Order of Man - May 24, 2019


No Virtue in Victimhood | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES


Episode Stats

Length

27 minutes

Words per Minute

178.08469

Word Count

4,900

Sentence Count

300

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

What does it mean to be a man? What does it take to become a man, and how can we reclaim and restore masculinity in a society that is increasingly dismissive of what it means to be one? In this episode, Ryan talks about what he believes is the root cause of the lack of masculinity in our society, and why we should all be striving to be better men.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly chart
00:00:05.000 your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.
00:00:10.440 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who
00:00:17.240 you are. This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,
00:00:22.800 you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Nickler,
00:00:27.420 and I am the host and the founder of this podcast, The Order of Man, and also the movement
00:00:31.900 that is Order of Man. The movement to reclaim and restore masculinity in a society that is
00:00:37.820 increasingly dismissive of what it means to be a man. Everywhere we turn, it's undermined,
00:00:43.380 it's mocked, it's ridiculed, it's belittled, and it's been attempted to be redefined. But
00:00:49.120 my objective is not to redefine masculinity. It's to reclaim and restore masculinity to
00:00:55.240 its rightful place in society and help us step up. Each and every one of us as men
00:00:59.060 in every capacity in which we operate, whether it's a father, a husband, a business owner,
00:01:04.660 a community leader, a friend, a brother, a colleague, a coach, a mentor, I don't know,
00:01:09.640 whatever it looks like for you, I want to give you the tools and the guidance and the direction
00:01:12.920 and the resources and everything else that you might need to step up more fully in this role and
00:01:17.280 in this life and into the calling of man. So with that said, today you're listening to your
00:01:22.680 Friday field notes. This is my thoughts from throughout the week. We've also got our interview
00:01:27.000 show, which is released every Wednesday where we are fielding questions from the order and also from
00:01:33.760 our exclusive brotherhood, the iron council, which if you're interested in banding with us,
00:01:37.720 you can check out at order of man.com slash iron council. And then we've got our interview show.
00:01:43.180 I'm interviewing some incredible, incredible men, David Goggins, Jocko Willink, Grant Cardone,
00:01:49.080 Andy Frisilla, Tim Kennedy, Dakota Meyer. I mean, you can go back and look and see that we've had
00:01:54.680 some absolutely incredible, incredible human beings on the podcast. And it's my goal to
00:01:59.420 distill some of their information and knowledge and experience down to practical tips to help you
00:02:05.120 excel again as a, as a man. So with that said, let's just jump right into the Friday field notes.
00:02:10.520 Don't have a whole lot of announcements. We're in transition right now. You guys know that probably
00:02:13.800 if you've been listening for any amount of time. So we are in limbo as far as announcements and
00:02:19.280 activities and events. I will say that we're going to have something the end of July to middle of
00:02:25.720 August. As soon as I get to Maine, I'm going to give you the dates and we're going to put together
00:02:29.900 something very, very special. So I want to make sure to have you out there. So if you're not
00:02:33.780 subscribed, make sure you subscribe because I'm going to announce that here in the podcast. And I
00:02:38.020 don't want you to miss that. All right. That's the only announcement. Now let's get into this
00:02:42.440 discussion. As I was thinking about what I wanted to talk with you about this morning,
00:02:45.940 I was poking around on social media and poking around in the news and the media and everything
00:02:49.580 else. And I'm seeing this disturbing trend. And I think you guys probably have recognized it as
00:02:54.780 well. And it's this, it's this race to the bottom, this pathetic attempt to make ourselves the victim
00:03:02.700 of every circumstance and every interaction and every person and every government and every
00:03:07.280 institution and our old employer and our old girlfriend or whoever, or our parents or our
00:03:13.500 upbringing or the president or the economy. And we make ourselves the victim of these circumstances.
00:03:21.260 And what we end up doing is undermining our own ability to improve and thrive and grow and expand
00:03:29.740 and excel and really be all that we're capable of being. I cannot understand for the life of me
00:03:36.920 why so many men feel like they want to play the victim, feel like that somehow there's,
00:03:44.020 there's virtue in it, that it's virtuous to be the victim. And it's not all of us have been a victim
