Nick Pell
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6,131 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Sep
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Drive is, I'm sure drive has a lot to do with it, but the act like an alpha thing isn't how strong, confident people act.
It's this weird caricature of how they act formulated by people who are, in my estimation,
deeply insecure.
They think that the golden ticket in business or your social life or whatever is dominance.
It's not.
It's competence.
It's be good.
And much like, you know, the actual wild wolves that we're studying
People will follow you if you demonstrate that you're a competent person and that hitching your ship to their star is going to take them places.
Even in the version of Alpha Beta outside of the manosphere, for men at least, there's a big narrative about how men are feminized and this needs to be undone.
You know, you're too nice.
Nice guys finish last.
And you're too nice because the world is giving men a raw deal because they're men.
And the men are supposed to deal with this using frame control.
All right.
So we know what frame
Frame control comes out of pickup artist culture, but it's one of the parts that fits very neatly into hustle culture, startup culture, corporate culture.
The idea is that all social interactions involve a frame, which I guess you could just say is like a framework or a set of terms or established power dynamic.
In the male version of alpha, these supposedly alpha set of behaviors, you maintain frame by always being stoic, refusing to ever get emotional.
If someone introduces a competing frame,
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