Post: #1

This is probably my biggest problem. All I do with my free time is read blogs about lifestyle, women etc but I almost never go out and do it because I'm not present in the moment.

Post: #2

(12-10-2013 09:26 AM)Every10GivesMeA10 Wrote:  This is probably my biggest problem. All I do with my free time is read blogs about lifestyle, women etc but I almost never go out and do it because I'm not present in the moment.

Awareness of the problem is the first part of the solution. Go out!

Post: #3

Schedule a time to read each day.

But who am I to talk!

Post: #4

Only read blogs/forums on legitimate down time.

In a cab to xyz location, sitting on a conference call that doesn't matter etc.

Spend the rest of your time chasing cash and ass.

I've picked up a lot reading online, you just gotta filter the bullshit useless advice and the real advice.

Overall blogs and forums are better because they are not written by mainstream idiots

Post: #5

Just be careful of over analyzing shituations out in the Mainstream and don't let on on how much you know. 48 Rules of Power made an obvious impression but applying it consistently is a whole other beast.

Post: #6

I totally feel ya on this. I've realized that when I spend the most time reading blogs/forums it's when I'm the least busy. Essentially you have too much free time on your hands. If you were doing manual labor 12 hours a day I doubt you would be doing this.

Pick up hobbies, or do things like lift weights (which based on your avi you already do), read, or perhaps even start a website or online business. Some kind of project, or campaign as Roosh would call it:

http://www.rooshv.com/what-is-your-campaign

Post: #7

It would help if there were good Red Pill podcasts out there, to get entertaining and useful info and perspectives while doing something else like driving.
I listen to podcasts on other topics when I work out, and now listening to music in the gym seems monotonous by comparison.

Post: #8

(12-10-2013 09:26 AM)Every10GivesMeA10 Wrote:  This is probably my biggest problem. All I do with my free time is read blogs about lifestyle, women etc but I almost never go out and do it because I'm not present in the moment.

I need to follow my own advice on this too as I've slipped back into a forum/social media addiction these past couple weeks and it's ruined my schedule.

Restrict your entertainment reading, forums, and social media to weekends. I was doing this and it made ALL the difference. Aside from kicking the booze I think it had more of an effect on my life than anything else.

You might want to restrict your weekend time to by setting limits, but if you're like me, you'll spend all that freed up time doing productive stuff and feel like getting out to have some fun when the weekend hits, so you won't find much time to burn on the blogs and forum.

Post: #9

Sometimes. But masturbation is fucking awesome. Just don't make it your whole life.

Post: #10

i think theres something to be said about reading a forum or blogs being a replacement for having actual discussion and social interaction with other human beings. hell, even people watching has been replaced with lurking forums.

Post: #11

Take a break from the manosphere, chief. This shit's addictive.

Post: #12

Reading blogs or forums such as this one has changed the lives of countless men for the better. In some cases it's probably saved their lives.

And this is true not only because of the purely practical advice you can find about women, game, lifestyle or what have you, though of course that's a big part of it. Just as important is finding other men of kindred spirit with whom to share thoughts, laughs, and war stories. The interest, camaraderie and humor that you can find online in places like this one can be every bit as valuable and as soul-saving as the greatest friendships that exist "in real life".

I know for a fact that for many guys who post here, kicking back and shooting the shit on the boards can be the very best thing in their day -- even if they went out and got satisfyingly laid that very day. Pussy can be great for pleasure and I guess "validation" if that's your thing, but it has absolutely nothing to offer in terms of humor, to name but one terrible lack. How many guys here have gotten a laugh out of something they saw on the forum that represents their very best moment of their day, if not their week? Many.

So no, it's not "mental masturbation". And it's addictive for the very good reason that human beings have a brain and are irresistibly drawn to the crazy and unprecedented bonanza of information, interest and entertainment that is the internet. And it is to the credit of men that the unfathomably vast and deep ocean of reality that is represented by the modest name of "forums and blogs" holds an endless fascination for them that is not reducible to the merely utilitarian aspects of the advice one can get about this or that subject.

Now -- everyone still has a practical life to live, work to do, tail to chase, books to read etc. So if you're finding that your time online is not allowing you to do anything else, obviously it has to be curtailed somewhat, just like anything else. It's pretty simple.

But please, don't make spending time online another item on the apparently infinite list of things we are supposed to feel guilty about. It is a privilege to live at a time when such a magical thing as the internet exists, and one would be a blind fool and an ingrate if one did not devote serious time and attention to something of such great and almost incomprehensible importance.

Post: #13

This stuff is worthless if you don't try applying.

Just do it.