Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the sheep get sheared podcast.
I'm your host, Austin Creed.
You know, my friends, one of the world's supporters of the channel had a very interesting
question and I thought, Hey, you know what, I think it's very important that we address
this topic.
So in the spirit of having good ideas, I want to shout out to asmr.
Ambiotic fluid shout out to him is his question.
And his question was, what is a masculine mind?
Well, I'm so glad you asked, brother, because you know what?
We need to talk about this subject.
I think it's very important.
So I want to start this off by saying, I'm a fairly by most MGTOW standards, I'm pretty
young.
And so I wouldn't say I'm typical MGTOW the biblical bachelor lifestyle is a little more
off the beaten path of what people would call MGTOW or red pill or anything else.
In fact, some people mock me for it, but you know what?
That being said, I don't proclaim to be an export or the expert on when it comes to
the masculine mind, but I am a student of history, and I like psychology.
And so what we're going to do is we're going to break this down piece by piece in hopes
of answering the question of what is a masculine mind?
Well, first, we have to start with the finding terms.
Number one is the term masculine.
What does it mean to be masculine?
You don't have any idea how we need different people have an answer to that question.
I mean, if you look at Hollywood, they say being masculine means wearing a dress, but
other people say being masculine is giving.
Others say masculine is being a father.
Others say being masculine means you keep your woman in check.
You're quote a real man.
I hate the term real man.
I absolutely despise it because it's one of those really goofy phrases that you say
by trying to establish ethos.
So when I was in college, we learned about ethos, pathos and logos.
Ethos is trying to establish credibility.
Logos is trying to establish logic.
And then pathos is Greek for pathetic.
In other words, it pulls on your heartstrings.
It's meant to invoke emotion out of people and use emotion to persuade someone's argument.
And so when we get into what it means to be masculine.
Well first of all, in this space, when I say the space, I mean people who are more red
pill creators, man, a sphere, guys, whatever, they tend to define masculinity in multiple
different ways.
As for me personally, I am more of the mind that being masculine is more a more a more
traditional in the sense that masculinity is takes the form of working out, going to we're
going to the gym and take care of yourself.
After you do that, you got to get your finances straight so that you're an independent entity
as much as humanly possible.
Next you need to be able to have a backbone and not be not be a moldable piece of clay
that anybody could just walk up to and shape into what they want.
You need to stand up for what you believe in.
Even if it's fine, you find out it's wrong, you adapt, you change, you admit that you're
wrong and you move on, you don't sit there and mold yourself to fit other people's whims.
But at the same time, you're not so stuck in your ways that you can't learn.
You can't be an old dog that can't learn new tricks.
You don't want to be stuck in that category because it's me.
That's not masculine.
And that's where people get into the conversation of toxic, so called toxic masculinity.
I personally think that number one, if we want to call masculinity toxic, we have to
then embrace that femininity has toxic elements, which I think everybody here can completely
agree with.
I don't think there's anybody listening to the show who would sit there and tell me
that there's no such thing as toxic femininity.
I mean, we see it saturating the internet like the marinade on your last steak that you grilled.
So but I don't think that masculinity is toxic.
I think that there are elements of it that can be more corrosive than others to others.
And that is why they find it toxic.
For example, taking care of yourself is seen as toxic because you're not giving your stuff
away to others.
Well, there is something to be said about being masculine at providing for other people.
I don't care if you're a guy who's completely ming Tao, you're financially helping somebody,
whether it be a girlfriend, if you want to go that route, maybe it's a parent, maybe
it's a pet, maybe it's a loved one of some kind, could be a child, maybe from a previous
marriage you had or whatever.
At the end of the day, you're financially supporting someone or something to some extent,
and that's normal.
So when we get into masculinity, you have to define what that means for you.
I'll give you a couple examples of how I see it.
But at the end of the day, this is for you to decide.
I could say here all day, you can say here all day and talk about what masculinity should
be, ought to be, could be, might be.
No, we're not going to do that.
Because at the end of the day, you're going to believe you want and I'm going to believe
that I want.
Now, am I going to sit here and I'm going to tell you certain aspects of what I think
masculinity is?
Of course, I do it all the time.
