<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Paul's Substack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Information to help men level up and get better with women.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ST4W!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f790bb6-6688-49ec-a7e0-7082de8fb135_1080x1080.png</url><title>Paul&apos;s Substack</title><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:23:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[comeonmanpod@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[comeonmanpod@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[comeonmanpod@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[comeonmanpod@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[The Sexless Marriage Isn't Just In Your Head. It's In Your Blood Work.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The biological chain reaction a sexless marriage sets off inside a man, from cortisol to testosterone to your heart, and why guilt-tripping her with the science is the worst move you can make.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-ignore-what-a-sexless</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-ignore-what-a-sexless</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:01:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GpKO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bb3bdcc-ad5a-49cd-b983-9311390c98d9_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right now, while you&#8217;re trying to push through your workday, your body is reading your marriage as an active physical threat response. It&#8217;s running in the background, draining your testosterone, spiking your cortisol, wrecking the focus you need to do your job. You feel tired and short-tempered and foggy and you blame the job, the age, the stress. It&#8217;s none of those. It&#8217;s your sexless marriage, and it&#8217;s doing measurable damage to your body right now.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the part that matters, though, and it&#8217;s where almost every man screws up. You&#8217;re going to be tempted to take this straight to your wife. </p><p><em><strong>&#8220;See, honey, look what you&#8217;re doing to my cortisol!&#8221;</strong></em></p><p>Don&#8217;t. She doesn&#8217;t give a shit, it won&#8217;t work, and it&#8217;ll make everything worse. Stay with me to the end, because the way out isn&#8217;t the science, it&#8217;s what you do with it, and that&#8217;s the part I&#8217;m saving for last.</p><div id="youtube2-IN6mSrAwc2k" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;IN6mSrAwc2k&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/IN6mSrAwc2k?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>It Starts In Your Head And Spreads Everywhere</h3><p>Start with your brain, because the damage starts there and leaks into everything else.</p><p>Every time she rejects you, your brain files it, and over months of it, rejection becomes your baseline expectation. That&#8217;s the setting your whole nervous system now runs on. And it doesn&#8217;t stay in the bedroom. It bleeds into every corner of your life, because the brain generalizes threat. You start second-guessing yourself on projects that have nothing to do with your wife. You become the guy who checks with everyone before he commits to anything, who softens every opinion, who&#8217;s trying to keep the peace with the whole world. The confidence you used to have at work erodes right alongside the confidence you lost at home, because to your brain it&#8217;s the same wound.</p><p>This is how a nice guy gets even more beta, and not just around his wife. Around everybody. You get more accommodating, more of a people-pleaser, more desperate for everyone to like you, and every bit of that makes you less attractive, which feeds the rejection, which deepens the baseline. It&#8217;s a loop, and it&#8217;s tightening while you read this. This is chapter one of <a href="https://mybook.to/GHTFYA">Get Her To F*ck You Again</a>, the betatization process, and understanding it is where the whole thing turns around. <em>Grab a copy,</em> because you can&#8217;t reverse a process you didn&#8217;t even realize was happening.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Your Cortisol Never Comes Down</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the physical layer underneath the mental one. Touch regulates your nervous system. Physical affection, sex, being wanted, all of it tells your body the threat is off and you can stand down. Take that away and the alert never shuts off. Your cortisol stays elevated, all day, long after you&#8217;ve left the house.</p><p>Walking into work already tense makes you react strongly to minor frustrations that you would normally ignore. For managers, this irritability often spills over onto team members. Maintaining constant high stress consumes the mental energy required for focus, patience, and physical recovery, leaving you exhausted by the end of the day.