the theory of perceptual adaptation. ...he wore reversing glasses for eight whole days. By day four, the images seen through the instrument were still upside down. However, on day five, images appeared upright until he concentrated on them; then they became inverted again. By having to concentrate on his vision to turn it upside down again, especially when he knew images were hitting his retinas in the opposite orientation as normal, Stratton deduced his brain had reprocessed his vision and adapted to the changes in vision.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle. This guy from the Smarter Every Day youtube channel conducted an experiment where he reversed the steering on a standard bicycle: turning the handlebars one direction resulted in steering the front wheel the opposite direction. The result was that NO ONE could successfully ride the bike, it was almost impossible. This man practiced for EIGHT months before he could ride it successfully - which is the time it took for his neural pathways to reconstruct. Then, when attempting to ride a normal bike again, he struggled....but then a click happened and his brain went back to the old conditioning. He had his ~5 year old son attempt to learn the backwards bike, and it only took him 2 weeks.

These two experiments have two things in common: 1. Your brain can adapt; 2. Your brain can easily and instantaneously revert back to it's old conditioning. Society's hypergamous conditioning is ruthless and never ending. Swallowing the pill is an achievement by few who have chosen to elevate their state of awareness. Some have been bluepill for too long, perhaps taking the red pill after getting divorce raped. Others are here before even graduating high school. Your awareness is plastic, you must always strengthen it because hypergamy will always try to pull you back.

Scenarios where this plasticity becomes apparent (I will update via comments):

Doubts against AWALT, especially the women from your past. Any woman you have previously had oneitis for is dangerous: close that chapter for good. This goes for family as well, no woman escapes AWALT.
LTR/marriage: a relationship with a woman is a constant battle, a barrage of shit/comfort tests, a trick to increase your BB and decrease your AF. What she says she wants is not what she really wants, and you must remain aware of that. Do not slip out of frame, you are a fisherman and you must remain that way. From what I gather, the only way to succeed in a marriage is a red pill marriage.
Failures in maintaining frame. There is nothing that qualifies one to be stoic, you just do it. Lacking confidence? Knees week because she reminds you of a certain girl you once liked? Are you tolerating disrespect? Are you investing more time than you should? Go back to the roots of TRP.

Lessons Learned:

Taking the red pill is not a one-time achievement, it is a perpetual endeavor.
Society's hypergamous conditioning will continually try to pull you back. Be aware, maintain frame, persevere.

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Demonspawn 10y ago

This is why I've said many times that you need to focus your RP thinking until it becomes sub-conscious.

Every day, take a moment to retrain your brain. Stop at some random time and play the last 5-15 minutes through your head. Once you've done that, you'll likely find a few things you did or thought wrong. Pick one of those things and make it your focus to change that pattern over the next few days to few weeks, depending on how long it takes you to retrain that part of your brain. While retraining, keep doing that daily moment to reflect and affirm that you are on your path.

Then, once you feel you've got that pathway rewired, pick another thing to improve.

ont_anon 10y ago

you need to focus your RP thinking until it becomes sub-conscious.

This 1000%. I've been coming here almost daily for about a year and a half now. Been through the sidebar a few times just to stay sharp. Not that I would ever support resting on your laurels, but it's an amazing feeling when you instantly know what to say/do/how to act in a situation. Where I see autonomous TRP responses the quickest in myself is while watching movies - probably because what they show is so bad.

Back in my old semi-BP days, I would have gone along with whatever storyline in the rom-com of the day was. I shudder to think now that I would have maybe even used the storyline for inspiration. Nowadays when I see blatant BP celebration and "romantic" gestures which, in real life, would frighten the shit out of a woman, my blood boils.

I was watching a movie with my SO the other night. It was about some college kids and some nerdy doofus builds up the balls to go talk to The Hot Girl at a party. All they do is talk for a few minutes, she leaves with a smile on her face and he's all doe-eyed. That's their entire interaction so far. Before that she didn't even know he existed.

A few minutes later in the movie she's gone across the country for some kind of intercollegiate competition. And who shows up to surprise and impress her - ACROSS THE COUNTRY - but doofus boy! When she sees him she runs up to him, hugs him and says how amazing it is that he came to see her.

I immediately said out loud with a pissed-off tone, "That's such a crock of shit." I turned to my girl and said, "Honestly, if some dude that you'd only talked to for less than 5 minutes traveled across the country to see you in an athletic competition you'd be freaked the fuck out - even if you 'liked' him." She giggled at me and said, "Oh yeah, that's creepy as hell. I'd be getting a restraining order if something like that ever happened."

But that's what we, as men, are fed from the media about how to get the girl.

RPthrowaway123 10y ago

I like this post. My brain definitely tries to flip back frequently, I have to keep TRP in my conscious mind pretty often to prevent slips.

NeoreactionSafe 10y ago

This is a sort of field report related to plasticity.

I was talking with some liberals (one was a college professor) about how different ethnic groups have different behaviors that are genetic.

African's are much more Alpha and have quick thinking and aggressive tendencies.

European's tend to be more timid initially, but given the chance to figure things out are capable of significantly more complex outcomes.

Women prefer sex with the impulsive Alpha bad boy over the slow moving Beta guy even though he has a massive pile of cash. (AF/BB)

Now we generally all agree that these are truths. We see them, we know them.

These liberal types were very certain that it's a problem of education.

"If only the African could be given additional education he could become a Beta."

Well... probably not. The African is genetically predisposed to Alpha behavior in the sense he will be naturally more impulsive compared to a European.

Just as you can't make the European impulsive, you aren't going to teach the African to do things above his mental capacity.

The European can be made to understand women better and change his behavior to increase his Alpha perception, but it's not driven by the underlying biology as it is with Africans.

The European can improve.

The African is already there.

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An_All-Beef_Engineer 10y ago

If you took a three year old European and dropped him in with a Nigerian family them at 10 you would find he was predisposed to Alpha behavior and vice versa

NeoreactionSafe 10y ago

Ah... the "blank slate" theory.

And some women are perfectly rational and honorable and don't hamster.

(sarcasm)

An_All-Beef_Engineer 10y ago

Ah.. reductio ad absurdium.

I'll leave you to hamster your superiority while Tyrone genetically disposes on your wife.

NidStyles 10y ago

I disagree with this generalist comment on the basis of Africans being "naturally" more alpha. Having serving in the Army with people that were actually from Africa, the only "alpha" trait I would give them credit for is impulsivity. As for pure aggressive and strength of will, that goes to Amerindians and western European stocks. Nothing stops a pissed off Germanic or Gallic dude, and Amerindians have that natural silent driven nature that just signals a deep brooding aggression. Amerindians are found in far disproportionate numbers in the elite units.

Impulsivity in the eyes of women is only "alpha" when it is accompanied by the strength of will holding him from being overtly emotional. Women do not see men that lose their cool as "alpha". Africans from what I have seen lack control.

Remember displaying intelligence is considered insecurity in one's own abilities. They do respect intelligence as an "alpha" trait, but they only respect it through the display of status building action. By that, I mean through fame of income orby being able to socialize and network intelligently.

NeoreactionSafe 10y ago

You have many good points and I agree with your more subtle observations.

As always an intuitive truth loses a great deal in the translation into words.

What is Alpha anyway? We keep asking this and the answers very with each persons perspective.

NidStyles 10y ago

Alpha is situational and based upon perspective. For one woman her Alpha could be you, and for another in the same room with all things being equal, it could be me. It largely depends on the woman herself who the Alpha is in the sexual context. Did her male role model have those traits that define you, or did he have traits that defined me? The whole height and whatnot nonsense are merely consistent variables.