From the desk of Victor Pride
Subj: How to live your real life
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So you're 21 years old…
Does it seem like nothing makes any sense?
It seems like everything you're told at 21 years old is the opposite of what you see with your eyes.
Your eyes say one thing and your parents and relatives say another.
You hear them talk about what you should and shouldn't do but they don't really have a clue.
The words they say just don't match the reality you see with your eyeballs.
It even seems like their advice is not meant to help you excel, it seems like their advice is meant to help you fail.
It's not that their advice is bad-hearted, it's just that it's… wrong.
And where does that leave you?
Stuck, lost, confused, maybe even depressed.
If that's you, just what the heck do you do?
I'm so glad you asked…
21 THINGS EVERY 21 YEAR OLD SHOULD DO
1) Do not listen to normal people's advice
The average man today is a give-up artist – fat, dumb, broke and addicted to porn – the opposite of a true role model. Woe be to the young man who listens to conventional advice. If you listen to them you will become them.
Normal people who give up have nothing valuable to teach. The only truly qualified teachers are the abnormal people who follow one vision right until the end. People like your kindly Uncle Victor.
“I wish I had a father like you. I never knew mine.” –Marc, B&D Commenter
2) Quit university
Studying in university is the worst thing you can do to your life. Study is theory, it is not practice. The more practical theory you have, the less true intelligence you have. Intelligence is gathered in one way only – through personal experience. School is a way to put off personal experience longer and longer.
The classroom is not life and the professors are mostly people who have never lived life. Many professors are pathologically unable to see or say the truth, which is why so many American professors are still communists. I have lived in communist countries and I can tell you from first-hand experience – communism ruins countries and the people who live in communist countries go through life like ghosts. Dipshit professors should know that but they don't.
- University = Book-nerds teaching you books written by book-nerds
- Bold & Determined = Reality transmitted directly to you
Learning is not the same thing as studying! Learning comes from personal experience. Study comes from the word of others (and you learn nothing). Seek to learn, do not seek to remember silly facts because it's real-world USELESS!
3) Do not get a job
After receiving a university education you are not equipped to think any longer, you are equipped only to follow orders at some job that you will hate your entire life. Do you want to be happy? To be happy, you have to make your work, not “get a job.” Jobs are for college educated slaves and you already know that. Higher education is a rat race that leads to a job that leads to nowhere. There is a better solution…
4) Travel the world to get a real education
For most of my life I was a fool. I listened to others, even though I didn't believe them, because I didn't know any other option. It wasn't until I got on a plane to China that I developed intelligence.
How did I develop intelligence? Travel is my only teacher. It is only through travel that I learned anything about anything.
If you want to know anything about life, you MUST see life in a 3rd world. Not only must you see it, you must live it, you must speak to the people who are stuck in the 3rd world, you must understand how great you have it.
You know what I learned traveling the world? I learned that people in the first world are pathologically unable to see reality while people who live in the 3rd world are very sensitive to reality. To get the truth of the world, you have to ask a poor person in the 3rd world.
They'll tell you the absolute truth of the world in no uncertain terms – you must make a lot of money. Money is god and only a damn fool believes otherwise! Experience life and you will learn this obvious truth.
5) Seek experience, not reward
The number one thing my young interns lack is the concept of patience. You've got to learn before you can earn. Learning cannot be skipped. Rewards are for men who did the work.
Seek no reward other than a life well lived. Paradoxically, this is how you are rewarded.
Forget about money NOW, concentrate on money in the future. Do this and the future it will rain money on you (as long as you do your rain dance right now).
6) Make your own opportunities
You know that you have no right to expect to make money without first doing intensive and intelligent preparation. EXPECT NOTHING TO BE GIVEN TO YOU!
Expect nothing and you will not be disappointed because it is a guarantee: nothing will be given to you. If you want it, you must take it. Weak men wait for opportunities. Strong men make them.
Nihil sine labore = Nothing without work
You make your own opportunities and you do not whine and complain about a “lack of opportunity” because there is no such thing as a lack of opportunity, only a lack of balls and a lack of willingness to take opportunity.
7) Keep a copy of Bold & Determined Vol. 1 in your suitcase
We always need reminders of success. B&D Vol. 1 is your reminder to be a big success! Even if you don't read the book, simply seeing the cover and seeing the words will remind you to become success.
