Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep Get Sheared Podcast, home of people, politics of popular culture. I'm your host, Austin Creed. You know, I'm doing this show. That's there's an audio only show today. I did one earlier today, but. You know, there's, I have a little bit of time before my next class and I'm sitting here and we ever deal with personal things and you need to find a way to deal with your own personal problems. That's me right now because I guarantee you I'm not alone with the situation I'm dealing with now. I will not go into specifics to too much of an extent. However, what I will do is I want to make a statement and I want you to really think to yourself what it could mean to your life. Here's what I want to tell you when in. Doubt. Walk away. When in doubt, have the nerve have the authority over yourself to not compromise yourself and walk away. There's a saying in business that the person with the ability to walk away. Is in charge of the negotiation because the customer can always walk away. It's the person who's trying to get you to trying to sell you something. Trying to get something from you who cannot walk away. But you, as the person who's being sold to or having something pitched to you, you have the ability to walk away, and that that is power, the ability to walk away. Now I apply this mainly to relationships as well as to business, because to me they're one in the same. You know, and I've been called the sociopath for saying that, you know what? Maybe I am a sociopath. I I don't know. I don't really care what I do care about is telling you the truth is how I see it. I see almost everything, if not everything in life is being a transaction now to me that in no way cheapens its value. However, to some people they don't like that they think it's icky makes their skin crawl a little bit. They don't like it. Well, I hate that you don't like it. That's unfortunate, but it does not make my statement less true. In fact, if anything and gives it validity because you are reacting to it, you tend to not react to things that are not true unless they offend you, in which case you tend to react very emotionally. You know when we're emotional. We make the worst choices you could possibly imagine. You can write that one down. Emotional choices are often the emptiest or worst choices we have. Make we're not thinking about the long term. We're not thinking about how this is going to affect the future. We're not thinking about our next step after that. We're just thinking about how we're feeling in that moment and then we react. We're not proactive. We're reactive. If you are ever in a situation where you're about to make an emotional decision, you someone's trying to pressure you trying to put you up against the wall to where you have to choose a split of the moment decision. Walk away. Do not let someone get one over on you. Do not let them put you up against the wall. You need to step back even if someone sends you a text. Where you are mad, you wanna react to it? You wanna? You wanna go off? You wanna set the record straight? You gotta back up. Back up. Give yourself space. Whether it's sometimes you need a day, sometimes you need an hour, sometimes you need a couple days to say no. No, no. I am not responding to that. No, I gotta give myself some breathing room. And some space to collect myself. I would highly encourage you to do that because it is so easy to go in there, guns blazing, firing from the hip, ready to go Cowboys and Indians on people. Let me tell you something. You are gonna go in the bar, guns blaze, and you gonna find out you're in the wrong spot. And then all of a sudden you have to pay all the property damage, all the booze damage, all the personal damages, everything, and then you're going to think, oh, yeah, that wasn't worth it. That was not worth it at all. My friends, all analogies are sign when it comes down to it, you need to be able to not think too dimensionally. You know I have this problem with my brother. I love my brother. The problem is he doesn't see things the way I see it, and that's not inherently a bad thing. The problem lies with the fact that he, like many other men, especially men in our society, they're so quick to be violent. They're so quick to respond because it's quote, though masculine thing to do. Now, do you know what the most masculine thing is? Being indifferent, being stoic, being non reactive. That's masculine. Punching somebody in the face because they said something and like, that's not masculine. Poking on somebody because they they're doing something you don't like, that's not masculine. Responding emotionally to something you don't like that is not, let me repeat, is not masculine. Reacting in an emotion is not masculine. You know there are different male archetypes that young men tend to want to. Imitate and be like because they think it's masculine and they want to be cool. One of those is the pimp the pimp archetype of the Dude who gets his girls in line. He he backhands people, he wears jewelry. He wears a hat. He's cool. What? You know, you listen to songs like pimp, you know, pimp from $0.50. You listen to dudes and the the hip hop community and the and the R&B community talking about big pimping, pimp this pimp that I'm pimping, he's pimping. She's pimping your grandma, pimping everybody. Pimping. You got guys like a got a pimp named Slick Back in The Boondocks, emulating the stereotype, but when you realize it. Reacting emotionally to to women, to external circumstances, that's not masculine. You know, that's masculine. Laying down your terms. And if somebody acts goofy, you just walk away. Don't get mad, don't say whacked out stuff. Don't get physical, just walk away. You would be shocked to know how quickly people get in line when you walk away. Just like a salesman who's trying to sell you something. The moment you start to walk away, something goes down by 20%. Fifteen percent, 30%. See how that