</p><p>When I was married, I struggled with a severe temper. My father had the same issue; after my mother raised concerns, his doctor prescribed Prozac, attributing his anger to underlying depression. However, no one addressed the core factors driving the behavior. Anger is not always a simple chemical imbalance. It often serves as an indicator that key areas of your life require fundamental changes.</p><p>Following my father&#8217;s recommendation, I also took Prozac for a short period. While it reduced my anger, it left me feeling entirely detached and unmotivated. The medication muted my emotions rather than resolving the actual issues causing the distress. Masking the problem with medication is not the solution. It took years to realize that genuine progress required targeted effort on my mental frame and emotional control.</p><h3>Ninety Days And Your Testosterone Starts Dropping</h3><p>Now the one that reaches into everything. Your testosterone starts dropping after about ninety days without sex. Ninety days. Your body treats inactivity as a signal to conserve, so the longer sex stays gone, the more it throttles production back. And as your T drops, your motivation, your muscle, and your mood drop right along with it, which of course kills your libido further, which extends the dry spell, which drops your T more.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what almost nobody connects: this shows up on your blood work years before you ever trace it back to your marriage. Guys get their levels checked and they&#8217;re shocked, especially after forty. And a lot of them are sitting in the low 300s and getting told that&#8217;s &#8220;normal.&#8221; That&#8217;s a normal level for an eighty-year-old man. If you&#8217;re in your late thirties or forties and you&#8217;re down there, that&#8217;s a problem, and it&#8217;s why you&#8217;re moody and foggy and pissed off at nothing. Go get your levels checked. Contrary to the roid-rage myth, men with testosterone near optimal are more even-keeled, clearer, less raged out, not more. 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Your sleep quality craters, because the vasopressin and physical release that help regulate deep sleep aren&#8217;t coming. It&#8217;s the same reason a man bangs one out and passes right out. Without it, you&#8217;re stuck in lighter, more restless sleep, and as sleep quality drops, your recovery, memory, and mood control all suffer the next day. The exhaustion compounds over months, so the fatigue you keep blaming on work is actually your dead bedroom following you to the office. </p><p>You&#8217;re tired because you&#8217;re not fucking. Full stop.</p><p>And your heart takes the final hit. It&#8217;s already working overtime under chronic stress, cortisol up, sleep gone, testosterone down, and because that stress keeps your blood pressure elevated, the strain never lets up. Over years, your cardiovascular risk climbs in the background, and it climbs faster in men with no outlet at home for sex or affection. Stack on the fact that you&#8217;re probably not training, gaining weight, running on garbage sleep, and you&#8217;ve got a man whose whole system is grinding itself down, all traceable back to a bedroom that went cold.</p><h3>The Fix Is Never Showing Her This</h3><p>So here&#8217;s where you don&#8217;t fuck it up. Every instinct is telling you to take this to your wife. Print out the cortisol study, cue up this article, make your case. </p><p>&#8220;See what this is doing to me? YOU need to fix this!&#8221;</p><p>It won&#8217;t work. It has never worked. You can&#8217;t guilt-trip a woman into desire, and the science is not going to make her want to fuck you. Worse, a man pleading his medical case to his wife is broadcasting the exact needy, approval-seeking energy that killed her attraction in the first place. You&#8217;d be trying to negotiate your way back into her wanting you, and desire doesn&#8217;t negotiate. You&#8217;ll come off weaker, and she&#8217;ll pull away harder.</p><p><em>You can&#8217;t fix your wife</em>. You can only change yourself into a man she actually wants again, and here&#8217;s the thing that should light a fire under you: fixing this fixes everything else on this list at the same time. <em>Rebuild real attraction</em> and the sex comes back, and when the sex comes back, your testosterone climbs, your cortisol drops, your sleep repairs, your confidence returns at work and everywhere else, and your heart stops grinding. A good bedroom is upstream of your whole life. That&#8217;s not a coincidence, it&#8217;s the reason I say helping men get better with women makes them better men across the board. It all operates through the same wiring.</p><p>The action to take isn&#8217;t another pointless conversation. It&#8217;s becoming the man she was attracted to before the slow slide, and doing it for you, not to earn anything from her, because a man doing it to earn sex is still begging and she can smell it. <a href="https://mybook.to/GHTFYA">Get Her To F*ck You Again</a> on Amazon or Audible lays out the exact sequence to rebuild that attraction from your side, and the <a href="https://workbook.fixdeadbedrooms.com">companion workbook</a> turns it into daily action instead of theory. <em>Get both</em> and actually work the plan, because reading about becoming more attractive and doing it are two different things.