00:03:50.800 probably at some point. I'm going to talk a little bit about that, how you can overcome that,
00:03:54.440 but being a victim in and of itself is not virtuous, overcoming challenge and overcoming trial
00:04:02.440 and obstacles and hurdles and barriers and the things that get in our way. That is virtuous because
00:04:09.040 that requires commitment and sacrifice and dedication and all of the things that you as a man are trying
00:04:16.620 to improve upon in your life. So we're racing to the bottom. We're not acting virtuously.
00:04:23.040 We're, it's the antithesis of virtue. You should be climbing out of the hole that you have found
00:04:28.800 yourself in and maybe more accurately dug yourself into. It's your responsibility to dig yourself out.
00:04:37.420 You got yourself there. Now dig yourself out. That is virtuous. And not only is it virtuous,
00:04:43.520 it's going to help you accomplish what you want to accomplish. Because as you're crawling your way
00:04:49.500 out of the hole, out of the pit of despair that you found yourself in, you're going to develop
00:04:53.860 some mental fortitude. You're going to develop some emotional resiliency. You're going to develop
00:05:01.120 some, some physical strength, some hard skills, also some soft skills that are going to help you
00:05:08.260 salvage the relationship with your wife. They're going to help you excel in your career or launch
00:05:14.460 that business of your own. They're going to help you connect with your kids. They're going to help
00:05:18.520 you lose weight. They're going to help you achieve your greatest ambitions and desires. And if we
00:05:25.320 continue down this pathetic, pathetic trend of racing to the bottom of the barrel, we will find
00:05:35.400 ourselves wanting in life. We will be unsatisfied. We will be resentful and bitter and have animosity
00:05:45.560 towards other individuals and institutions and the government and frankly ourselves, which will lead
00:05:51.260 us into a spiral of depression and potentially even suicidal thoughts. So guys, we can do better
00:05:59.800 than this. We have to do better than this for ourselves. And we also have to encourage others
00:06:04.680 to hold themselves accountable, to take some responsibility in their lives for what they've
00:06:10.600 created themselves. Now I'm not so ignorant or delusional to believe that some people haven't
00:06:17.040 been dealt a bad hand. Certainly we all have in a way, we all have our own trials and obstacles and
00:06:24.680 setbacks and failures that we need to overcome. And we can, some of that we've created ourselves
00:06:30.360 and others. It's, it's the hand that we've been dealt and we have to learn to overcome these things.
00:06:36.840 And that's specifically what I want to talk with you about, because I don't want to see any more men
00:06:40.920 in society be a victim and pretend like they're a victim, I should say, and really throw themselves
00:06:48.640 at the mercy of some external source. And that is the problem with playing the victim. We might get
00:06:55.560 some temporary accolades from other individuals who would encourage us to be victims, but you've got
00:07:00.660 to ask yourself why, why are these people encouraging you to be a victim? Well, I think for a couple of
00:07:07.380 different reasons. Number one, you're more easily manipulated when you are weak and cowardly and
00:07:12.800 pathetic and subservient to some other individual or organization or institution. So we are encouraged
00:07:20.360 to be victims. We are encouraged to be weak so we can be a pawn in other people's or other
00:07:28.180 organizations lives. I don't know about you, but I'm interested in being a sovereign man, somebody
00:07:34.940 who's bold and strong and capable and actually virtuous somebody who is not beholden to another
00:07:43.600 financial institution or an employer or another individual or the outside economy or any external
00:07:51.100 source only beholden to me because I set the standard for myself. So the question is,
00:07:58.060 how do we do this? How do we become less victimized? How do we step into the role of
00:08:05.140 victor, if you will, rather than victim? I've got five things I want to talk with you about here
00:08:10.020 with exactly how to do that. And I want to share a couple of little insights here. As I was thinking
00:08:15.080 about this, one person that came to mind in particular, as I was thinking about who is not
00:08:20.600 a victim and where I learned to overcome some tremendous odds is my mother. And guys, I know you
00:08:26.020 probably have similar experiences with parents or grandparents or friends or people that you look
00:08:31.480 up to, but this woman is one of the most talented, strongest, hardworking, dedicated, committed
00:08:39.880 people that I know. And it would be easy for her through her upbringing or through her unfortunate
00:08:49.180 series of events with regards to her husband and stepfathers that came into my life for her to feel