KEEP ONLY 1-2 BOOKS WITH YOU! Having many books is useless, they will serve only to confuse you. You keep only 1 or 2 books with you to serve as reminders only. Reading books all the time will rob you of creativity, so keep it simple to stay creative.
To be a true original you must learn for yourself – you must experience for yourself. This is the only way you will ever be “creative”.
Creativity is nothing more than seeing the world through your own eyes rather than through anyone else's eyes. This is why you keep only a copy of B&D because B&D is not about me, it never was. It is about YOU!
8) Don't waste your life jerking off
Sun Ssu-mo says, “If a man squanders his semen, he will die soon. For a man, this is the most important point to remember about sex.”
We've all been sold that jacking off is great and healthy but do yourself a favor, go jack off and then go look in the mirror. Do you look vibrant and healthy or do you look sickly and weak? We both know the answer.
Masturbation is the true #1 killer of confidence and capability. The negative effects of masturbation are both mental and physical.
- Physical effects of jacking off: “This vital fluid of man carried back and diffused through his system makes him manly, strong, brave and heroic. If wasted, it leaves him effeminate, weak and physically debilitated.”
- Mental effects of jacking off: “In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening.”
What's the solution? If you want motivation, don't jack off, it's that simple. At 21 you should be throwing a fuck into every young slut you run across, not into your hand. Just don't get seriously involved with one of them (especially if her cooter smells like rotten fish, it means she has a sexually transmitted disease).
Young ladies today are quick to fuck, but that's because the roles have been reversed and they have more testosterone than young boys do. Not good for long term. Remember, you can't turn a ho into a housewife and it's a mistake to try.
Follow 30 Days of Discipline and you will see what life is like when you aren't wasting your life constantly jerking off (i.e. what life is like when you are busting with MOTIVATION).
9a) Break your phone addiction
21 year olds are addicted to their phones like dope-heads are addicted to dope. These young guns today think their phone is an “extension of them.” It isn't. When you're on your phone you are in other people's worlds, never your own.
On the phone you can never be on the moment, you can never be totally absorbed in your own world. Instead, you become totally absorbed in another's world. You already know that phones kill relationships. In the same way they kill relationships, they also kill your creativity.
Not only does staring at your phone non-stop make you look like a jerk, your phone does very nasty things to your body! Staring at your phone kills your posture.
9b) Go to a coffee shop without a phone
This is the new Starbucks challenge: go to a coffee shop once per week… alone. Here's the challenge – leave the laptop and phone at home.
Do this to be alone with and confront your thoughts like a man. Don't hide from nothing, especially not your own thoughts. Be a man and confront yourself without a crutch. Be old school – bring a notebook and a pen with you.
10) Keep your phone on airplane mode
Your phone must be kept on airplane mode because of an invisible thing in the air called electro-magnetic radiation. Electro-magnetic radiation is how your phone is able to be used without wires or chords. Electro-magnetic radiation is how your phone works “wireless”.
But wireless does not equal “painless” and much of the depression, joint pain, inner agitation people feel today is due to electro-magnetic radiation aka electro-magnetic hell in your cell.
Keep your gadgets on airplane mode when not using them because it is in your very best interest to do so.
“But Victor, what if Becky calls? I'll miss the call!!”
Let that little slut wait. Keep your phone on airplane and never keep your laptop on your lap! It fries your boys and kills your testosterone levels.
11) Check your testosterone levels
Every 21 year old living today has low testosterone (in the opinion of my eyes and of science). Testosterone is what makes a man and if you don't have it, you don't become the man you should be. You stay the boy you shouldn't be. All 21 year olds need to go and get their testosterone levels checked!
Why do you have low testosterone if you're still young, dumb and full of cum? It is not your fault! We live in a poison environment and the massive amount of pollution we ingest is the culprit.
Are you less of a man if you have low testosterone? Yes you are less of a man if you have low testosterone, but remember 2 things: (1) it's not your fault and (2) it can be fixed if you take a proactive stance.
You do not want to live your life as a frumpy, low-T “dude” when you could just as easily live like a man. The first step is to get and get your testosterone checked and verify 100% what your testosterone levels are.
After that, you can increase testosterone and decrease estrogen with Red-PCT. Take 3 tabs per day for 3 weeks, then take 3 weeks off. Continue 3 weeks on, 3 weeks off forever.