</p><p>And the fastest way to do it is around other men doing the same work, guys who&#8217;ll call out the beta patterns you can&#8217;t see in yourself. That&#8217;s <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, and this one&#8217;s got a hard deadline. <strong>Prices go up tonight at midnight EDT</strong>. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at ten bucks a month for as long as you stay a member, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before midnight, because after tonight the price is gone for good.</p><p>Your body&#8217;s been sounding the alarm for months, and you&#8217;ve been blaming the job, your age, and everything except the actual cause. Now you know what&#8217;s really draining you, and you know the fix was never a conversation with her. So stop trying to show her the damage, and go<em> become the man who reverses it</em>.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-ignore-what-a-sexless/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-ignore-what-a-sexless/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Version Of Your Future Is Sitting In The Field Right Now. You're Already Picking One.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the version of you that shows up every day is a frequency and not a fixed fact, and how to start choosing it on purpose.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-version-of-your-future-is-sitting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-version-of-your-future-is-sitting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGmg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6589d6d4-0d3c-4abb-b1a1-39a254e16b67_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Picture the guy you&#8217;d be if the ceiling came off. The income, the body, the way you carry yourself in public, the way people respond to you. That version of you is real. It exists right now as a genuine possibility, sitting in the field alongside every other version you could become.</p><p>So does the version who stays exactly where you are. That one&#8217;s in the field too.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what nobody told you. You&#8217;re already picking one of them. Every day, through the identity you run on autopilot, you&#8217;re selecting which version becomes real and which ones stay possibilities you never touch. Most men are doing this without knowing they&#8217;re doing it. Stay with me to the end, because once you understand who&#8217;s actually doing the picking, you stop leaving the most important choice of your life to a machine running on old programming.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGmg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6589d6d4-0d3c-4abb-b1a1-39a254e16b67_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZGmg!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6589d6d4-0d3c-4abb-b1a1-39a254e16b67_1024x572.jpeg 424w, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>You Are Not As Separate As You Feel</h3><p>Start with the assumption almost every man carries without questioning it. You&#8217;re separate. Separate from other people, separate from the world, separate from the circumstances that arrive from outside and act on you. A contained unit, operating inside a universe that runs independent of you.</p><p>The physics says that assumption is wrong. Not wrong in some debatable philosophical way. Wrong in a way that&#8217;s been tested in controlled experiments for decades.</p><p>Two particles that interact become entangled. Their states lock together and stay linked no matter how far apart they travel. Measure one and the other is instantly determined, in the same lab or on opposite ends of the galaxy. Einstein hated this. He called it spooky action at a distance and spent years trying to prove the particles were just carrying hidden information all along. Experiments were built to test exactly that. The hidden information explanation lost. The connection is real, it&#8217;s instant, and distance does nothing to it.</p><p>The universe, at its foundation, does not treat separation as absolute. Things that look separate stay connected in ways classical physics can&#8217;t account for. The Hermeticists said the same thing in 1908 with their principle of correspondence, that everything is connected across every plane, and the separation we see is a feature of the level we live on, not the deepest truth about what&#8217;s actually there.</p><p>Now put yourself in that picture. If separation isn&#8217;t absolute at the foundation, then the boundary you feel between yourself and everything else isn&#8217;t as solid as it seems from the inside. You&#8217;re not a sealed unit floating in a void. You&#8217;re a localized expression of a connected system, and when you set an intention, you&#8217;re not firing a wish into empty space. You&#8217;re a node in a network that distance doesn&#8217;t cut.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Your Identity Is A Frequency, Not A Fact</h3><p>Most men carry a fixed picture of who they are. It got assembled over years, from the feedback of their environment, the labels that stuck early, the conclusions they drew, the patterns they repeated so long they started to seem like personality. That picture seems solid. It seems like fact.