00:08:55.360 like she was the victim. She could have accepted handouts and she could have looked for opportunities
00:09:00.360 for other people to give her things that she didn't earn on her own, but she was committed to providing
00:09:06.400 her own path and her own way and doing that for us. And through that, she taught us a great lesson
00:09:12.360 that it's nobody else's responsibility to handle your stuff. And this is where a lot of men get hung
00:09:19.620 up. For some reason, a lot of guys believe, for example, that it's their wife's job to make sure
00:09:25.680 they're happier, fulfilled, or that it's their employer's job to make sure they have meaningful
00:09:30.960 employment, or it's the government's job to provide benefits that will pay for health costs or minimum
00:09:39.820 wage requirements so that they can have a standard of living. What a pathetic way to live. I realize
00:09:46.000 we all are in different situations at different times and there are seasons to our life. And
00:09:49.700 sometimes we trip and stumble and there's certainly a place for these things. But if you are perpetually
00:09:54.220 living off of what other people are giving to you, because you feel like you've been handed some
00:09:59.140 sort of injustice, you are living less capable than you can. You are settling. You are living in
00:10:07.920 mediocrity and complacency. I don't want to live that way, which means that I'm going to have to
00:10:13.140 sacrifice and I'm going to have to be committed and I'm going to have to be dedicated and I'm going
00:10:17.660 to have to get beat up. And I'm going to have to, as Theodore Roosevelt says, get myself in the arena
00:10:22.480 and get in the game and get in the fight and get marred by the blood and the sweat and the dust.
00:10:29.560 That's our job as men. So how do we do this? All right, let's break this down. Number one, guys,
00:10:33.720 you got to let your excuses expire. You have to let them expire. A lot of, you know, my story
00:10:38.980 because I've shared it here in the podcast and other places, but I grew up without a father in
00:10:43.160 my life. My dad was out of the picture by the time I was three years old. There was glimpses and
00:10:47.900 moments of a father son relationship. I'd go see him in our summer break and we played Legos and
00:10:54.540 he'd cook for us and we had glimpses, but ultimately he wasn't in my life. I had a stepfather come into my
00:11:02.940 life when I was eight, nine years old and another opportunity for glimpses. We would do Pinewood
00:11:09.540 Derby cars together. We'd go to sprint car races and we had such a great time, but ultimately he was
00:11:14.560 an alcoholic. So he just, he, he wasn't there. He wasn't present. He wasn't available the way a
00:11:21.420 father should be. Then I had another stepfather come into my life who was very, very talented and
00:11:27.020 taught me a lot about business and mental toughness, taught me a lot about sports, which I attribute a
00:11:32.920 lot of my success to, but ultimately he was verbally and emotionally abusive. Most of that was directed
00:11:40.860 at my mom and my sister. These were the examples I had of what it meant to be a man. 10 years ago,
00:11:47.360 I go through a separation with my wife. And as I'm going through that separation with my wife,
00:11:52.320 I blamed a lot of it on her initially. And sure, she had a part to play, but I didn't accept
00:11:57.660 responsibility for myself. And I also caught myself saying, because she left with my one-year-old son,
00:12:02.460 I caught myself saying, well, I didn't have a dad. I didn't have a role model. I didn't have an
00:12:09.980 example to model in my youth. And that's why I'm in this situation. What complete BS. Did that play
00:12:19.100 a factor? Absolutely. But I'm a grown ass man who's looking back on his childhood and blaming things that
00:12:27.140 were beyond my control on other people and other circumstances. When at the time I was fully
00:12:33.260 capable of making my own decisions and carving my own path. And yet I felt like it was somebody else's
00:12:40.980 fault. Guys, we're all dealt. And I said this earlier, all of us have been dealt a hand, some
00:12:46.560 better or worse than others, but there's nothing you can do about it. And even if you do have a bad
00:12:52.400 hand or go through a bad experience or go through something that wasn't your fault, you've got to
00:12:57.360 let that stuff expire. Now, I don't know what the expiration date is, but I'd tell you is that when
00:13:01.960 you're capable of making your own decisions and carving your own path and behaving in the way that
00:13:06.620 you want to, when you have some autonomy and you have some sovereignty over your own life, that's when
00:13:11.600 your excuses expire. So stop drawing on what happened five or 10 or 15 or 30 years ago.
00:13:18.460 Realize that what happened, happened, figure out a way to learn and grow and expand from it and write
