How do I man up?
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How do I man up?
>>17273581
Whats the situation ?
Do you need to man up and have a punch up with someone ?
Has your girl called you a little bitch and told you to "man up" ?
>>17273581
I don't know the situation, but what motivates me is honestly thinking about my own mortality and place in history. No one is going to care 100, or even 50 years from now if I failed or was rejected. In the same way, given that you have around 70 years on this planet at best and then oblivion, why not to everything you can to bring solid happiness and contentment into your life. That likely means doing something hard, letting toxic people go, telling someone how you truly feel (not in an autistic, high school, roundabout way), and work towards making yourself a better, more interesting and whole human being, confident in your ability to choose your actions.
That's what manning up means, doing the hard stuff because you'll be a better person for it.
>>17273581
you don't 'man up', you learn to stand on your own two feet, set up your own morals to live by and live life the way you want to.
Most people will recognize this and admire you for it, but at the end of the day all that matters is how you feel about yourself and the goals you set up for your self.
You don't need to be 'manly' to live a good, fulfilling life. Sorry if that sounds preachy as fuck, but seriously. Stop worrying about being a certain way, because nobody actually cares in the end about that shit. All that matters is you've lived a fulfilling, confident life.
>>17273759
If you want to be respected, do not follow this advice
>>17273759
Yep, and read Epicurean and Stoic philosophy, I'm 100% serious
http://www.epicurus.net/en/principal.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Epicurus/menoec.html
>>17273581
>How do I man up?
Put some makeup and a dress.
>>17273770
>Thinking being respected is a measure of worthiness
13. If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
>>17273581
Watch mad men and pick your favorite personality characteristics of Don Draper and Roger Sterling.
You know that awesome shit you should be doing that you've been putting off? Do that shit.
>>17274016
Also take this quote from the character Terukichi Miyata, from Yukio Mishima's "The Sound of Waves"
>The only thing that really counts in a man is his get-up-and-go. If he's got get-up-and-go he's a real man, and those are the kind of men we need here on Uta-jima. Family and money are all secondary.
>>17273759
This guy gets it. When you stop caring about what others might think about you and do what you feel is right, then you´re truly a free man.
Hear what sjw's say. And then do the opposite