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t fact. It&#8217;s a frequency you&#8217;ve been running.</p><p>That distinction changes everything, because a fact about your nature can&#8217;t be changed and a frequency can. Take the word emotion. Break it apart and you get e-motion. Energy in motion. That&#8217;s an accurate description of what an emotion actually is, a state of energetic activity in the body with a measurable frequency. David Hawkins mapped these on a scale. Shame down at twenty. Courage at two hundred. Love at five hundred. Your dominant emotional states are specific frequencies, and they make up a huge part of what you experience as your identity moment to moment.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4lMq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a09d2a9-92ba-44d1-9aba-0cdeee4be94d_1264x843.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4lMq!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a09d2a9-92ba-44d1-9aba-0cdeee4be94d_1264x843.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4lMq!, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4lMq!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6a09d2a9-92ba-44d1-9aba-0cdeee4be94d_1264x843.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Your brain encodes that identity the same way it encodes any habit, through repetition. The thoughts you&#8217;ve thought about yourself the most, the beliefs about your worth and your ceiling that you&#8217;ve reinforced for years, are physically wired into neural networks that fire automatically. They produce the constant experience of being a particular kind of guy, and because it runs automatically and never stops, it seems like identity. But automatic isn&#8217;t the same as permanent. A habit is automatic. It&#8217;s still a habit.</p><p>The neuroscience is clear on this. The brain rewires itself in response to what you repeatedly ask it to run. The networks encoding your current self-concept got built through repetition. They get rebuilt through repetition of something different. Same mechanism that installed the old identity installs a new one. Your self isn&#8217;t exempt from the principle of vibration. It&#8217;s a frequency like everything else, and it changes the same way, by changing the frequency.</p><h3>The Observer Behind Everything</h3><p>Here&#8217;s where four of the seven Hermetic principles come together, and if this is the first one of these you&#8217;re reading, don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;ll get them fast.</p><p>Mentalism said the foundation of reality is mental, and your attention has a measurable effect on matter. Correspondence said your inner world produces your outer conditions. Rhythm said everything moves in cycles you can read and work instead of fight. The union of masculine and feminine said your conscious mind plants what your subconscious grows. Every one of those points at the same place, and this is it.</p><p>In quantum mechanics, before anything is observed, all possible outcomes exist together in what&#8217;s called superposition. Every version that could happen is present in the field as a possibility. The one that becomes actual is the one selected by observation. The field doesn&#8217;t choose. The observer chooses, even when he&#8217;s choosing without realizing it.</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Out there, beyond the limits of our perceptual apparatus, is the erratically ambiguous and ceaselessly flowing quantum soup. And we&#8217;re almost like magicians in that in the very act of perception we take that quantum soup and we convert it into the experience of material reality in our ordinary everyday waking state of consciousness.&#8221;</strong></p><p><strong>~Sir John Eccles, <span>Neurophysiologist </span></strong></p></blockquote><p>Most men are choosing without realizing it. They collapse the possibilities of their own lives every day through the identity they run on autopilot, the beliefs operating below awareness, the default state they bring to every moment. The field responds to the observer it gets, not the observer the guy wishes he were. And the observer most men bring is the conditioned product of their past, running automatically, picking from the narrow range of possibilities that old frequency makes visible.</p><p>There&#8217;s a part of you that can step outside all of that. NLP calls it the third party observer, the capacity to step back and watch your own thoughts the way you&#8217;d watch someone else, instead of being lost inside them. Most men are fully inside their thoughts. A thought about being inadequate arrives and they&#8217;re in it, believing it, acting from it, with no gap between the thought and the one thinking it. The observer creates a gap. It&#8217;s the part of you that can notice a thought instead of just running it.