Title: Culture War and Content Creation 2: 9 Habits of Highly Reactionary People - YouTubeSeries: Culture War and Content CreationCreator: The DistributistPublication Date: December 29, 2020

Summary

• Be wary of asserting power that you don't have
• Also: it's not so easy as "become worthy" and then seize the power

How to Improve Oneself To Become a Leader and Gain Power

1. Don't Panic

• For those on the Right, the world can be a very hostile place (clownworld)
• The left is constantly pushing change, which makes it hard to find solid ground to build upon
• Working yourself into a state of constant worry/dysphoria has no positive benefit
• It can also get you caught in the "outrage cycle"

2. Choose Growth Over Comfort (Limit Addiction)

• We are used to living in a constant stream of dopamine rushes
• Learned helplessness is another enemy, but we must push through
• The Executive "Type": Optimism, athleticism, punctuality, resilient
• Have to be able to take reasonable risks and win
• Risk aversion and Paralysis by analysis are to be avoided.

3. Form Good Habits

• Form habits that reinforce and move you towards your goals
• [[Atomic Habits]]
• [[Tiny Habits]]
• Learn to maintain focus. Fight the dopamine addiction

4. Join Groups That Cultivate Growth

• Stronger than dopamine addiction
• Cultivate real friendships
• Grow your friend group
• Basketweaving

5. Always Be Learning

• This is the main way we grow and make ourselves more valuable
• Focus on new skills that you enjoy and are worthwhile
• We can also learn through experiences and relationships

6. Always Be Building

• Build towards a completed work or objective
• Moving something forward and creating external works is worthwhile
• It also gets us around "credentialism" which can be an intellectual trap
• In our youth we are trained to work very hard to get a grade or a degree
• We are only learning to get the grade, not because the information is useful to us in the future
• The institutional hurdles are often arbitrary and useless - they often hold people back
• Having a portfolio of completed projects is actually more impressive than grades from institutions.
• Gets around the pitfall of "stupid work" - Work smarter, not harder
• Working harder doesn't mean you're doing better
• Make sure you're working towards the right direction in regards to your goals
• Make sure you're work is progressing to completion of a project

7. Always Be Teaching

• Focuses more on social interaction - can only be done with other people
• There are always opportunity to be a teacher and people who are eager to learn from us
• Helping others is also the best way to educate yourself
• Teaching the concepts to others helps you understand them better for your own purposes
• You grow as a leader as you grow others
• The left often criticizes the right for being totally uninterested in education, that we are only focused on our own status hierarchy. We don't focus on bringing up our allies.
• Don't focus on clout or status so much
• Those who are interested in our ideas are our allies
• This helps grow community

8. Cultivate Deep Friendship and Guarded Openness

• The above steps help you to develop close friends and connections
• Start in a guarded fashion
• Allow them to grow and develop
• Men and women develop these things differently
• Men often need an external objective to work towards
• Hobbies are a great start with this, especially in physical space
• Meeting and developing in real life is critical to building actual community

9. Take Ownership in a Community

• Walk the walk
• Step into a role as a leader
• Local and small communities still exist
• Opportunities for leadership are there (just look!)
• The best way to learn how to do something is to DO it.
• Church organizations are a great place to start
• Ownership is a concept that sets the right apart
• It is a difficult concept for millennials and GenZ, who often cherish the role of detached criticism but not becoming part of communities
• It means investing yourself, your time and put your name to it, protect it
• Yes, you will be judged based on the success or failure of the community
• This is a huge problem with current leadership (from local to global) - they don't take ownership of the consequences of their actions and use of the power that they wield.
• Always acting like they're just carrying out the will of some external agency
• But they aren't responsible for it
• We need leaders who will take ownership

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