Many young men today, saddled with sky-high expectations and constant societal programming are falling prey to the devil of trying too hard and therefore failing at much of what they intend to achieve. Not to mention failing at enjoying all life has to offer.

All of your energy should directly feed that hunger toward your Purpose without regret, or inner resistance. Thus, your personal ‘fun time’ can be sacrificed like a fuel booster on a rocket. In this case a rocket towards your dreams.

To synergize your life, you must transform how you live into an epitome of economy. Like the Olympic swimmer with the perfect breaststroke that doesn’t waste one single calorie on wasteful movements; he propels himself from the springboard to the target line like a torpedo. Synergy is a harmonious mindset, where everything you have is focused on promoting the maximum chance of success at the lowest cost.

You might ask ‘why can’t I just talk like I feel like it?’’

You could but you wouldn’t be effective. Don’t you want to spread your message far and wide? Change and influence the hearts and minds of men? If you were an archer, would you just pull the string back and let the arrow fly? Continuing with this analogy, do you pull the bowstring because you enjoy firing off arrows into space or do you really want to strike the bullseye?

I believe as a man that YOU are the sculptor of your own character. YOU choose what ideals to mix into the mortar of raw experience and primal instincts that make up your soul.

Yes, although we men fancy ourselves strong creatures, and bastions of emotional self-control -- we don’t want to be robots – do we? We certainly don’t want to be silent robots that don’t say a word before breaking down —

Without purity of purpose a man’s soul sickens and he becomes less.

What holds a grudge more than a neutered junkyard dog, and is ornerier than a sleep-deprived honey badger?

Gender equality is a noble goal, but now the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction and males have no spaces of their own. To the modern man, it feels like he is being pushed into an ever-shrinking box at work, at play, and even at home.

In society, doesn’t it seem like many women want to have the best advantages from both traditional and modern gender role models and none of the drawbacks, and be able to switch back and forth between the two at will?

If societies can’t do better in cultivating masculinity, then society’s moral fiber and stability in the form of the nuclear family will continue to decline towards collapse. If societies do not foster men’s ability to develop, implement, and manufacture new products and technologies, then it will become little more than a service economy, the labor of which can be outsourced to cheaper locales or AI bots.

Life eventually wears us down. Grinding for money, working out, and finally hitting the mattress in exhaustion. Every day feels the same.

How do we find a little joy?