</p><p>The Hermetic tradition identified this observing awareness as the I AM. When Moses asked God to identify himself, the answer was I AM. Not I am this specific thing. Just I AM. Pure awareness of being, prior to any label attached to it. Run that through correspondence, as above so below. The I AM in you is the localized point where the universal awareness expresses through your particular perspective. It&#8217;s the observer whose observation collapses infinite possibility into the specific reality you actually live.</p><p>When you operate from that position, you&#8217;re not identified with the content of your conditioned thoughts anymore. You&#8217;re the awareness those thoughts appear inside of. And from there you have something you don&#8217;t have while you&#8217;re buried in the content. You have a real choice about which frequency you run, knowing the frequency you choose is the one that gets planted in the subconscious, grown by the generative pole, and expressed in your outer conditions.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6hFe!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36c81866-1c89-4b83-885d-f55d5992b490_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6hFe!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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They fire and he follows, because there&#8217;s no space between the pattern and his experience of it. The man who can step into the I AM observer position puts distance between what happens and how he responds. Choice lives in that space. He can watch a belief about himself arise and evaluate it instead of obeying it. Is this true? Is this a frequency I&#8217;m choosing, or one that got installed without my say that I&#8217;ve just kept running by default?</p><p>That&#8217;s what becoming a conscious creator means. Not forcing a separate universe to obey you through effort. Recognizing you were never separate from it, seeing the patterns your history installed, and choosing from the I AM position which ones you keep and which ones you replace, then driving the replacement in through consistent repetition until it&#8217;s the new automatic.</p><p>This is the whole arc of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>. Seven ancient principles, laid next to the modern physics and neuroscience that keep arriving at the same structure, built into one operating manual for running the process on purpose. And here&#8217;s the promise I&#8217;ve made every week on the show and I&#8217;ll make it again. You don&#8217;t have to believe the quantum part. You don&#8217;t have to buy the mysticism or be sold on any of it. You just have to <em>pick it up</em> and run the practices, because this is universal law, and universal law doesn&#8217;t wait for your belief before it works. Water takes the shape of the glass whether or not you accept that it will. This works the same.</p><p>Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and Audible are all live right now, so <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">get whichever format</a> fits how you actually take in a book, and start this week.</p><p>That version of you from the start, the one with the ceiling gone. He&#8217;s in the field right now, same as he was before you read any of this. The observer decides which version becomes real. For your whole life that observer has been running on programming you didn&#8217;t choose. Now you know it&#8217;s there, you know it&#8217;s you, and you know it can be aimed. So aim it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-version-of-your-future-is-sitting/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-version-of-your-future-is-sitting/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hermetic Law Of Gender: Why Your Subconscious Never Got The Memo Your Conscious Mind Sent]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Hermetic law of gender, and why your conscious and subconscious minds have been pulling against each other for years.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/two-forces-run-inside-you-and-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/two-forces-run-inside-you-and-one</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:01:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdAE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ef22f64-ed81-4fc1-84e3-aa0a91bbdc09_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two forces are running inside you right now, and one of them has been wrecking your results for years without you knowing it. You set the goal. YYou made the plan and pushed through the execution. And you still hit the same ceiling, over and over, working with half the power you actually have available.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what almost nobody explains. You set the intention with your conscious mind, but your subconscious never got the memo, so the two halves of you have been pulling in opposite directions this whole time. Get them aligned and your results stop plateauing, and the woman in your life feels the difference even when she can&#8217;t say why. Stay with me to the end, because the fix comes from a principle almost nobody in the self-improvement world talks about, and once you see it you can&#8217;t unsee it.</p><div id="youtube2-fz5PzFNwwpA" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;fz5PzFNwwpA&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fz5PzFNwwpA?