The Unusal Guide for Young Men

As a young man you have the whole world and an entire lifetime in front of you. Now is the time to take advantage. Of all the regrets you may have later in life, wasted time will be the most heartbreaking of them all.

Do not follow the path that has been laid out for you, do not do as everyone else you know. Unless you are average.

While in school you have been led to believe that you must follow this order: go to school, get a job to pay, get married, consume as much as possible, save for retirement at which point you can live life, and then die having accomplished nothing other than being a good boy and doing what you were told.

Everything you have been told is a complete lie. If you find this unbelievable just ask anyone in their late thirties to mid-forties who followed this path and see how happy they truly are. They may lie with their words but their soulless eyes cannot tell a lie.

I would advise you do these 7 things:

1) Lift Weights

Lifting gives you a sense of pride and accomplishment that a skinny person or a fat person will never know or understand. 

As a teen you are in the primetime for developing some serious strength and a great physique. You have all that natural testosterone pulsing through your body so put it to good use

2) Play a sport, e.g Football

 Competitive sports like football developed strength, courage, discipline, and pride –I see young guys who don’t compete, spending all their time on the computer or other useless time-wasters.

3) Don’t bother going to the University

This may be the hardest pill to swallow but university is a colossal waste of time and money. You could save yourself endless boredom and chose a different path. 

You don’t go there to learn, you go there to further your indoctrination and emasculate you even more.

University these days are filled with monumentally stupid people who have no earthly business at an institute of higher learning. As you will learn later a university degree means absolutely nothing when you go your own way and do not follow the path that everyone else will follow.

A university degree does not guarantee a “good” job. A “good” job does not guarantee safety. The only safety guaranteed is what you do for yourself. There is no safety relying on other people.

If you must go the university go later in life. I hear people say “Oh, I’ll travel in a few years when I have time. Oh, I’ll start my business in a few years when I have time”. 

If you must go to college, go after a few years of real education in the real world. If you go, you had better get an engineering, medicine degree etc..), something you can’t learn on your own. Arts, psychology or anything ending in “studies” degrees are completely useless in the job market. Not that you should want to get a job.

You do not have to go to college to get drunk, party and hook up. That can be done anywhere at any time.

4) Travel often

Start traveling abroad, Asia, or Europe, or South America for an eye-opening experience you will never forget or regret.

You would have learnt more in a year of traveling than I learned in 7 years of university (or 4, or however long it was).

5) Turn off the TV

You can’t pick a bigger waste of time than TV watching. Same for video games and other mindless internet usage.

6) Don’t work full time

You should be of the mindset of never having a real job or wanting a real job.

The only way you will ever get rich is to build a business yourself. The only way you will have security is to build a business yourself. The only way you will have freedom is to build a business yourself. Do you really want to go 50 years asking permission from a lowly middle management executive for a one week vacation per year?

The only job you should ever have is one that provides you only with the bare necessities and leaves you hungry for more, one that gives you time to pursue other ventures. 

When you have a full time job that pays you enough to buy all the stupid worthless shit you see on TV you will get lazy and you will NEVER DO ANYTHING WORTHWHILE  UNTIL YOU QUIT. Don’t fall into that trap. Live as cheaply as you possibly can.

7) Don’t listen to the usual advice

Advice given to you will be, without question, terrible. It will be the same thing over and over “Go to school, get a good job. You can do all that other stuff later.” 

You can respond “Oh, really? Is that what you did? Went to school, got a job and then fulfilled your dreams later?” and see the look of regret in their eyes.

People who fell for the joke want you to fall for the same joke, it’s a part of human nature for people not to want others to succeed where they failed. Conventional advice is to be ignored, always. You are better off doing the opposite.

As a young man you think you have all the time in the world. You don’t. You have only a brief time on this Earth. Use that to your advantage. Never for one second think “I can do all that fun stuff later” because you can’t and you won’t.

Now is the time. You are in your prime and if you don’t take advantage you will waste away like all the people you see who are dead inside. The same people who are waiting for retirement, pretending they are going to go and do the things you will do right now.

Go forth young man and live your life.

-Ephraim Davies