American B&D readers can check their testosterone (without a Doctor's approval) at MyLabFax.
12) KILL ESTROGEN!
The importance of maintaining optimal hormone levels and overall hormonal balance cannot be stressed enough. Once you get your testosterone and estrogen levels to optimized levels the difference in your quality of life can be night and day.
By greatly increasing natural testosterone levels in the body, Red-PCT can boost your sex drive, increase your bone mass, improve your fat distribution, and help you develop more muscle mass and strength — it also gives you great gym pumps.
Red-PCT absolutely is made from the best testosterone increasing ingredients available legally. It has proven itself in blood-work (and in countless user reviews) to drastically increase free testosterone levels, and bring estrogen levels down to a healthier level.
13) Throw away the clock
People always complain about time, time, time. They say “there's not enough time!” but they make one big mistake – they waste their time staring at the clock.
If you do nothing but watch the clock count down of course there are not enough hours in the day. On the other hand, when you never look at the clock the hours in a day are long.
“It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time.” -Orison Swett Marden
Is time any different if you look at the clock or not? No. What is different is your pre-occupation. If you're pre-occupied with time you cannot be pre-occupied with your work but! if you're pre-occupied with your work you do not feel the stress of time.
Worry about time or worry about work, one or the other. I say, be in the moment because there is nowhere else to be.
14) Sign up to the B&D email list
It is important to be on the Bold and Determined email list because that is the only way that we at B&D communicate when a new post is ready. Some people use social media, but everybody on earth uses email. That is why it is important to sign up to the B&D email list – when a new post is ready, you will be notified first through email. Sign up here (it's free).
15) Talk less, listen more
Your voice must be earned, just because you are given a voice does not mean you have to speak everything you think. Telling everybody everything you think is stupid. You will NEVER LEARN if you don't stop talking.
Don't talk, don't ask endless questions, just listen.
When someone is speaking do not wait for your turn to talk. Instead, listen to what they say. Don't ask questions! Just listen and learn. People will tell you all of their success secrets if you just listen. How do con artists fool people? They listen. How do you get fooled? You talk too much!
Be sure to listen to poor people. I have learned more from speaking to poor people than I have learned from all of my high school and university teachers combined. No one wants to listen to the poor and that is a stupid mistake, the poor are the only ones who live in complete reality. When you talk to them you'll learn one important thing: successful people don't live in reality, successful people live in their own delusion.
16) Start a private diary, log everything
Log everything that you learn in your private diary. Instead of opening your mouth and vomiting your information to anyone who will listen (no one will listen to a 21 year old), log it in your personal private diary. You will want to view this in years to come. You will never be able to remember all of the lessons you've learned, all of the experiences you've had, all of the revelations you've come to unless you write them down.
Writing your lessons (and goals) down also acts as a “brain cleaner.” See, your brain only has so much space, it can only remember so much information. To remember new information it has to clean out old information. If that old information wasn't written down it could be lost forever. Do your future self a favor and write everything down – you will want to compare how far you've come from where you started.
Your private blog could eventually make you a million dollars as it did for me BUT! you need experience first. Gain the experience, log the experience, then when you truly have a unique voice you can turn your voice into your business.
Until then, log everything and keep moving forward. Start your blog with Badnet because we don't charge you anything and we give you so much extra.
17) Go to bed when it's dark and wake up when it's dark
Sleep is for old people! Wake up because sleep is pussy shit (develop the discipline of a soldier). Over and over I have learned this valuable lesson: the more you sleep, the less energy you have. The less you sleep, the more energy you have. Sleeping more is not “healthy”, it's a way to escape life. Let those other dipshits escape life, you wake up and you live it to the fullest.
You cannot live life to the fullest if you are asleep. Sleep when you're dead, right now you must wake up and get to work because life will pass you by if you don't. Always work up an appetite before breakfast! Morning is no time to be lazy and your breakfast doesn't taste good unless you earn it.
18) Train your body every single day
A lean body is a clean mind. A fat body is a muddy mind. If you ain't strong, you are wrong. If you ain't lean, you ain't mean. Solution? Stay lean, stay mean. Do mobility work every single day. Your body is a temple and you must treat it as such.
You must take care of your body now so that in later years you will still be fit. Remember, if you ain't fit, you ain't shit. You feel significantly better if you just take the time to do the things you need to do, like stretching, breathing, and mobility training.