00:13:24.760 that off as a lesson and nothing more, not an excuse, but a lesson in how not to show up,
00:13:30.640 how not to perform, and then do it in a way that will help you thrive and excel moving forward.
00:13:35.780 That's number one. Number two, realize that you are a product of your choices. That is it.
00:13:42.320 Not a product of your environment, not a product of your thoughts, not a product of your desires,
00:13:50.040 but a product of your choices. It's what you do that defines you as a man. It's not necessarily
00:13:56.940 your anatomy. Your anatomy makes you male, but not a man. It's not what you really, really want
00:14:01.680 really, really bad. It's what you do. And if you found yourself in a situation where maybe your
00:14:08.260 your marriage is on the rocks, maybe you're not excelling in your career as much as you'd like,
00:14:14.160 maybe there's some alienation or some distance mentally and emotionally between you and your
00:14:19.420 children. Maybe you're 50 pounds overweight and you're running against some medical conditions.
00:14:25.640 That's your fault. That's your fault. I know that's not comfortable, but reality is very rarely
00:14:34.020 comfortable. And if you really want to grow, and I think you do, because you wouldn't be listening
00:14:38.060 to this podcast, if that wasn't the case, then you've got to look in the mirror and all of your
00:14:43.960 circumstances and say, I created this. I created this. Now, some people will hear that and think
00:14:53.500 that's discouraging. And it might be, especially if you found yourself in a position you don't want to
00:14:58.500 be in. But I would say you can take hope in that thought, because if you created the environment you're
00:15:04.280 in right now, guess what else you can create? A new reality, a new way of living, a new way of
00:15:11.320 thinking, and ultimately new choices and new behaviors and new actions, which will inevitably
00:15:16.940 produce a different result. But you can't produce something different if you don't know what created
00:15:23.980 the environment and the circumstance in which you find yourself in the first place. You did it.
00:15:29.560 Yes. You had some outside help. Yes. There were some things that influenced those choices and
00:15:37.160 decisions, but that's why I put that your excuses expire as number one, because they do. And now that
00:15:43.700 you're a man and you're an adult and you're capable of making your own choices, you have a responsibility
00:15:49.560 and obligation to do so. Otherwise you forfeit your right to complain about how shitty your life is.
00:15:56.740 If you're going to complain about how rough your life is and how you're not making money and your
00:16:02.480 marriage is falling apart and your kids don't respect you and your boss isn't giving you a raise,
00:16:06.460 then fix that shit. Fix it. Find other men who are excelling, who are thriving, who are succeeding,
00:16:12.240 who are doing things that you want to do. Reach out to them, connect with them, model their behavior,
00:16:17.680 be influenced positively by them and start making some different choices in your life. But it requires,
00:16:23.060 as I said, point number two, for you to realize that you're simply a product of your choices.
00:16:27.680 People will say, Oh, I'm a product of my environment. Well, you put yourself in that
00:16:30.380 environment, put yourself in a new environment, mentally, physically, emotionally, relationally,
00:16:37.700 spiritually, put yourself in a new environment, make new choices, and you will yield different
00:16:43.500 results. That's point number two. Point number three, we got to stop living this substandard life.
00:16:48.820 All right. You're expected and encouraged to be mediocre, to be average. When I went to basic
00:17:00.800 training in, I believe it was in 1999, I went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. If you're an artillery guy,
00:17:08.420 give me a shout out. Went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Before I went to basic training, I was fortunate enough
00:17:16.500 because I was in the national guard to be able to drill with, with my unit in Cedar city, Utah.
00:17:22.060 And as I drilled, I had some, some of the section chiefs and the sergeants telling me
00:17:26.860 how to navigate successfully basic training. And one of the things they said is they said,
00:17:32.220 just blend in, just blend in. That's what you want you to do. You just blend in. You don't stick
00:17:36.820 out for doing well. You don't fall behind. You just run with the middle of the pack. Now I understand
00:17:41.000 what they're saying. I get it. You don't want to stand out necessarily for the wrong reasons,
00:17:46.400 but at the same time, what a horrible way to live. What a pathetic way to live. What a substandard
00:17:53.300 way to live. Why would I hold back? Why would I deliberately and intentionally make myself
00:18:00.040 less capable than I'm really capable of being simply because I don't want to stand out. And what's