But when it comes to this topic of what is a masculine mind?
Masculinity is only one half of the equation.
The other half is what does it mean to have a mind?
What are we talking about?
Well, some people going back into philosophy for a second, they associate the mind with
the soul or the spirit.
But then there are atheists who say there's no such thing and it's only your consciousness
that your brain, it's the circuitry within your system that allows you to receive and
to interpret the world around you.
And so we talk about the mind aspect, we need to define what that means.
We need to say, okay, are we just sacks of sacks of flesh?
That when we die, that's it.
Or do we have a spirit?
I personally think there's more to the human than just blood and bones.
Encompassed with a flesh sack, I think there's more to it than that.
The very my point meaning that the fact that we're able to contemplate the complexities
of the universe, we're able to converse with each other and talk about aspects that you
don't need to hear animals.
I've never heard an animal write a thesis on the theories of time travel, or about the
multiverse, or about the physics of gravity.
The animals don't do that.
And while part of our being is animalistic, there's no escaping that.
There is a certain element of the human condition that is just different.
That's more, may I say, divine in nature.
Not that we are gods, but we have elements of God within all of us that's allowing us
to be more than monkeys or beasts of the field.
And so when we talk about both the masculinity and the mind, we bring the two together.
We have the question of what is a masculine mind?
Well the masculine mind in one man's opinion is a man who is willing to accept the realities
of the world.
He doesn't take he doesn't take the blue pill of fantasy.
He doesn't even take the purple pill of I'm half in and I'm half out.
He says, hey, this is what I see the world as.
Now that I like it, in fact, arguably, if you like the world you're looking at, you're
probably using the wrong lens.
You're like, it's like being at the optometrist.
And they're saying number one or number two, if you like number one, it probably is not
the lens that's actually going to help you see reality.
It's the lens that'll help you see what you want to see, but that's going to leave you
vulnerable to being extorted, exploited, and ultimately lead to your own extermination
by your own hand.
Now another part of the masculine mind I would say is to help other people, but big
but here pause, but you only help people that want to be helped.
You're not going to be out here helping 304s who don't want to listen to you.
You're not going to be out here trying to rescue Goofies and Sips who don't want to
listen to you.
You're not going to be out here trying to convince people that they are wrong when you're
coming from a place of logic and they're using emotion.
You're not you're going to drive yourself crazy doing that.
To me, that's not masculine because it's impossible to not get in your feelings when
you approach a situation like that.
The masculine mind runs on logic, reason, and peace.
You might think that oh men men are more like actually when you look at the women leaders,
the women leaders have been more violent than have the men but I'll let sleeping dogs
lie on that because it's not the main issue here.
The main issue is we as men we want very simple things.
However, a lot of us have been fed from the government, from the entertainment industry,
and from the church, these fantasies that then frame what becomes our worldview, the picture
of our worldview.
We talked about that yesterday on the show.
So we get into the current of the masculine mind.
We have to define the two these terms and then we have to decide.
Okay, do I have a masculine mind?
Do I even want to have one of my willing to make sacrifices?
Am I willing to go without so that I can turn within and figure out what it is I need?
And deciphering between wants and needs and this is what people refer to as muck mode.
Now, do I think that everybody should go through muck mode?
Not necessarily.
I mean, you definitely can.
I've seen results from it.
I know others who have as well.
You can definitely see results from it.
That being said, we need to understand.
We need to know our own situation.
I don't know your situation.
There could be a time in your life where you need to go without you need to establish that
logic, that reason back.
You need to get an upgrade.
You upgrade that software because every human being since the Stone Age till today has been
born with the same software, the same Ooga Booga type.
Basic monkey brain.
Now it's not racial.
It goes across racial ethnicity, religions, everything.
Because at the end of the day, if you take the basic human being, you take away his
lot, you take away his ability to logic, you take away his knowledge of science, you take
away his identity as a human, you take away his faith in his culture.
What do you have?
You have basically a monkey.
But if you take a man as he is, you make him worse.
So we're not going to do that.
Instead, what we're going to do is we're going to revisit the masculine mind and we're going
to say, what does that mean to have a masculine mind?
Well, we need to upgrade our logic and our reasoning.
