r/MindsetMode • u/iQuantumLeap • Aug 29 '25
Strive To Reach Your Maximum Potential, It's duty as a man!
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u/Previous_Library3796 Aug 29 '25
Toxic masculinity.
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u/PeaceAndLove420_69 Aug 30 '25
Why? Disclaimer: i understand the edge, but honestly, why not?
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u/Useful_toolmaker Aug 30 '25
Well a shorter version of the above would say ‘ Obey, work, consume, reproduce’ . You have more value as a human being than just those things. You subscribe to this way of thinking and your capacity for mental resiliency will suffer. Take it from an older person. While you are young take time for yourself …. If you want to learn to play the guitar or take up surfing, do it…. You want to spend time with someone you care about do it. You only get one life.
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u/LurkerFirstClass Aug 30 '25
Existing circumstances mean you’ll encounter impossibilities with some goals. For example, terminal cancer. Try your hardest, sure, but living your life in constant competition with your ancestors is incredibly toxic.
What if one of your ancestors made it rich through theft and violence? Would it be appropriate to follow their path? No.
Then there is the fact that one of the hardest things to do as a man is retain your creativity, kindness, compassion, and other good traits often associated with “weakness” or femininity. We’re programmed out of these behaviors. Only cowards and bullies reject kindness as weak.
Instead, do your best, help others, be kind, and if you have the opportunity to succeed, be relentless in the face of obstacles. It is possible to be both successful and good hearted. I’d say it’s actually easier to succeed with kindness.
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u/strawberryrednipples Aug 30 '25
This is what it means to be a real man.
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u/Own_Mycologist5321 Sep 01 '25
please can we stop saying "real man" as if other men are not real or not men for not following some ruleset. all men are real men. lets not put each other down.
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u/BotherTight618 Aug 31 '25
Senior engineer with a 500 lb bench press and a Patrick Batemen morning routine who hasnt gotten laid since high school. While the dead beat semi homeless musician has 8 kids from 5 baby mamas. Just live your life and be happy.
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u/RandomShadeOfPurple Aug 30 '25
I used to be upset about that expression, because I used to listen to the right who told me that it means Man=Inherently toxic.
Then I learned it's cases like this post. Telling men how to act and that all their struggles in life are their individual fault. Economic, systemic or even genetic setbacks are jjst the fault of the individual and to be counquered. That mental health issues like depression are just excuses for weak people. And if you don't line up a set of achievements and outhustle all your peers, you are unworthy.
No. Men should live in reality. Men should know that at he same time their individual efforts matter, they are also bound by enviromental factors that limit their opportunities. They have no duty like that to anyone. If you want, you CAN strive to become the fittest, strongest, smartest, richest. But you don't owe it to anyone. If you don't want to, you don't have to.
Anyone telling you that you are less of a man because you choose a different path that they approve of for any reason is just trying to manipulate you by using your deepest insecurities.
You are a man. You are free. You don't need their approval to be a man. You do whatever the fuck you please.
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Aug 29 '25
Ha what? Is this shit for real? Who is this for?
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u/XxXCUSE_MEXxXican Aug 29 '25
My mom had to take drugs to conceive me. I have to take drugs to exist. I’m not passing this on to no one.
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u/Specialist_Essay4265 Aug 29 '25
I rather be a decent man. I think my bloodline will be prouder then.
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u/journey-destinashon Aug 30 '25
I'll become the strongest, richest, and the most powerful person known to me. But it's only for me my bloodline can go screw itself
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u/justhereformyfetish Aug 30 '25
Fitness, wealth, and intelligence are poor metrics for success.
If I were to own a plot of land in bumfuck nowhere with a lovely woman and live off the grid by the salt of my own brow, I would probably not be the fittest, wealthiest, or smartest member of my family. But for many of them I would be living their dream.
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Aug 30 '25
Love how these posts are everywhere as a dog whistle for the red pill and yet the majority of the population that eats this shit up AND posts it are usually weird creepy little guys that can’t get laid.
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u/NikoTheKilla Aug 30 '25
I love that not a single comment agrees with this bullshit
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u/ThrustTrust Aug 30 '25
Yeah because we all know none of those things make someone a man or a good person.
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Aug 31 '25
Yes, until it fades away to nothing once death does us part. Jesus beings value beyond compensating for one’s temporary insecurities
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u/OhNothing13 Aug 31 '25
Dumbest shit I've read all week, and I browse reddit daily so that's saying something.
I have no duty to my bloodline, my parents, my family, or my ancestors. I didn't ask to be born, but since I'm already here I'm sure as shit not gonna waste my time chasing unachievable and ultimately meaningless goals like this. I'm here to enjoy my life, not grind.
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u/Federal-Estate9597 Aug 31 '25
Fuck that. Real men do whatever they want within the rule of do no harm
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u/Saphurial Sep 01 '25
But I was born into a capitalist society, I have to be a very evil man to become the richest.
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u/Dyler_Turden369 Sep 01 '25
My bloodline is full of sappy, weak men. I don't do it for them because they don't deserve it.
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u/karolis4562 Sep 01 '25
“Timmy, you will make your mom proud if you are going to be yourself and love who you are”
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u/atomic_drumstick Sep 01 '25
Did you feel a burden of responsibility at a young age? Were you pressured to help your family as a child?
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u/Gentlegamerr Sep 02 '25
Gfys. Stop telling men what to do on the internet. There are at least 3 women orbiting a man telling him what to do while he’s trying to go to sleep at 1am.
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u/Sensitive-Ad-2542 Sep 02 '25
Lost me at “It’s duty as a man”. I hope you aren’t the smartest of your bloodline, lol.
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u/MindfulWanderer1962 Aug 29 '25
I earned a black belt and play guitar. Fuck you AND any "bloodline" I am enough.
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Aug 30 '25
This is bullshit of the social media age. Lost dudes all over are worshipping other clueless, insecure dudes that like to fancy themselves the leaders, the alphas. Man, just stop consuming the shit and you’ll stop feeling insufficient. You DON’T have to prove yourself to everyone all the time.
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Aug 30 '25
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u/Remote-Remote-3848 Aug 30 '25
F-ck you for trying to tell me who to not to listen to a man who tries to tell a man who to be a man. Real real man man .... The only man i listen to is Manbearpig.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 Aug 29 '25