You have to know yourself, know your beliefs, what you are going to stand for, die for, and what you are willing to let slide. If you do not know these things and have your lines drawn in the sand then you will get forced and manipulated into doing things that you don’t want to do. You will forever be at the mercy of the Empire, it’s systems and whatever way public opinion is flowing. You won’t be a barbarian you will be a slave to whatever the hip new fad or opinion is and effectively become a low tier character in your own story rather than the main character you are meant to be.
“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.
~Tyler Durden
The process
Figuring this out will take some time. I know it’s, I have been at it a better part of a couple of years and I am still at it, but you can figure out the basics. You are going to go back and forth on some things and realize the world is not black and white and some things just have no good answers or solutions.
Ideally in order to accomplish this you would spend a week or more cut off from the rest of the world, no technology, no internet, no substances, coffee, weed, drugs etc. Cutting your self off from all the things that alter your mind, program you subconscious and effect your judgment. Because if someone is constantly telling you what you are or who you are or how you are supposed to act you will never be able to get a clear enough head to figure out for your self who you truly are.
Now if you have the ability, there are many retreats out there for this sort of thing, but if you can’t, at least get a notebook and over a weekend turn your phone off, turn off your internet, TV, etc. Just try to be alone and start thinking about who you are. Write down what ever comes.
Here are some prompts to get you thinking
(First write down the answers to these question)
1. What is your favorite part of each day?
2. What are the three most important things in your everyday life?
3. Where would your ideal vacation destination be?
4. What is your favorite hobby? Can you do more of it?
5. Where do you get your daily news stories and current affairs updates from?
6. Do they enhance or damage your daily productivity?
7. What do you still invest time in that no longer benefits you?
8. What is your personal definition of success?
9. How will you know when you have achieved success?
10. Write down what you want to have achieved in the next 3 months, 6 months and 12 months.
11. What does love mean to you?
12. Do you have any religious/spiritual beliefs? What are they?
13. Why Do you have these beliefs?
Have you been programmed?
14. Do you have an emotional response and don’t know why
15.Are you angry at a person or about a topic but you can’t articulate why or can’t speak intelligently about it?
(If you answered yes to either of those then you don’t have a belief, You have been programmed)
Your personal relationships
Now take look at your personal relationships and figure out which ones you would help if they needed it, which you would lone money too, which you would fight for, now how about who you would die for. Now look at it the other way and be honest with yourself. Who mistreats you, who treats you well. What relationships do you have that both benefit you and the other person, who do you trust and who don’t you? This could be family, friends, co workers, bosses, any relationship in your life.
If you can’t look at this in an unbiased manner, and most people can’t, find a few people whose opinion you trust and ask them about the other people in your life. However make sure you do this one at a time and separately, then compare notes from each person by your self. Doing this will allow you to sift through any personal bias on their side. If you talk to 5 close friends and they all tell you someone is bad for you then you might want to look at that relationship. Now if Tom says Jimmy is a horrible person and Jimmy says Tom is a horrible person but no one else has a judgment then those two might not like each other but that doesn’t mean that either of them are toxic. Use YOUR best judgment.
Testing these relationships
You can also ask the people in your life for help with something, do they help you, or blow you off? You will need to do this multiple times to make sure it really wasn’t something that they couldn’t help with or that timing was really bad on their end whatever the excuse may have been. You can also simply drop of the map for a few days, Don’t text, call, or Facebook anyone and see who checks in on you. Keep in mind this test can really be an eye opener so if you are not ready for the answers on this one don’t ask the question. If through these process you find the people do check in on you, they do drop what they are doing to help you out, focus more of your time on those relationships.
A truly unbiased assessment of your personal relationships may be quite depressing. Many men if they are honest with themselves have few if any people in their life that they could actually depend on in a bad situation or even simply borrow a small amount of cash. Some have none at all and are entirely dependent the government programs, systems and corporations of the Empire. This is the way the Empire works and they like it that way.
This process however is only the beginning
From now on look at any situation that presents itself to you and find out how YOU feel about them. Not how the media or your wife or your parents tell you to think about it. If something interests you research it, if something doesn’t sound right, research it. If you have an opinion about any topic and you haven’t researched it thoroughly and looked at both sides, then you nothing more than a useful idiot for one side of the argument. If you do not know the definition of that term I recommend you look it up.
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