00:18:07.580 the problem with standing out? Anyways, you, what you make other people feel uncomfortable.
00:18:12.780 That's why people want you to blend in. They don't want you to excel. It's that crab in the
00:18:17.960 bucket metaphor where the crabs start crawling on each other. And one's about to get up and the
00:18:22.020 other one reaches up and pulls its leg down and brings it back into the bucket guys. Don't live
00:18:26.500 a substandard life. I'll give you another little story here. Uh, we were, we're wrapping up our
00:18:31.600 baseball season for my two oldest boys. And I was coaching first base for my, uh, for my oldest son.
00:18:37.920 And the first baseman of the other team is a very, very good athlete. And he's a kid that we had on
00:18:43.340 the team last year. And I said to him, Hey, um, I need you to play 80% today. Just joking with him.
00:18:48.940 I need you to play 80% today. And he looks at me right in the eye, dead serious. This is 11 year old
00:18:54.520 boy, dead serious, right into my eyes. And he says, I don't play at 80%. I played a hundred percent.
00:19:02.160 And I, man, that stung that had so much impact from an 11 year old boy who realizes that he doesn't
00:19:11.000 lower the standard so that other people feel more comfortable about their own miserable existence.
00:19:18.200 I play my life for me. You should be playing your life for you. If you're lowering the bar to make
00:19:25.980 other people feel comfortable or for you to blend in so you don't stand out, what are you leaving on
00:19:31.940 the table? What are you teaching your kids? What type of marriage are you going to have? If you're
00:19:36.680 playing weak, what type of, of business? How's your relationship with your clients? If you're living
00:19:43.620 for other people, that's point number three, it's easy. It's expected. It's encouraged in a lot of
00:19:49.600 ways. Don't fall prey to living by somebody else's standard. Raise the bar, elevate yourself, make
00:19:55.680 yourself more capable. And as that young man told me, play it a hundred percent, not 80 because somebody
00:20:01.380 else feels threatened by who you are and what you're capable of doing. Number four, after action
00:20:07.060 review guys, I know I've talked about this. It's like beating a dead horse here. You've got to do
00:20:11.540 your after action reviews because when you do an after action review, and I'll explain this here in
00:20:16.380 a minute for those of you who may not have heard it. When you do the after action review, you're
00:20:22.040 going to see objectively where you fall. You're going to see what you've done well, what you haven't done
00:20:26.800 well, what you got done, what you didn't get done. And most importantly, what you're going to do moving
00:20:31.980 forward, what you're going to do next time in order to ensure that you put yourself in a better
00:20:38.160 situation. The after action review is five simple questions. Number one, what did I accomplish?
00:20:44.820 Number two, what did I not accomplish? I set out to do something. I didn't get it done.
00:20:49.220 That's what I didn't accomplish. Number three, what did I do? Well, where did you thrive?
00:20:54.000 What skillset did you develop? What did you harness or implement that helped you accomplish what you
00:21:00.420 did? Number four, what did I not do so well? What are your weaknesses? What do you need to shore up?
00:21:06.260 Where do you need to improve? Be real about this. Be truthful about this. And number five, what am I
00:21:11.560 going to do well moving forward? Take these questions to heart, write them down, document them,
00:21:18.560 go through the after action review after every engagement, encounter, conversation, podcast, task,
00:21:25.460 project, whatever day, and get those done because that's going to give you an objective analysis or
00:21:31.780 observation or look into how you're showing up and how you're performing. This is how you strip away
00:21:37.620 the victimhood mentality. You take it upon your shoulders by asking yourself, what can you do to
00:21:43.080 fix it to be better moving forward? Which leads me into point number five. And this is the one I want
00:21:47.920 to wrap up with today. It's, it's a very stoic thought. And that thought is focus on the controllable
00:21:56.000 focus on the controllable. There are all sorts of variables and all sorts of little activities and
00:22:02.800 circumstances and conversations and people and interactions that happen on a daily basis that are
00:22:08.480 completely beyond your control. And what we've been conditioned to do is to focus on the most trivial
00:22:15.840 of nonsense and get hung up and get hung up on things that don't apply and things that we can't
00:22:23.420 change. Let that stuff go. It's difficult because you don't always like the way things turn out.
00:22:31.480 It is difficult to let go. But if you can realize that what you might be dealing with is beyond your
