I tell you the story. Not to be cute or be quaint, but to like tell you that you are taught these things in the military. At least you were back then. I don't know. Today. Maybe they they teach you that Jenny has two mommies and that Billy should like Bobby, but. What I note is back then he taught me the importance of balancing the mind, the body, the spirit and the heart. Having this whole balance act go on. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep Get Sheared podcast. I'm your host, Austin Creed. My friends, you know, normally on the show, we go through multiple videos. We have an intense conversation based on what other people are saying. But today I think it's incredibly important this this is coming on kind of weighing on my soul a little bit. Both because of what I'm going through and because I sense that in the troubling times we're in. I think it's more important than ever. That we truly understand what it means to master ourselves. Now I know that sounds really spiritual. Woo woo. Like crazy. I get it. I totally understand him. When I was first explain, I first was explaining the concept of. Mastering yourself to avoid persecuting other people to avoid. Seeking the validation of other people to stop being such a beta cook and wanting everything from the women wanting everything from the other men, and then they're a validation and going to women and saying Oh my good, nothing bad. Ohh my good enough partner. Ohh am I good enough? No, I'm sick of that garbage. And the reason I'm sick of it. Is I went through the whole gauntlet of wanting other people to like me. I remember in high school. I'll tell you a personal story. Why not? We're not going through videos today. This is just me and you. We're having a conversation. When I was younger and in high school I was goofy. I was basically like 6 1/2 feet tall. I had held a lot of muscle in my body. I was homeschooled as a kid. I was incredibly self-conscious of how different I was and. I wanted people's acceptance. I wanted them to like me. I wanted them to think I was cool. I wanted them to say, dude, that guy Austin, he's a cool guy, that guy Austin, I want to be friends with him. He's awesome. That's what I wanted desperately. When I was younger. Now, I don't care what people think of me. They could think of the most knowledgeable. By some Socrates or Aristotle, or they could think of some dummy who's a shock jock. I don't care what people think of me now. But this didn't happen overnight. And it still fluctuates from time and time. I'm not some iron clad juggernaut. Who the bullets bounce off me. The piercing arrows of other people's expectations and wants and desires bounce off me. Is it? Do they bounce off more than they used to? Oh, absolutely. But am I invulnerable? No. And it's admitting this to yourself that there's always room for improvement. There's always room to say, hey, you know what I don't like who I used to be. But I'm actively working towards something. I'm not just trying to not be the guy I was before, but I'm actively trying to become someone else. Something better than before that is truly what it means to be mastering yourself. Because look, it could be something I say it could be something somebody else on this side of the Internet has to say, could be something your mother says your best friend, your girlfriend, who knows. But you have to understand, no matter what kind of information they give you, whether you like it or you don't like it. Not everything that works for other people will work for you, and you have to be willing to experiment. You got to be willing to pay the price, cause nothing is free. Let's get that out the way. Now I've mentioned this time after time. But because it's because it is applicable, I will do it again. The 40th Law of Power and the 48 Laws of power by Robert Green. Great book, by the way, is learning to despise the free lunch. So anytime you hear anybody say women are free or dealing with other people is free or your time is free or what. All these things are utter rubbish. Rubbish. It's garbage. Why? Because your time is your most valuable asset. And if anything is free, it's either a garbage or B their strings attached to it. You really think let's let's make this a geopolitical scenario for a second. Do you think that all the immigrants who are coming here? All the illegal aliens that are coming over the border and getting hospitals treatment, they're getting. And hotel rooms. They're getting food stamps and all this stuff. Oh, yeah. Oh, you didn't know that, did you? Because you didn't show up on ABC. CNN didn't show up on there. Ohh yeah. Immigrants coming in right now. A lot of them are getting preferential treatment. Your grandfather Eddie, who maybe got hurt. In in Vietnam or in in Korea, push him to the back of the bus. We don't need that bum. We're gonna put Mr. whatever his name is in front of him because he's the new American. He's a future of America. We need to put him first. That's the world you're living in, gentlemen. Do you think that that's free? Number one, it's being paid for with taxpayer money. #2 we're in inflation, inflation is proven to people who didn't understand inflation that you can't just print money. There is this idea of scarcity. Three is not a real thing. It's because you are not paying for it at that moment. Does not mean that you won't pay, period, or that somebody else is not paying for it. And that's why I talk. I talk about this in my book Biblical bachelor. I didn't intend to plug it, but I think it's relevant. I talked about this idea of paying upfront or paying on the back end because especially in relationships, which is a level of mastering yourself, is to understand how relationships work, understand how finances work, understanding. Your own experience and where you're going, why you're doing it, how you're going to get. There. What you're feeling in the moment, so how you could transmute that energy, all of this stuff is important, and if to not be in touch with your mind, your body, your soul or the heart, you are losing a pillar. Every house has foundations, has important walls. You look at old school. Greek buildings with like the four pillars or more. If you take a pillar out, the whole structure risks destabilization and risks falling over and collapsing. So when you take out a pillar. I'll tell you another personal story about this this whole pillar business. When I was in basic training in the Air Force, talking like the end of 2020. I remember. When I I was obsessed with reading the Bible back then because I was hating every second of basic it was hard. My my training instructor was kind of a ****** ***. He treated he he was extremely jerky. I didn't like him. He was a good trainer, I just didn't. Like him. And I don't think anybody else did, but I remember I was reading the Bible a lot more than I used to, and I kept the one in my locker, which was against