Does the Army Turn Boys Into Men？
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In this episode I talk about my experience in the Swedish army and how the army helped me develop into a better man. I also talk about the benefits of training in the gym and how it can help you develop as a person.
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Greetings my esteemed subscribers. Today I want to respond to the question
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does the army turn boys into men? Now if you want a longer take on it you can
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listen to my latest podcast episode 1 hour 17 minutes where I yeah I talk more
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about it basically. But I thought to make this video because I want to connect it
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to a few different videos I've made as of late. Now I will talk about my own
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experience and I will freely admit that before going into the army in 2009 I was
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an immature boy. At the end of my mandatory 11 months I was still an immature boy but
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a bit less of an immature boy and the seeds of maturity had been sown within my
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soul. So basically I've talked about habits, routines, momentum. Habits of
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course is the is everything. Habits. So in the army it's not necessarily that you
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gain a sudden revelation that transforms you immediately. It's rather that you
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get certain habits, certain ways of viewing things that will serve you well
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later on. So for example in my case I got a lot less egoistic before I went in and
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during the first part of the service I was quite egoistic. Then I understood that
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I am not the center of the universe and this is something it's a very good very
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nice insight to have. It's something that will help you in your development quite
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a bit and the more humble you are and I know that some people they don't like when
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I talk about how humble I am but you know in this type of situation where I have a
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bit more down-to-earth talk in some videos against kitchen I'm a bit more
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playful then yeah I'm not humble in that sense but what I mean with humility is
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that you value what you can bring to others you appreciate that you are not
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the center of the universe you appreciate that it's good for you to bring value to
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others and this is something that has served me very well on this channel for
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example that you you know you try to bring value to others you don't always
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put yourself in the center of attention and in the army of course you're just
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another uniform you're just another rifle you're just one part of a platoon which
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is just a part of something bigger as well so it's quite nice it's a quite nice
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revelation to have and something that over time it will make you approach life
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and relations with others in a different manner very useful very useful for me
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then when it comes to habits again this is not something that you will gain
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automatically when you the first day of your army service it's something that
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you will build up over a long time and that you can bring with you later on as
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well so the greatest gift I got from the army I would say is again something I
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mentioned in a recent video momentum a certain momentum that you train every
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day you have you know hard physical exercise every day and if you've done
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that for 11 months and you don't train anything after you will feel a bit hollow
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so you need to continue on that momentum with something else which in my case was
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gym training and and of course you can imagine how thankful I am for you know
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starting in the gym so basically I got out from the army in December started my
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great iron journey in January so a bit of downtime over Christmas then at it again
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using that momentum using that using those habits that I had acquired in the
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army to just continue along my path so basically it is a good time investment for
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you if you bring with you the teachings being in the army it's a complete waste of
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time if you're not going to apply the habits later on if you say to yourself
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that I never want to hear about discipline I'm never going to make my bed
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again I will never do anything any tough physical exercise again yeah then like
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with any education it's been a waste of time so it's all about you know
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developing certain habits a certain mindset in your soul that you can
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continue to develop later on so I wouldn't necessarily say that the army
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turns boys into men but it plants the seeds of maturity in a boy so he can
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continue to grow later on so if you want to plant the seed of a mighty oak or
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something like that yeah it starts as a seed at some point and then it grows up so
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same thing here that you can view it in the sense that if you make the most out
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of it the army can be seen as a place where you know the seeds of maturity are
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are grown now of course if you don't have the possibility of military service then
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try to find these habits in some other way in the gym for example so again the
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greatest gift I got from the army was the momentum and the habit that then led me to
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start training in the temple byron so if you don't have the opportunity to join the army
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for whatever reason you know as I said in the podcast I speak highly of the Swedish army I can't
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say the same thing for the army you have the opportunity to join but anyway if you don't have
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the opportunity to join any army start in the gym at least and try to you know have that as the
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start of your ascent so for me I could say that my journey both physical and metaphysical it began
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in the army because of the seeds of discipline and habits momentum and everything like that
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that I then translated successfully into gym training so if you can't do military service try to find those
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seeds somewhere else in the gym for example so anyway long story short does the army turn boys into men
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short answer perhaps not from one year to the next but it can sow the seeds of maturity that will
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enable a boy to mature later on so it's definitely a good investment if you have the the time and
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opportunity to do so I am certainly very thankful I got the opportunity to do so it was technically
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speaking mandatory but it was more the case that I got to do it than had to do it so anyway if you want
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a longer take do listen to the podcast episode now thank you for watching xxo boom