{"id":8154,"date":"2021-07-17T21:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derekrake.com\/blog\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:19:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T23:19:45","slug":"how-to-be-a-better-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekrake.com\/blog\/how-to-be-a-better-man\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Be A Better Man (The V Theory)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>OK, first, let&#8217;s define what&#8217;s a &#8220;better man&#8221;. What I&#8217;m going to say here is, of course, my own definition. It&#8217;s not gospel. What you believe may be different, and that&#8217;s fine. Indeed, your answer to big questions like &#8220;how to be a better man&#8221; should be your own.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone is different, it&#8217;s true. Here&#8217;s the thing, though. If you pay attention, you&#8217;ll notice that successful guys have something in common, and it&#8217;s this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>They have a <\/em><strong><em>Vehicle<\/em><\/strong><em> they ride to massive self-improvement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s this Vehicle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s something we use as a focal point for our time, effort and energy. And as we develop better skills around the Vehicle, the improvement spills over to the other areas of our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question of &#8220;how to be a better man&#8221; is so broad it can be overwhelming. By choosing the right Vehicle, we narrow things down. The Vehicle forces us to muster all our efforts towards a single point. And as we improve in this one narrow area, everything else in our life will also improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do we choose a Vehicle then? Well, a good Vehicle must obey two conditions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One, it must be something meaningful and inspiring, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two, it must be specific.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me give you an example. I used to be horrendously terrible with women. After my sixth girlfriend dumped me for a bum who lived under the bridge, I fell into severe depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Promising myself to be better, I went on a desperate search for a solution. In the middle of my depression, I found Shogun Method, and it became my Vehicle for self improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know Shogun Method, it&#8217;s about using hypnosis to attract women. Like anyone, I was skeptical at first, but guess what, it worked, at least for me. And I had a total blast, and I started dating women out of my league. I gotta confess&#8230; I became quite a man-slut. Blondes, brunettes, redheads&#8230; with Shogun Method, I seduced them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things were going great, but the best was yet to come. It all changed when Derek Rake told me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Jimmy, in every tool, there is a hammer.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I was quite baffled at first, to be honest. If you know Derek, he can be really cryptic, and it took me some time to understand him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it turned out, what he meant was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Every tool can be used to do something it&#8217;s not intended to do. This can be the most basic of things, like hammering. Sometimes, we&#8217;ve got to learn to see how to use a tool beyond its original purpose.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shogun Method&#8217;s original purpose is to seduce women with <a href=\"https:\/\/derekrake.com\/blog\/how-to-hypnotize-women\/\">hypnosis<\/a>. And so, I thought, could I use it beyond seducing women?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And as it turns out, I could pretty much use Shogun Method on anyone, not just women! Seduction is, after all, a form of persuasion, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, out of curiosity, I used Shogun Method on other people: my co-workers, my boss, my family, and even the barber. And guess what? I found that if I could hypnotize a woman, I could hypnotize anyone! Look&#8230; I can&#8217;t start to tell you how easy my life has been. People like and respect you more, and things get done more easily, too. It&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Not only that, it even works wonders on marriages. Shogun Method doubles up as <a href=\"https:\/\/derekrake.com\/blog\/how-to-train-your-wife\/#Wife-Submission-Training-Tactics\">wife submission training<\/a> if you know how to do it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s the weird thing&#8230; I even tried to use Shogun Method on myself. I used to be a terrible procrastinator, and I would do things only at the very last minute. In Shogun Method, there&#8217;s this thing called the <em><strong>&#8220;Classical Conditioning &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/derekrake.com\/blog\/analysis-usage-fractionation-joker-harley-quinn\/\">Anchoring<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em> trick. I used it on my girlfriend to make her behave in a way that I want, and it worked amazingly well. And guess what? I used the same trick to change my own behavior, and my procrastination problem went away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here&#8217;s what I want you to understand&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Success will always come to the man who acts with an unwavering focus in a specific direction. And the &#8220;V&#8221;, or the Vehicle, will give you that focus. With the Vehicle, you&#8217;ll move with purpose and realize your full potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bottom line: To be a better man, use the right Vehicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One last thing to remember, though&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose your Vehicle carefully, because if you do, you&#8217;ve already won half the battle. For me, I chose <a href=\"https:\/\/shogunmethod.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shogun Method<\/a>. It has helped me not just to be better with women, but to be a better man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, first, let&#8217;s define what&#8217;s a &#8220;better man&#8221;. What I&#8217;m going to say here is, of course, my own definition. It&#8217;s not gospel. What you believe may be different, and that&#8217;s fine. Indeed, your answer to big questions like &#8220;how to be a better man&#8221; should be your own. Everyone is different, it&#8217;s true. 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