And we need to understand how our emotions can sabotage us.
We need to understand how other people will weaponize emotions against us to try to neutralize
our logic and our reasoning, which is only going to allow us to be exploited.
And it's going to lead us to question ourselves in a way that's going to cripple our confidence.
So when we talk about the masculine mind, you have to master your ability to understand
other people's approaches.
We may like to say they're more emotionally intelligent than our men.
I disagree.
I say they're more emotionally sensitive.
They're more emotionally expressive, but they are that does not eat does not necessarily
mean intelligence.
It is not equate volume does not equal validity.
You know, not just because you feel more does not mean you understand what you are feeling
any more than somebody who feels it less.
But again, my friends, this all comes back to our ability to logic and reason, instead
of just using our basic monkey biology to try to give us what he thinks we need.
That's why I encourage you and your search for masculine mind and to develop one, you
need to go without be willing to sacrifice pleasure, be willing to sacrifice your own
self satisfaction, instead be willing to say, I'm going to go without so that I can compound
interest my wins.
I can use that time instead of giving it to women, instead of giving it to other people,
instead of giving it to others who are simply going to not appreciate it.
I'm going to take it for myself.
And I'm going to invest it in myself.
And I'm going to see those returns in the same way you'd see a return on your stock
market or cryptocurrency investment.
I hope this answers the question.
If if any brothers want to chime in and let their voice be heard on what they think a
masculine mind is, I know I basically just touch the bare bones of it.
But I really think I might do a little mini series on this because this is a very important
topic that I haven't heard any of the content reader talk about.
So that's why I'm glad the question was asked because it's very it's very pregnant and
very paramount to our condition and the various stages of life that we go through.
And a lot of men they don't share notes on this type of thing.
Women are very good at having a hive mind and standing up for other women, whether they're
very right or wrong, men, we tend to be very hyper aggressive and very hyper competitive
with other men.
And in doing so, we lose the opportunity to learn lessons the easy way that we then can
avoid learning the hard way and avoid hurting ourselves and avoid taking roads that we could
have avoided and save ourselves time, energy, sanity and money.
And my friends, if you have a different definition that I do or you want to add to the definition
that I started to give about the masculine mind and how to define it, I would encourage
you to do so.
Because at the end of the day, we are where we we are our own island, we are an acapella
go of ideas.
All of us, I've chosen, I think, at least to an extent, gone our own way.
And a lot of times it could be lonely, a lot of times we could often almost fall for the
lie that we're the ones who are crazy.
No, we're not.
We're the ones who see if I can't see the rainbow because I'm looking through a window
that's all locked up.
But you can.
And I call you crazy for seeing what's obviously there, but I just can't see it.
Who's the crazy one?
That's probably a bad example.
But I'm thinking about it, though, is probably a bad example, but would you get the point?
My friends on a separate note before I end the show, I actually.
I'm in split Croatia right now.
And I went to see a dial Clesians palace.
So those of you know, he was he was a Roman emperor.
And they apparently filmed a lot of Game of Thrones in here around here.
I didn't know that I've seen Game of Thrones.
It's a good show up until the end.
But I was interested in to see the rich history around.
And I thought to myself, humans have really changed all that much.
They're still petty.
A lot of people still very inflated egos.
We people still still do what's best for them.
And so in the relation to the masculine mind, you have to do what you think is right.
You have to do what you believe is right.
And that doesn't mean you don't ever adapt and change because you either adapt or die.
But that means that you're willing to stay in your ground, not going to just blow over
when a strong gust of wind shows up.
You're going to plant yourself like a tree and you're going to weather the storms that
come your way.
That's what being masculine is.
It's being a rock for yourself and for the people you deem worthy to be part of your
program and part of your life.
People shouldn't just show up in your life and you give them things for nothing.
They need to earn it.
Respect is earned.
My time is earned.
My time with me is earned.
That's how I operate.
I don't know if you can do the same thing.
My friend, do you take care of yourselves again?
Feel free to add or subtract or whatever you want to do and let your boys be heard in the
comments below.
If you liked the video, you already know what to do.
I'm going to tell you what to do.
My friends, take care.
I'm out of here.
Peace out.