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>What Is The Hermetic Law Of Gender</h3><p>This comes out of the Kybalion, the 1908 book on Hermeticism written by three anonymous authors who called themselves the Three Initiates, laying out the seven Hermetic principles said to trace back to Hermes Trismegistus and ancient Egypt. The seventh of those principles is the law of gender, and it&#8217;s the one people misread the most.</p><p>The law of gender says: </p><blockquote><p><strong>Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.</strong></p></blockquote><p>This has nothing to do with biology and nothing to do with acting more like a woman. Rollo Tomassi <a href="https://therationalmale.com/2011/11/21/kill-the-beta-2/comment-page-2/">wrote an essay</a> cursing Carl Jung for convincing pop culture that every man is walking around with some unexpressed feminine side he needs to get in touch with. And here&#8217;s the irony most people miss: Jung was into Hermeticism and the occult himself, which shaped his ideas on the shadow and synchronicity. But the Hermetic version was never about feelings. It&#8217;s about function. Two forces in the act of creation. One projects, one receives and builds. Neither one creates anything alone. You need both.</p><p>You see the pairing once you know to look. The seed and the soil. The sperm and the egg. Positive and negative charge in electricity. North and south poles in magnetism, the &#8220;as above, so below&#8221; pattern showing up at every scale. And the one that matters for your frame: the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. That&#8217;s the masculine and feminine pairing you actually operate every day, and getting those two into alignment is what this comes down to. This is chapter seven of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>, out now on Amazon in every format including audio, and it might be the most useful chapter in the book for any man working on his frame. <em>Grab a copy,</em> because what comes next only makes sense once you understand the two forces.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Masculine Conscious Mind Sets Direction</h3><p>Your conscious mind is the masculine, projective force. It&#8217;s the part reading this right now, the part that directs, chooses, and decides. It sets the intention and sets it in motion. But it doesn&#8217;t build the result itself. It plants the seed and hands it off.</p><p>Now a guy hears &#8220;the subconscious is feminine&#8221; and goes, men build everything, what are you talking about? And men do build everything. But how? You plan it. You form the intention and set it in motion, and then the actual building runs underneath your awareness. Every great idea to take an action you&#8217;ve had came bubbling up from your subconscious when you weren&#8217;t forcing it, in the shower, driving, out on a run, whenever your conscious mind went quiet enough to let it surface. Those ideas didn&#8217;t come from your conscious mind grinding away. They came up from the deeper layer.</p><p>The conscious mind has a helper standing guard, and this is where your frame lives or dies. It&#8217;s called the critical faculty, or the critical factor. Think of it as a bouncer outside a club checking IDs, deciding what gets in. Its job is to check incoming information against what your subconscious already believes, your existing paradigms and worldview, and reject anything that doesn&#8217;t match.</p><p>This is the exact reason you can&#8217;t red pill your friends. You can explain hypergamy, you can explain Briffault&#8217;s Law, you can hand them every truth you&#8217;ve learned, and their critical faculty rejects all of it, because it contradicts the fairy tale already installed in their subconscious. It usually takes some woman slapping the goggles off their face at rock bottom before that bouncer finally lets the new information through. Your subconscious programming is guarded, and the guard doesn&#8217;t care whether the thing it&#8217;s blocking is true. It only cares whether it matches what&#8217;s already inside.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdAE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ef22f64-ed81-4fc1-84e3-aa0a91bbdc09_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdAE!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ef22f64-ed81-4fc1-84e3-aa0a91bbdc09_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdAE!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, 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Your subconscious is the feminine, generative force, and it does not judge what you feed it. Whatever gets past the bouncer, it accepts and starts building, no questions asked. It doesn&#8217;t argue. It doesn&#8217;t check whether the belief helps you. It receives the impression and generates the matching reality, and it runs at least 95% of your actions while it does it.