regulation. And I found out later, but I didn't know. He was doing an inspection. He found it and he was like Creed, which which everybody goes by their last names in military. And I was like, yes, Sir. And he's like, what is this? And I. Said. What are you talking about, Sir? He's like it's smart with me. Creed, what is this? And he points on my Bible and my it's a Bible, Sir. He's like, why is it in your locker? He said look, he said, look, look in my eyes. And I looked into his eyes and he said listen to me. Faith is important. It's part of the four pillars of existence. It's important. But you prioritize things in order of importance, #1 and #2. You do it. On your time, not on my time. I said yes, Sir, and I moved on. I tell you the story. Not to be cute or be quaint, but still like tell you that you are taught these things in the military. At least you were back then. I don't know. Today. Maybe they they teach you that Jenny has two mommies and that Billy should like Bobby, but. What I note is back then he taught me the importance of balancing the mind, the body, the spirit and the heart. Having this whole balance act go on and when I was not doing that correctly, he called me out for it. You need to either have someone do that for you, or you need to have the self-awareness to do that for yourself, because if you don't, you risk being destabilized. Come on, I gotta get drink water. I can already feel in the back of my throat, my throat's getting dry already. I'm already already yelling too much. Well, my friends, the reason I'm talking about this is because I don't have it all together. I'm not some guy who pretends like I'm living the dream life. I have everything. I don't. I don't have everything. I don't have all the answers, but I'm actively pursuing. I don't know what I don't know. And I'm actively trying to turn those unknowns into knowns and to master them, and that is the whole point. I'm a young guy who, by old people's standards, I guess I don't consider myself young. But This is why I'm talking about this today because, well, we want to talk about the women. We're going to talk about the money. Well, we want to talk about the politics. All those things are great, and they're all important. But the common denominator through all of those is you, your mindset and how you respond to what the world throws at you. And part of the problem is people want to blame other people, whether it be women, the government, parents, friends, people want to blame others. Instead of saying, hey, you know what, maybe 80% of this is not my fault. But I'm gonna take the 20%. I'm gonna own it, and I'm gonna learn something from it. That is what I encourage you to do now is it? Is it going to be fun? Are you going to like doing it? No. But is it going to be? Necessary. Yes, because it's going to help you grow as a man going to help you understand where you're lacking. So then you could say, OK, I didn't realize I wasn't good at this or hey, I didn't realize I was so vulnerable here. Let's fix it. Let's do something so that I am not doing the same thing over and over again and not learning from my own mistakes. There's an old adage I've quoted on the show before. Wise men learn from the mistakes of others. Normal men learn from their own mistakes and fools repeat their mistakes over and over while learning nothing. My friends. On our jury to be kind of go on this tightrope of life and balance the women, the wealth, the pursuit of power, all of these things we have to keep ourselves center. We have to understand the significance of controlling our reactions to the outside world and realizing that there's more to life. In getting *****, there's more. Your life than being rich, there's more. All those things are great. Do not ever misquote me. Those are all great things. But we got to put things in proper perspective or re risk putting ourselves in a tailspin. It's great to preach semen retention on forever. That's not feasible. It's not feasible. Because let's not pretend like we don't waste a lot of time chasing women. Trying to go on dates trying to *** **** trying to find a relationship. All these things are a tax on our time. And if that's what you want, just realize that you are giving up that time. Even if you go out there and you FAP. I'm not going to say here and tell you that if you FAP you're a bad person or you're a bad man. No, it's a trade off. You're trading. That away, just like if you are on similar retention, you're trading. That potential overload of your or your inability to control that, and it could lead you into a bad situation there. There are only trade-offs in this life. There is no silver bullet. There's no fast track. There are trade-offs and that is for you to decide and that is how you understand what trade off you're willing to make. And that works best for you, depending on what you've tried, what you want to try, what has worked, what doesn't work all these. Things are all part and parcel of the journey of life, and you must understand how this affects you. I could talk all day about how this affects me and I will and I have. But. What works for me might not work for you. If it does, that's fantastic. Do what I do. Then if that works for you, but if it doesn't, well then you have to figure out what works for you. What doesn't, and you gotta not be afraid to try. Comfort is not a good place to be, at least not permanently in all areas. Sometimes you need a little bit of comfort. You need a refuge. You need an Oasis. You need a retreat. Away from the challenges. That's another reason why men are leaving relationships or women are not providing that retreat for the men anymore. So men are finding it elsewhere. Whether it be in their orgasm and in video games in athletics, in a hobby, it could be any number of things or all. A mixture of all of. Those things, but when we are honest with ourselves and we understand where we're vulnerable, where we excel and what we want to do, we then give ourselves the power back. We don't feel like a plastic bag floating in the wind. We feel like we have agency, we know we're going, we know what we want to do. We have power. And power is like the number one thing that matters in this life is who has the power, why and how do they get it? And. How do they keep it? Just ask the politicians, they'll tell you. My friends, I think I'll stop it there because I think now I'm repeating myself. But I know this is a little shorter than normal. I know this is a little different than if you've watched the show before, but I wanted to get this out there. I think it's important. Please share with me strategies you've you have for yourself. Maybe you can help another person who listens to the show. My friends take care of yourselves. Always investigate, think for yourself and do not just sit back and be passive. Don't be a passenger in the car of your own life. Take care yourselves. I'm out. Peace.