19) Drive a motorbike through the Hai Van Pass in Vietnam
Go there, drive the pass, remember the pass, take no photographs, then, later, put the feeling down into words. The feeling you had at the Hai Van Pass, write it down in your private diary. NO PICTURES! Use your memory to paint the picture with words.
20) When people say bad things about you, prove to the world that those people are liars
Throughout your life people will talk bad about you. There are 3 ways you could respond:
- Explain to them why they're wrong
- Say bad things about them
- Say nothing, work hard, use them as fuel, prove them wrong, laugh all the way to the bank (hahahaha)
Explaining to people why they're wrong is a waste of time. Arguing with people is a waste of time. There is only one true way to take revenge on the people who talk about you…
YOU WILL ACHIEVE MASSIVE SUCCESS!
Talkers are the people who will never find success. Because they know they will never find success, they either believe that no one else can either or they want to make sure you don't find success. Either way, they must be ignored and only used as fuel for your fire.
21) Achieve New World Ronin status
New World Ronin is a young man's book. To old men it reads like gibberish, to young men of the 21st century it is the Holy grail, the new true Bible of success and freedom. The Holy Bible's teachings are hidden under a mask of allegory. New World Ronin is the opposite, it's teachings are hidden in plain sight, under the veil of complete truth.
If there's one thing I've learned in this world, it's this: older people in the west hate the truth. They aren't bad people, but the world they grew up in is different than your world and they wouldn't recognize the truth of this world if it bit them on the face.
Only the few and true can succeed wildly. Their time is over and your time is beginning. You are not the future, you are the right now.
And right now you must follow the way of the ronin if you want success. There is no other way. There are no jobs for you, no one will give you a damn thing, you must create your future and the blueprint is New World Ronin.
But remember, blueprints are black and white, you must crack the code and fill in the color yourself.
Don't bitch about it, be about it. Then just go and do it.
Always stay young, always stay dumb and always stay full of cum.
Until next time.
Your man,
-Victor Pride
PS – Don ‘t forget to start your private blog with Badnet right now. In a few years you will be very glad you started today. You will look back and you will be amazed. You will say, look where I was then and look where I am now. WOW!
I wish I had this guide when I was 21 years old.
Unfortunately mistakes are mistakes and now I have to pay for those mistakes. But my willing to embrace my masculinity, take action and become a man of value without apologies is synonymous with my life now. And for this, major role has played Bold and Determined.
Especially:
-the 1st point: not listening to normies. This is the beginning, the first step of the ladder.
-the 8th: quit masturbating guys. It’s really crucial. You will feel you live a completely different life
-the 9th: throw this fucking smartphone in the river !
-the 15th: master the art of talking less and listening more. It’s an art and you should take enormous quiet pride when you reach this point. Very few people are truly capable of this.
-the 18th: the gym will literally change your life. Simple as that !
Another one solid article !
Thanks George.
I’ve learned more from B&D than I have from all of my school years.
I learned how to be a man, make money, and the importance of betting on yourself.
Thank God for B&D and thank God for us living in the best of times.
Thanks Dylan.
Great list.
So pleased someone is talking about electro magnetic radiation. (No.10). This stuff could well be the next smoking or asbestos. My phone is always on aeroplane mode unless I need a signal for a specific reason. I don’t have a smartphone either. Yeah I missed it at first but the benefits far outweigh the negatives.
When i look around at people with their faces in their smartphone, I think to myself, these are all people I am ahead of in this game.
Thanks RP.
This couldn’t have came at a better time.
I remember just last year I was living in a 3rd whole shithole actually enjoying it. I traveled regularly, lifted everyday had the body of an Adonis, I had visited almost every island of the Caribbean all with sun kissed skin and a smile in my face.
Now I’m in Virginia and I’m skinny fat, tired all the time, beat off like a 14 year old loser, I’ve almost been driven to suicide twice and cant handle being without my phone.
I’ve become a sad shell of a confidence happy man who enjoyed the world and I’m to blame as well as listening to average men who don’t know shit about the world drove me insane.
Thank you Victor when 2019 rolls around I can confidently say I will not reenlist in the military and go back to the better old me because this post 2017 Jeremy is a nightmare
Great comment, Jeremy. Thanks for sharing.
I’m 41 and I can say this list is spot on. Wish this site was around when I was 21 (although I don’t even think I was using the internet back then). I had to learn a lot of these lessons the hard way.
