7 Things Every Young Man Needs to be Doing in 2018
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Summary
7 things every young man needs to be doing in 2018, and older men should probably be doing this as well. 1. Work out and lift weights. 2. Get your hands dirty. 3. Learn to talk to women. 4. Find a career that makes money. 5. Avoid skinner boxes. 6. Don t fuck up royally. 7. No marriage until the age of 25.
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Seven things every young man needs to be doing in 2018.
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And older men should probably be doing this as well.
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And you should probably be doing this regardless of what year you're watching this video in.
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Now, I talk a lot about the challenges out there.
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About, you know, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.
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The dating market is getting quite a bit more vicious.
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The futures of our countries aren't looking all that good.
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And unfortunately, with most of these things, there's nothing we can do about it.
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Okay, like we are just a whole bunch of individuals here.
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And the best we can do is surf on this tidal wave.
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These are seven things that if you do them, you will be in a better position tomorrow.
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You will be in the sort of position that you can actually succeed at a rigged game.
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And the seven things are, I'm going to list them out.
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Five, that's the one piece of advice that might not be applicable in 20 years, if anyone's even watching this then.
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Well, the simplest answer is because healthy body, healthy mind.
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Anybody that achieves success, anybody that's successful out there, they understand how to live in the moment.
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And part of being in good shape, part of lifting weights is learning how to be in the moment like that.
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Right now, we're far too intellectual as a culture.
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And when you're lifting weights, you are just lifting weights.
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You are maximizing your physical body, and you're cleaning up your mind at the same time.
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We're lucky enough to have such huge diets that we can afford to work out for fun, for leisure.
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And as for all the fringe benefits, better health, better mental clarity, more attractiveness to the opposite sex,
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those are all fringe benefits that go along with it.
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The main reason you do it is because you are a physical animal, and you need to engage the world physically.
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Getting your hands dirty is actually going out and doing something manly.
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It could be teaching yourself how to fix your own damn car.
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There's a lot of benefits that come along with actually getting your hands dirty.
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You actually learn some real skills doing this.
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But the real reason that you need to do it, as a young man, is that you are called to it.
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And it's far too easy these days to get an office job, air conditioning, or do something intellectual.
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You are going to hate yourself if that is your life.
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To feel like a man, you need to get your hands dirty.
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It doesn't mean you need to do this for the rest of your life.
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But you should have experience doing real physical labor.
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You should have done real physical labor at some point in your life.
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A year later, you will feel so much better about yourself.
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So many that have no idea how to talk to women.
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Either they're extremely nervous, which is ridiculous.
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Women want men that are strong mentally and physically who can protect them.
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when the gang members show up at your front door.
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when you hear women say they want a guy that treats them with respect,
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It doesn't mean that she wants you to respect her
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50-year-old women are the most fun to flirt with
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because they're not going to take it the wrong way.
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Learn how to be fun and flirtatious with women.
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like I'm going to work as a lawyer for this firm
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and I'll only make 40 grand a year for a few years
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the plans young men have are very, very stupid.
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way too many years of study and sacrifice for it.
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You know, do a two-year course and become a welder.
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If you can get money going for you when you're young
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I should have gone and done welding for a few years.
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Then I could have paid for history out of my pocket
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it was B.F. Skinner was the psychologist it was named after.
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And these rats would just keep hitting the G-spot button
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But we are surrounded by Skinner boxes these days.
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Now, I'm not saying you have to give up all fun, all pleasure.
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The most obvious example of this is video games.
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and then sitting down and eating the whole damn bag
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and maybe you're wasting a lot of time doing this.
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Okay, you're running on somebody else's treadmill.
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Now this is kind of the hard one to explain there.
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There's a great episode of Star Trek called Tapestry
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because he started a fight with a bunch of thugs
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But try not to take the really, really stupid ones.
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Don't sleep with the prostitute with no condom.
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And don't be looking for fights left, right, and center.
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but don't fuck up royally doing something stupid.
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I would prefer to say actually no marriage until 28.
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and you two are madly in love with one another.
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Obviously, there's the high rate of divorce these days.
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You know, this is why you have to be cautious about it.
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A bad marriage can seriously screw up your life.