Building Will Power. Having willpower isn’t a catch-all situation, once you attain it for one thing, it doesn’t mean you have it for everything else. I can wake up at 5 am and feel good. I can step into a cold shower and barely react, pick up a book and read for hours. The willpower to do all those has been developed. Each one, in turn.

What do the four cardinal virtues mean?

• Courage

• Temperance

• Justice

• Wisdom

I’m probably going to repeat myself in this post but I want to make sure you understand the points. Being a Stoic (with a capital S) means that you’re working to have better control of your emotions rather than letting them dictate your actions.

So this is where I start testing out some things to see how they work and how far I can manipulate them to work better for me. First Sleep: I used to sleep semi-normal, in bed by 23:00, waking up at 05:00. 6 hours has been my normal for over a decade now. But I want to see if I can get MORE awake time. Sleep less but train my body to get better quality sleep. Right now the aim is 5h 10m’s of sleep in a 24 hour period with Polyphasic sleep.

On January 7th, 2023, around 08:30 in the morning, I woke up and my face didn’t feel quite right. I took a photo of myself. This is what I saw. Hi my name is Jason. Don’t worry I’m not going to preach of the evils of Alcohol. But I am going to tell you why I finally decided to quit

Life is a constant evolution, a dance with change that shapes who we are and where we’re headed. This site is transforming once more. I don’t yet know where this journey will lead, but that’s the beauty of it—each shift brings us closer to where we’re meant to be.

So, no pearls of wisdom from Greene, Pressfield, Deida or Holiday today. It's just me and my brain trying to figure out what to post. Then it hit me like a 1.8kg slab of beef. Or rather; One Beef Flat Rib weighing in at .578kg One Prime Rib weighing in at 1.262kg I’ve been meaning to visit my local butcher for a while now…

If you’re not pushing yourself forward, you’ll achieve nothing, but if you push forward too fast you could derail and still achieve nothing. But by leaning forward, just enough to make the situation uncomfortable, into the unknown, so you have to learn new skills to progress, we have

This, frankly, has been one of the hardest Stoic ideologies to stick to. Sometimes, while working the whisky bar I can’t help but interject and correct someone on a piece of knowledge. It’s a dumb-fuckery thing to do I know but sometimes I can’t help myself. I am working on it.

And not everyone is going to like it. That fact is, I need this to make money. I need to escape bar work. Not because I hate the place or the people, Frankly I love those guys. I just hate bar work and getting home at 2 am. So, the new look.

This morning I read chapter four of ‘The Way of the Superior Man’ by David Deida. HERE It starts; “Know your real edge. It is honourable for a man to admit his fears, resistance, and edge of practice.“ “But it is dishonourable for him to lie to himself or others about his real place. He should pretend he is more enlightened than he is—

If you’re on ‘business X,’ you’ll be familiar with all the young up-start, 10k/month crowd. Those who say working every waking moment, seven days a week, is how to succeed because success isn’t enough. You have to crush your competition, and the only way to do that is to; WORK HARDER, LONGER, LOUDER…

Here’s my take on Men and expressing Joy. Frankly, if you want to see joy in a Real Man, obscure 80’s - 90’s movie references, power tools, cars, and being lazy on a Sunday morning with his woman. Men typically don’t express themselves the same way women do. While women express their feelings and emotions on their sleeves, Men don’t. Why?

Men today are being told they aren’t emotional enough or they should show more of their feminine side, frankly that sounds like an oxymoron. More women are displaying a more masculine side (the girl boss), which is fine and progressive. Yet when Men behave per their nature it is considered toxic. Why?

Let’s try on an MAJOR direction change. Let’s see what happens when I talk (and make videos) about what it is to be a man. Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of crap on what it is or means to be a real man, from leftist, DEI, fourth-wave feminist and Right-wing red pill morons out to make a buck on your insecurities.

I think you can guess where this story is going. The object of his obsession becomes the butterfly. This is what happens when obsession gets out of control. Sure it’s an extreme example and thankfully rare. So, is there a good kind of obsession? Because I’m a self-absorbed narcissist let’s talk about Me. I have recently become obsessed with a Poem.