Thanks Jcard.
from iran i say hello and thanks
your are real man
Hello Javid, thank you for reading.
Victor, you’re right on the money with this article. I thank the universe every day that I found your words nearly 5 years ago at the age of 21. It was a time where I had lost all hope. I lost my car, my job, and my girl. I packed my bags and headed home to mommy and daddy’s and that’s where I discovered B&D.
I couldn’t figure out why people didn’t like me. I had always been told I was cute and polite. I thought that was everything I needed to have a great life and have a great girl.
You taught me that being cute and polite was the fast track way to being a pussy who will be walked on like a dirty mat in front of a convenience store.
Your words hurt me. It was like I was wearing a coat of lies and your words were the sword that pierced the fabric and pierced my heart.
I felt my ego die during those hard times. I took your advice and closed my mouth. I began to listen to what the B&D universe and what my gut instinct told me….
“Be somebody with a body” was the first lesson.
I did just that. I didn’t even have a weight set. I was at mommy and daddy’s and just started running and doing bodyweight exercises. I was obsessed with physical improvement.
Girls, hot girls started to notice me. Hell, I was even cat-called quite a few times. I looked good but I knew it was my confidence they were attracted to. I had swagger.
I didn’t ignore my mind. I read the B&D articles and found the right books. I studied hard and it paid off.
It’s been years now and things have been crazy. Ups and downs have come and gone.
Taking the advice from B&D gave my life purpose. My purpose wasn’t evident at the beginning. It only came after I worked and worked and worked. I wasn’t getting paid but I KNEW that good things would come – and they did.
I’m not rich by any means but the tools are there when I will need them. I’m turning 26 soon and my purpose now is to wander. I have a modest online income that allows me to travel and that’s what I’ve been doing for the last 8 months.
I believe traveling is the best thing a young human can do. Started a business is great, but how can you be successful if you don’t know anything?
Not many 18-30 year olds have shit to talk about. Marketing is what makes or breaks most businesses. How can you market yourself at YOU, Inc if you aren’t interesting?
Get out in the world and do cool shit. Pick up girls in languages you barely speak, spend a few weeks naked at a secret beach in Mexico, sleep in hostel dorms with 20 people you don’t know if you should trust, take a bag of frozen corn into the barrier reef and watch the thousands of colorful fish swarm around you. There’s so much more you can learn just putting yourself out into the world and letting things happen. Do you really think a college professor can teach you more than planet earth which has been around for billions of years? just lol
If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor and pick up Victors books. My favorite is 30 Days of Discipline. I admit I have never fully completed every rule for 30 days, but I read it every single day on my morning beach/mountain/city walk (depends where i happen to be). The words in that book are magic. I’m inspired to do great shit every time I read it.
Keep preaching, Vic. Thank you so much.
Thanks Blayde. Great comment!
love you and love your post. really kickass!
Damn! Amazing comment!
Spot on Vic. I just turned 41 and wish I had this when I was 21. Knew and spot the bullshit but didn’t know how to truly confront it.
Thanks James.
do an article for someone entering 30’s
In the works.
I wait for such an article for the 30+-years-old too !
Not 21 yet but a good prep for it. My T levels are on point and I know it every time I train legs.
Keep it up Victor!
Will do!
I love your post!!! I been reading your blog since 9th grade and now I just graduate out of high school heading toward trade school.
And I want to say thank you for guiding me and giving me motivation you are a great mentor
Thanks Raymond!
Victor what’s your opinion on Military Schools?
See #2.
I think when studying the right degree and spending your university years the right way (applying konwledge from the article) can be a net plus for your overall life. While still school, in university you have way more freedom and dont need to necessary do all the things professors tell you.
What do you think, Victor?
#2
You forgot to include “Think For Yourself.”
I may not agree with everything here but that’s because I make my own decisions and think for myself. Other than that great post.
Cheers.
Thanks Roman.
If anyone is having a problem with porn and masturbation and will not kill the fucking useless habit after reading this holy article,that person is and will forever be a LOSER in life.
I have deleted my Facebook account,started a blog and hustling. No going back baby. I must Achieve New World Ronin status in this life.
University is a big joke! Hahaa.. Go if you don’t have a purpose in life or Go,learn a skill and be the Man.
Victor Pride is truly a God.
Onward New World Ronin’s!
