Aaron Machbitz

who want the grift.

That's all they care about is the money and to keep you stuck in this cycle of blaming everyone else outside of you and not taking responsibility.

And you take responsibility, you go find great role models.

And so let's get into the psychology just a little bit quickly here, because we all have foundational needs.

Every human being on the planet, men, women alike, all of us have foundational needs, have foundational needs to belong.

to feel competent, and to have direction, meaning, purpose, all of these things.

And again, this is what the performative bullshit grifters do.

They capitalize on these feelings, on this psychology.

And so specifically for men, there is a drive for status.

There is a drive for status.

Men do want status.

And there are two very different ways that we get it.

The first one

The more important one is competence and respect.

We can gain a ton of status in the world from competence and respect.

This is the hard road though.

This is long and arduous and you fall down, you get back up and you fail and you get back up and there's setbacks and there's challenges, but this is earning.

This is earning your stripes in a craft, a career, a skill as a father, as a husband.

This is the way of the real genuine masculine man.

earning status through competence and respect.