00:22:37.100 control and let that slide off your back. For example, controlling other individuals. I can't tell
00:22:43.000 you how many questions and emails and texts and conversations I get from people who say, how can I
00:22:48.140 change my wife? How can I get my boss to do this? My kids don't respect me. How do I get them to
00:22:54.720 respect me? Or how do I motivate them? Guys, that's uncontrollable. You can influence it, but you can't
00:23:02.280 control it. You don't get to dictate what other people do. You want to change behavior in other
00:23:07.960 people, turn it around and change behavior in yourself. Because when you do that, you're now focusing
00:23:14.400 on the controllable. The things that are within your power to influence, to wield as a tool, as a
00:23:20.640 weapon in order to accomplish what you want to accomplish. So go into the gym, be a man of your
00:23:27.480 word, eat right, exercise, learn how to communicate, learn how to cast vision, develop a skill set, pick up
00:23:36.920 a new hobby. And generally, like I've said before, make yourself a project. Make yourself a project.
00:23:43.440 When you say, how can I get my wife to do blank, fill in the blank, ask yourself, what can I do
00:23:49.100 to be more influential so that she will want to do that voluntarily? How can I get my boss to respect
00:23:57.520 me? You can be more respectable. How can I get my kids to, to, to listen to me? You can be worth
00:24:05.400 listening to. How can I get my wife's support on this new business venture? You can prove that
00:24:11.400 you're worthy of the support. You don't change other people directly. I should say, you can
00:24:18.480 indirectly change them through influence by becoming more influential. And when you focus
00:24:24.620 on the controllable, like yourself, these other little pieces of the puzzle start to line up.
00:24:30.820 It's not complicated guys. It's not complex. It's also not easy. It takes work and it takes effort.
00:24:37.480 And it takes years and years of trying and failing and moving forward and stepping back and messing up
00:24:44.240 and having to apologize, but you can do it. We can change. We can improve ourselves. We can make
00:24:52.800 ourselves more capable. We can reject and be repulsed by the idea that somehow being a victim
00:25:00.960 in society is what we should all strive to be. I don't want to be a victim. It's easy. It's really
00:25:08.520 easy. It's the path of least resistance. People are encouraging us to do it, but reject it, dismiss it.
00:25:16.800 You want something better in your life? You've got to dismiss the idea that somehow somebody or
00:25:21.980 something did something to you. And the reason that you're where you're at is because it's somebody
00:25:25.660 or someone else's fault. It's not. It's yours. It's not meant to be discouraging. It's meant to
00:25:31.440 be hopeful because as I said earlier, if it's your fault and you put yourself in this situation and you
00:25:36.000 did, then you're fully capable of crawling yourself out. And that's what I want to see. And that's what
00:25:43.220 I do see. I'll say this as I part today. I see you guys crawling your way out of the despair
00:25:50.560 in the pit that you dug for yourself. I see this every day on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter
00:25:56.620 and everywhere else that you guys are tagging me. I see what you're capable of. I'm inspired by the
00:26:03.000 stories of redemption of you fixing things that you've messed up. It's pretty inspiring to watch
00:26:11.240 and see and to hear. And it helps me step up more fully in my life as well. And I want to thank you
00:26:18.520 for that. So on that note, guys, make sure you tag me. If you've got a story to share or you've
00:26:24.620 redeemed yourself to some degree, or you're climbing out of this pit of despair, or you're learning to
00:26:30.180 take the responsibility and accountability upon your shoulders, which is where it lies, not anybody
00:26:35.620 else's tag me and let me know what's happening. Let me know about your progress in the gym. Let me
00:26:41.280 know about the new hobby you picked up. Let me know about how you, how you rekindle the relationship
00:26:46.300 with your wife. Let me know about that new connection with your son or daughter. These are
00:26:50.820 the stories I want to hear about. These are the stories I'm influenced by. And of course the stories
00:26:54.820 that other men are influenced by as well. So guys, I'll leave you there. There is no virtue in victimhood
00:27:00.680 become the victor, become the champion, the hero of your own journey. If you will, I know you can do it.
00:27:07.200 I'm proud and honored to be standing shoulder to shoulder in the battle to reclaim our sovereignty
00:27:11.360 and step away from and be disgusted and repulsed by the idea of victimhood. All right, guys, go out
00:27:17.600 there, take action, become the man you are meant to be. Thank you for listening to the Order of Man
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