Fight.Till.You.Win
My man!
I have to disagree with point number #2, Nick.
2) Quit university.
Nick, I admitt I have no idea what university were you in (if any at all). But you were right that SOME professors have no idea at all that what they teach is nowhere close to real life experience. But I think you’re quite biased here (note that I’m European, things might be different here). While I agree that most courses are good for nothing, but some, especially engineering, are quite good! Not because they give you “real life experience” but because they actually teach you to THINK on your own. It might not be about real life problems, but about to teach you abstract thinking, so when you got to face real life problems, you already have some equipments to start solving the problem.
I am not planning to “just survive” university, I plan to get the goddamn most of it! Some students are just about parties and drinking yet I am to find the pearl in the mud by finding the like-minded individuals I can forge lifetime alliances with (and with your old B&D guidelines, I’m quite successfull in it). Such people are hard to find, but possible. I pity you, that you had such bad experiences with uni, but believe me, it’s possible to ally with the best of the best who are not about to just get a degree and work 9-7 till pension.
“Seek to learn, do not seek to remember silly facts because it’s real-world USELESS!” – 10/10 fact, Nick, but remember, not all of the uni is about “remembering silly facts”.
Loved the article Vic!
The no masterbation info is 100% on point! Fucking girls becomes a source of motivation to not jack off lol. Im going to try to learn how to orgasm without ejaculating, which is tough. But once I get that down, Im gonna be a fuckin king. Thanks again!
Btw is it just me or does your skin/complexion improve significantly after a few weeks of semen retention? I swear my skin and overall look totally changes
“is it just me or does your skin/complexion improve significantly after a few weeks of semen retention?”
Yes, absolutely. You look more vibrant.
No. 1.. so god damn true.
id like to follow it up with a quote to add to your point by a gentlemen who post on some “manosphere”
(cant stand that word) sites and his handle is deti; please soak all it in, fellas
” I’ve become more cynical and less trusting in every area of my life. I’ve said it before: Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, I thought I knew about male-female relationships was 100% wrong. I put my trust in parents, teachers, pastors, Scout leaders, and other adults who I thought knew what they were talking about, only to discover that they had absolutely NO idea what they were talking about. I listened to them about other things too, such as school advice, college advice, politics, economics, nutrition, medicine, business, and career advice. Increasingly, I am discovering they were wrong about that stuff too.”
its a hard, cold lesson to realize the conventional “truths” (ha) the people youre TOLD to lesson to, arent the best for YOU. but its the real men who have the balls to disconnect themselves from the matrix and live their lifes by their own rules.
Boom. Nice comment 23.
Holy shit, Bold and Determined is the greatest blog in existence and this article is true and powerful, just like every article on this damn website! HAHA Damn, Victor, I really wish I could have seen this when I was 21. I absolutely CANNOT WAIT for your article on going into your 30’s!
I am now 32 and this website has helped me out in too many ways to count. I’ve gained a lot of muscle and I’m a much more focused, driven and confident guy overall! Its crazy because in a lot of ways I was the guy that this article warns you about. Masturbating, smoking weed and pretty much just being a loser.
But now I am strong as hell and ripped. My health is under control now in a way that I never felt previously and its all from Vic’s teachings. Girls eyeball me wherever I go and men routinely just walk up to me and ask me for life advice. At first I didn’t know what to think about it but now its just funny to me!
My goal remains to be free of the corporate 9-5 and travel as I please and although I haven’t reached success quite yet, I’m working on it. NEVER GIVE UP. I will find a way and I’ll keep reading B&D for my daily shot of motivation!
“I’ve gained a lot of muscle and I’m a much more focused, driven and confident guy overall! I am strong as hell and ripped. My health is under control now in a way that I never felt previously and its all from Vic’s teachings. Girls eyeball me wherever I go and men routinely just walk up to me and ask me for life advice.”
My man!
badass compliment. success stories in the B&D comment section are always A1 good stuff.
Victor! You are a great man. Since the day I knew this site, and feed from it, I never regret.
Thanks Daniel.
Great article, I’m 23 and I’ve made a lot of these decisions (with a little help from Victor). When will New World Ronin be available again?
Thanks Stephen.
“When will New World Ronin be available again?”
When the timing is right.
Wow. All I have to say is, you have inspired me 10x more than you already have.
Thanks Colten.
