Thanks for the support!

Yes it was hard, but I realized after reading your articles that being rejected is a part of life, and, the benefits of rejection are that you grow from it, evolve, and become a better man because of it.

It reminds me of a quote, “You learn by falling and getting up.” I think that there is a lot of truth in this. I’m glad those rejections happened, because as a result, I took a good look at how my life was at the time, and instead of going along with everybody else, I started to work on myself, because that’s the only person that’s going to matter in a couple of years.

Thanks so much for the comment brother! All that stuff you went through is good. It may not feel like it, but it’s feedback. Being rejected by girls helps you understand how to become a desirable man if you pay attention. Guys calling you gay, that’s bullshit, but it can force you to become tougher, stronger. There is good in all of our trials if we allow it to be so. Glad you’re becoming THE MAN – keep at it brother!

I am now only 15, but I have evolved for the better, and I constantly read and chase after things to help me improve, but your articles Chad, have been the best and most helpful things fed to me in a while.

Thank you for helping me realize what it means to be a true man, even though i’m still only a boy myself!

I’m almost 54 years old. And these sayings were non-existent when I was a kid. It’s crazy how in such a short time, things changed.

Each person’s unique, not special. You had to earn your chops in school, sports, etc. When I was a kid, “special” was reserved for those either who were mentally challenged; or those who really had their A-Game going. Now we’re all “special.” It may sound cute, however where does it give a person their uniqueness to work with and be their best at whatever?

Finding oneself meant getting out in the world, working, and trying different things before you found your niche. At worst, people joined the military and wound up finding themselves in a career. Back in my younger days, the biggest turn-off to a woman was a man trying to “find himself”. Now we have boys backpacking through Europe (on their folks’ dime) trying to “find themselves,” and the women digging it!

Winning was everything when I was coming up; “lose” was a four-letter word. When we awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners it would put the losers on notice to try harder. Now that we award everybody-including the also rans-where’s the effort in trying?

(Fill in the blank) pride. Back in the day, “pride” meant how one carried themselves-regardless of race or gender preference. Pride meant having your own business, or being the best employee you could be. How you kept your home. You could be dirt poor and still dressed neatly. Today, we have more than any generation and I see young people looking and acting like crap.

Now a half-century’s past and look what’s happened. Thanks for sharing the truth!

Because it’s not right to be patriotic. It was simple happenstance that you were born into the race, culture, religion, and country you are told to love and uphold. Should you work to make the country the best one it can be? Yes, but not for you or for history’s sake, but for the future generations. Eventually countries will be done away with, and things like patriotism will hold back the human race much the same as the ideas of race and religion have done. Celebrate your heritage and culture, but do away with that which shackles you to the past.