Episode Highlights:
- Elliott Hulse introduces himself.
- What is Elliott’s perspective on masculinity and how has it changed?
- Most boys grow up with either a lack of fatherhood or fathers that have been taught that masculinity is toxic.
- What are other important things to help boys to become men?
- Elliott’s brother went through a four-day fast by sitting on a rock.
- They talk about sexual energy and polarity.
- You want your partner to want to have sex with you and not feel obligated to have sex with you.
- How can men cultivate more masculine energy?
- Saints come from rough lives.
- What would he do differently in his life?
- Being a monk, being married, being a father, and creating something amazing to benefit others are ways to best use your energy instead of wasting on selfish self-gratification.
- ‘Mortify’ yourself by letting weaker parts of yourself die.
- Men protect and expand.
3 Key Points:
- Becoming a man is about suffering, sacrifice, tough love, a sense of dignity, and atonement.
- Men with no mission, dignity, or purpose may be pushed towards using their masculine energy to chase strictly sexual relationships with women, consuming porn, and playing video games.
- Ways to cultivate more masculine energy include: strength training, challenging yourself physically and mentally, having a life of focus and purpose, and embracing boredom and not needing novelty and excitement.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “I’m a strong man… I’m a father. I’m a father figure, to maybe millions of men worldwide. I’m a strength coach. I owe Strength Camp, and I make men strong again. That’s my mission in life.” - Elliott Hulse
- “The way boys become men has been completely erased from our society.” - Elliott Hulse
- “The fact is, that a boy only knows himself as a separate gender if he has something to mirror, something to look at, and someone to introduce him into the way of man.” - Elliott Hulse
- “The only way a man becomes like his father is by mentorship, by watching, by seeing, by hearing, being in his presence. It is a teaching.” - Elliott Hulse
- “When she starts denying sex and you start begging. Now you know, polarity is gone, dude. You can’t make her want to have sex with you. You have to actually be someone she wants to have sex with.” - Elliott Hulse
- (Dangers of Isolation) “That’s when demon obsession can creep in. That’s when the demons can come in, when you are by yourself. ‘Oh, man life sucks.’ All the negative thinking starts to rise to the surface.” - Elliott Hulse
Resources Mentioned:
Book: The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