Internet is effective tool. There are so many information out there vs decades ago.
Your ability to surf the internet to obtain information relies on your ability to discern the right one from the wrong ones.
If you go to youtube and type in molecular biology or some similar concepts for example, then you can get quality videos of education, all free, for you. (Of course if you do pay the internet bill that is)…
Now imagine having to take a course on biology or chemistry in university. If you are young, you might not even be able to pay for these classes without getting some help from family or financial aid (if you are poor).
Plus on youtube, you can watch at your own pace. There are 2x speed and if you are fast absorb learner, then you can quickly reduce time and still be able to understand at the fast speed.
Or you can do this.
Make a bookmark and put this into the url section
javascript:document.getElementsByClassName(“video-stream html5-main-video”)[0].playbackRate = 3.0;
you can label the name as “x3” for example so that you can know this is for speed.
You can edit the number to whatever speed you feel comfortable at hearing comprehending the messages from videos.
All you have to do is go to your ‘favorite’ youtube link video and then go to bookmark and press over it where you saved this url link.
I think the max goes to 5 but right now for me, 3 is good where I can still hear and understand. Any more than that, then I have hard time but before I used to only listen to it at youtube setting of 1.5 speed and now increased to 3.0 once I got better at it in couple of month.
This saves a lot of time.
So if young guys are thinking of using youtube to learn then consider this in mind. It’s better to use that website to get education (if that is where you want to go) but otherwise if you are surfing the tube sites for “fun” or entertainment then you are wasting time.
Most of the stuff that is taught in college can easily be found online these days and you can learn so much more and also at a faster rate.
Even simple google images can show you a lot of useful diagrams (for example if you want to learn about cellular signaling pathways) then you get a lot of picture and diagrams to help you learn if you are visual learner.
Great comment again, TS.
Great article Uncle Vic.
Thanks for sharing your lessons and wisdom with us.
Quick Question : Do you practice any form of Martial Arts?
Thanks.
“Quick Question : Do you practice any form of Martial Arts?”
I lift weights, stretch, eat correctly, breathe correctly, and train my mind.
What coomunist country did you live? It`s very interesting.
China and Vietnam.
Thank you for another spot on article, Vic. #10 “Keep your phone on airplane mode” made me smile as I used to be obsessed with putting my phone on airplane mode 7 or 6 years ago. I did it because I’d suddenly remembered the radiation spot on my father’s chest back in the 90’s. He’d have his cell phone in his chest pocket. They were big and probably even more radioactive back then. But today I think WiFi is a more important concern. This is why I use wired connection. With regard to cell phones, it’d be already a great help for your health to just keep the mobile data switched off.
Great comment, Aleks.
you didn’t wrote this article when I was 21 a few years ago. I know now that going to college is the same as before nor it is worth it anymore. I feel guilty of participating within the system. Now that I’m about to graduate, I’m awaiting a 30k debt, I feel so guilty now. Anyways thanks for writing because the only choice that I have is to move on.
Guilt is a slave emotion, do not let it into your mind. It is what it is, learn from it and move on.
Holy shit. I have 21, thanks for this article Victor.
My pleasure, Israel.
I’m turning 21 this October, thank you for this post Victor.
Thought-provoking indeed!
My pleasure!
Hi Victor!
A great piece like usual!
I am glad that I came across your blog when I was about 23. It was a real eye opener to me.
Keep up the good work!
– Shyam
Thanks Shyam!
Great post as usual.
I like the part where you talk about professors in college. It is so true. They don’t live in the real world. They live in their own safe little environments.
It’s like the old motto: “Those that can’t do, teach.”
The professors also like to break the rule of not listening and just enjoying feeding their own egos by spewing out their own opinions. I especially saw this in when I had to take an airy fairy philosophy class.
Keep em coming Vic,
All the best,
D
Thanks Derek, great comment.
Its been 10 fucking long years. Im 17 now. My abusive older brother is a psychopath and today he told me he will stab me and I will die in my blood.
I have been grinding for 3 years. I have made money online, not too much, but I have made real life experience in business and I’m still going.
I have been following Body of A Spartan for 3 years and now I’m the biggest guy in my Highschool (Senior)
I have the most intense hate for people, family, friends, accomplices. They’re all so fucking fake!
I will travel the world and not go to college and be tied the fuck down.
Give me 3 fucking years. I promise you Victor, remember me.