works? Because they don't want to lose you and you calling their bluff. And if they don't care, then guess what. You just saved yourself time. You saved yourself energy. You saved yourself your bad attitude. You saved yourself everything. And you're winning. Again, it comes down to what you value too many people value companionship over their own personal freedom. Silence. My job as a man and your job as a as a person is not to make someone else happy. That is not your job, not my job. That's not anyone else's job. Your happiness is your business. Make let's make sure it's legal now, but as long as it's legal. It's your business, but do not do something goofy like say that someone else is responsible here for your happiness, cause you're giving that person power over your life, your emotional state. You're giving them power over your team, your time, energy, attitude and money. Or you can even add mindset on there if you want to. There are. Different I could use different. Terms for that for team, but I'm telling you, bro, if you want to be the best version of yourself, you have to win the spiritual and mental battle, not the physical one. Physical warfare is the lowest form of combat. I believe that that is what I believe, son Sue. Said something similar. I doubt it was verbatim what I just said. But my friends, if you want to be the best version of yourself, you need to realize how much power there is in walking away. So when you're in doubt of whether to double down or walk, just walk, dude. Because the people who want to be on your team, the people who want to do the things that you're into and I want to be on your program, they go and get in line. They got gonna go back on their word. They're not gonna make stuff up. They're not gonna get in your way. They're gonna get down to business and do what they say they're gonna do or do what you agreed to, and if they? Don't do that. Don't get mad. Don't act goofy. Don't act a fool. Just just walk away. And let me be clear, when you walk away, do not go crawling back. Do not let they ask crawl back. Do not let them sneak back in your life. Do not do not suddenly buy it when they suddenly won't act right. When you start playing hard. They have their chance to act right and now all of a sudden they act in desperate. Never taking desperate people man cause as soon as they are not desperate, they're gonna be plotting against you. Look, I realize I realize that a lot of people who may be new to the show, they've never heard me before. They're thinking new. This guy is just, he's depressing. He's sad, he probably bitter and hurt. And you know what? I really don't care what people think about me when it comes to that. What I more care about is what you. Think about what I said. You could put any labels you want on me. I'm bitter. Sure hurt. You betcha. Dusty broke you. Say whatever you want, man. I don't care what you say. Here's what matters to me. Is do you actually have an argument to the contrary of what we've discussed today, do you think that there's not power walking away? There's more power and acting goofy, making rash choices, doing dumb things. I don't. Let's say some dude punks on you. He wants to provoke and get your get a rise out of you. Just walk away from that dude. I know we're taught as young men that if somebody's getting up our face saying things you don't like doing things we don't like, that we should just pop them in the nose or or whatever. No. Look, there may potentially be a place for that. Maybe, maybe, but that should always be the last resort. Because you need to win the spiritual and mental battle. It's only when you lose those two that then the physical takes priority. Because if you're mentally in a place where you're like, no, I'm not gonna fall for this. I'm not gonna take the bait like a guppy in a fish tank. I'm not gonna do that. Or you're spiritually sound. And you have your center. And you say dude. I'm not affected by this. This is totally beneath me. I'm not dealing with this. That's powerful. In fact, people are gonna be a little freaked out by how calm you are. Being calm is power being frantic, emotional reactive. That's not powerful. That's very easy to manipulate, by the way, in case you didn't know. Emotional people are very easy to manipulate. All you got to do is get an emotional rise out of them. But people who are calm and in tune with their center, they're stoic. They don't fall for the the bait. They don't take the bait. They sit there and they let everything come to them, and they're unfazed by what's going on. That's what you need to be, and it's one thing for you to psychologically be having stuff go on. It's another to show it physically. I still struggle with that, not letting my emotions show and keeping my poker face on stand by at all times. Because your emotional choices. Again, let me reiterate again. Emotional choices are usually the worst ones you'll ever make. Because you're in your fight or flight, you're not thinking logically. You're thinking up short term and emotionally, which is only gonna hinder you. And is more likely to cause you to stumble and fall. And that fall could be just a little a little stone and your face plant. Or it could be off a Cliff. But you don't know. And you're taking that gamble and rolling the dice. When in doubt, walk away and do not get worked up. Do not get angry. Do not try to reason with people, just walk. Just walk away, my friends. If you disagree with anything that I said. I pity you. Nah, I'm just playing. If you disagree, you're more than welcome to disagree. I'm just curious as to what aspect of it you disagree with, but if you want, if you want to leave it, leave your thoughts in the comments below. Leave it on my ex page. At sheep get sheared. By my friends. Until next time. God bless you. God bless your families. God Bless America. Remember, your power isn't walking away. Do not be emotional as that is easy to manipulate. Let's go out there and win peace.