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I've finally put the finishing touches on my new action-focused live program. I'm calling it Praxis Fortis, which in latin means "brave practical action". I'm tired of seeing people binge on content and get stuck in over-thinking, and so I've designed something to blast them out of that and give them a momentum of brave decision-making that will get them making real progress indefinitely. This cohort will accept no more than 5 people, and the criteria for joining are strict to ensure high quality participants. If I don't get at least 3 highly aligned people, I won't run the program. This is going to be all about quality and results. If you want to know more about this - check out the details here. Applications close on Friday. Dan

One of the main takeaways I had from Louis Theroux's documentary on the Manosphere was the new cultural norm of contempt for being a good person. Today I want to talk about why it is good to be good, and how relishing in being the bad guy is a sign of mental dysfunction and exceptionally low self-worth, and is therefore a faulty model of living if you want a high quality enjoyable life. As neuroscientist and commentator Sam Harris recently pointed out, the bad guys used to at least pretend they were good. They had to pretend in order to get away with being bad. But these manosphere influencers openly brag about being awful people, and on occasion even openly admit to scamming their loyal followers and customers. So I wanted to write to the few people who will read this and make a case for being a good person. Firstly, I must define what a “good person” is without devolving into pages of philosophical argument. So for the sake of this article, being a good person simply means "you intend to take actions that make life better for those around you as well as yourself." This is not to be confused with people-pleasing, which is a manipulation to give the appearance of being a good person. While the behaviours can often appear to be the same - e.g. self-sacrificing acts of kindness - the intention is different. People pleasers have the primary motive of seeking approval and validation. A genuine Good Person does things for the sake of being good, even if this means being misunderstood, unappreciated, or even hated. To further clarify what it means to be good, we can also define what it means to be bad. For the sake of this post, being “bad” means intentionally doing acts that you know are likely to harm others, for your own gain. Either the goal itself is to cause harm (sadism), or you’re simply willing to cause harm to achieve another goal even when a less harmful way is available, e.g. choosing to make money ripping people off instead of earning it honestly. Being “bad” is not the same as being assertive or doing necessary harm for the greater good. Being a good person sometimes means doing things that people don’t enjoy because in the longer term it would create a higher quality of life, e.g. hosting an intervention for a drug addict, giving a staff member critical feedback, or even using minimal violence at a small scale to prevent violence at a much larger scale.

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