You said that a harmless man is not a

good man. A good man is a very dangerous

man who has that under voluntary

control. How should people become more

dangerous?

Oh, becoming more articulate is

definitely I would say

that's the primary

array of weapons. Those who have swords

and know how to use them but keep them

sheath will inherit the world. That's a

way better way of thinking about it. You

have to be powerful and formidable and

then peaceful in that order, right? And

that's not the same as being naive and

weak and harmless, which is what young

men are being encouraged to be. It's

like that's a very bad idea. It's a very

bad idea cuz naive, weak, and harmless

means that you can't withstand the

tragedies of life. You can't bear any

responsibility. You'll end up bitter.

And when you get bitter, then you get

dangerous.

>> The world will reward you in proportion

to your courage, not your intellect. The

most dangerous person in the world is

the one who continues to show up every

day even when the rewards are not

guaranteed. Your potential is determined

by the amount of uncertainty you're able

to tolerate and how long you can

tolerate it for. You can beat 99% of

people if you can master the shame of

rejection, the bord of repetition and

the pain of feedback. People think that

you should be weak and you should be

docile and then you you should be a

pacifist. He goes, "No, you should be a

monster." He said, "You should be a

monster. You should be ruthlessly

ambitious and then learn how to control

it."

>> It's very helpful for people to hear

that they should make themselves

competent and dangerous and take their

proper place in the world.

>> Competent and dangerous.

>> Why dangerous?

>> Because it's the alternative to being

weak. And weak is not good. How is it

good to be dangerous? Because it makes

you formidable. And life is a very

difficult process. And it's not for

you're not prepared for it unless unless

you have the capacity for to be

dangerous.

>> And saying men should be dangerous.

By dangerous that implies I should be

ready to threaten someone to hurt

somebody.

>> No, you should be capable of it.

But that doesn't mean you should use it.

There's nothing to you otherwise. Like

if you're not a formidable force,

there's not there's no morality in your

self-control. If you're incapable of

violence, not being violent isn't a

virtue. People who teach martial arts

know this full well, right? If you learn

a martial art, you learn to be

dangerous, but simultaneously you learn

to control it. Both of those come

together. And the combination of that

capacity for danger and the capacity for

control is what brings about the virtue.

Otherwise, you confuse weakness with

with moral virtue. I'm harmless,

therefore I'm good. It's like, no, that

isn't how it works. That isn't how it

works at all. If you're harmless, you're

just weak. And if you're weak, you're

not going to be good. You can't be

because it takes strength to be good.

It's very difficult to be good.

>> Be a dangerous man.

Now, being dangerous is not being a

threat. They're two different things.

All right? And it's not about going out

and lifting weights and getting a bunch

of tattoos and wearing leather jackets

and walking around with your chest and

shoulders up, hulking around saying,

"I'm dangerous." That's very rarely is

that a dangerous man.

Often the most dangerous man in the room

is the quietest man in the room. You

can't be a good man.

A fully good man if you're not a

dangerous man. To be good is to do good

to people. And sometimes doing good to

people is protecting those people. If

you are not capable of cruelty, you are

absolutely a victim to anyone who is.

Part of the reason that people go watch

anti-heroes and villains is because

there's a part of them crying out for

the incorporation of the monster within

them, which is what gives them strength

of character and selfrespect because

it's impossible to respect yourself

until you grow teeth. And if you grow

teeth, then you realize that you're

somewhat dangerous and or maybe somewhat

seriously dangerous. And then you might

be more willing to demand that you treat

yourself with respect and other people

do the same thing. And so that doesn't

mean that being cruel is better than not

being cruel. What it means is that being

able to be cruel and then not being

cruel is better than not being able to

be cruel. Because in the first case,

you're nothing but weak and naive. And

in the second case, you're dangerous,

but you have it under control. The most

dangerous man in the room is never ever

the loudest man in the room.

>> You often repeat is the most dangerous

person in the world is a man that is

broken and alone.

>> The most dangerous man is the one that

is comfortable being alone, being with

his own thoughts, learning how to become

powerful from your own flaws. See, you

will never really understand that power

until you have sat in silence with

nobody calling your phone, nobody, you

know, checking up on you, no woman, you

know, in your DMs, no type of

validation, just you and that open

space, silence. See, that's the part

that most men miss. They can't handle

that. That's why they stay stuck. That's

why they have an average physique.

That's why their finances is not on par

because they refuse to go through the

period that most men that have become

great had to sacrifice and go through.

See, they'll instead chase women,

distractions, parties,

anything to feel that that makes them

not feel invisible. Because when that

woman leaves and the world stops

clapping, most men collapse. They don't

know who they are without someone

watching, without someone being in their

life. I've been there, heartbroken,

broke, sitting in my car wondering if I

if I even mattered to anyone. And that

kind of silence will break a weak man

down to the ground. We are who we are

when nobody's watching.

If you want to know who you really are,

be on your own.

>> Go into the silence. Go and sit down

quietly

by yourself for 30 to 60 minutes. 30 to

60 minutes. Most people in our society

have never sat quietly for 30 to 60

minutes in their entire lives. Yet, I

will tell you this, this method works

100% of the time. that any problem that

you have, any difficulty, any challenge,

any goal that you want to accomplish, if

you'll go into the silence and sit

quietly and then listen to the still

small voice within, you will find that

at a certain point, probably at about 25

to 30 minutes, your mind will go

completely clear and then a flow of

ideas will start to flow into your mind.

You'll feel energy welling up inside

you. And at a precise moment as you sit

there in complete silence, no

cigarettes, no coffee, no music,

nothing, just complete silence. At a

particular moment, your mind will go

clear and wham, exactly the answer you

need will come at exactly the right

time.

>> Walk away from the 97%.

Don't talk like they talk. Don't act

like they act. Don't go where they go.

Don't specialize in what they specialize

in. Throw away the blameless they cling

to. Start you a new life. Switch gears,

switch language, switch ideas, switch

strategy. Start with the simplest of

disciplines. And don't be mean any of

these disciplines. The smallest of

disciplines starts the process of life

change. And if you'll invest in this

thing called discipline, you can have

whatever you wish. It's called the

beginning of a miracle. Most people

don't understand what it's like to to

really go for something. And to know

that the consequences of not doing that

are horrific. But the only way I could

be this person now is if I took that

chance when I was 21. When I was dead

broke and had my cars repossessed and

all that stuff, that's the only way you

you ever get where you want to go. You

have to you have to take a path that's

dangerous. And most people want to take

the safe path. And the safe path leaves

you stuck in quiet desperation almost

every time. The way you can change is

you have to put aside enough money to

give yourself a window. And then you

have to have a plan. And you have to

spend all your waking hours outside of

whatever [ __ ] job you do planning your

escape. And you have to come to the

realization very clearly that you [ __ ]

up and you got yourself stuck. So

whatever you're doing, you have to do it

like your life depends on