</p><p>That&#8217;s the mechanism, and it cuts both ways. Every belief installed in you by accident growing up, everything you absorbed about money, about relationships, about what you&#8217;re capable of, got developed and expressed with the exact same reliability as anything you ever tried to plant on purpose. Your subconscious never asked whether it was good for you. It just received it and got to work. This is the connection between frame and the subconscious mind that almost nobody makes: your frame isn't something you stage for others to see. It&#8217;s whatever your subconscious actually believes, leaking out through your tone, your posture, the moves you make and the ones you talk yourself out of. And a woman reads that with total accuracy, which is why a shaky frame can&#8217;t be faked for long.</p><p>In The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians, written by the same author under a different pseudonym, the law of gender is called something slightly different: the law of sex, which is tied directly to sex transmutation. If you&#8217;ve read Napoleon Hill&#8217;s Think and Grow Rich, you&#8217;ve seen this: Hill called sexual energy the real underlying force behind creation and the law of attraction. It&#8217;s true for making humans, and it runs on the mental plane too, between the masculine conscious mind that projects the intention and the feminine subconscious that develops it into a real result.</p><p>You can think of the conscious mind planting a seed into the subconscious mind just as a sperm fertilizes an egg. It&#8217;s the exact same act on the mental plane that occurs on the physical plane. You&#8217;re basically fucking your idea or intention into the subconscious mind!</p><h3>Why Your Frame Keeps Breaking</h3><p>Now the problem that&#8217;s been draining you. Most men set a conscious intention that their subconscious flat-out contradicts.</p><p>You consciously decide &#8220;I&#8217;m a confident man who builds wealth.&#8221; Meanwhile your subconscious, loaded years ago with the belief that money is scarce and men like you don&#8217;t get to have it, is generating the opposite signal. The two forces pull against each other. The masculine sets one direction, the feminine builds a different one, and you get chaos, because an unguarded, misaligned subconscious will run all kinds of goofy self-sabotaging behavior while you wonder why you keep working hard and getting nowhere. You&#8217;re operating at half power because half of you is fighting the other half.</p><p>You can&#8217;t fix that by piling on more conscious effort. You fix it by bringing the subconscious into alignment with the conscious intention, and the way you do that is repetition plus emotion. The subconscious learns through repeated, emotionally charged input, which is why an I AM statement said flat once does nothing, and the same statement driven in with real feeling over and over reprograms the belief underneath. You&#8217;re using the masculine faculty on purpose to plant what you actually want, then guarding it so the old programming stops running the show. Get the conscious and subconscious pulling the same direction and the full generative power of both becomes available. The physics even backs the shape of it: electromagnetism can&#8217;t exist as an electric field alone or a magnetic field alone. The two are inseparable, each one generating the other, and the result only exists because of the pairing. Your conscious intention and your engaged subconscious work the same way.</p><p>That&#8217;s the whole point of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>. It takes the seven Hermetic principles, lays them next to the modern neuroscience and physics that keep confirming them, and hands you the method to actually run the alignment instead of nodding at the idea. And here&#8217;s the promise I make every week on the show. You don&#8217;t have to believe the woo woo, the quantum stuff, or the neuroscience. You just have to follow the instructions and you get results. There&#8217;s no way it can&#8217;t happen, because this is universal law. Water takes the shape of the glass whether you believe in it or not. <em>Pick it up on audio</em> and listen on repeat, because repetition is the exact mechanism that installs a new belief in the first place.</p><p>You get those two forces aligned faster around men doing the same work, men whose reticular activating system is already tuned to catch the old programming you can&#8217;t see in yourself. That&#8217;s <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, and there&#8217;s a reason to act now. Prices go up Monday at midnight. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at current pricing for as long as you stay a member, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before Monday.</p><p>Go back to the two forces I opened with. One sets the direction, one builds the result, and for years yours have been pulling against each other and calling it bad luck. Now you know what they are and how to line them up. So what&#8217;s one belief running in your head right now that you never actually chose? Find it, and you&#8217;ve found the exact thing to point both forces at next.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/two-forces-run-inside-you-and-one/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/two-forces-run-inside-you-and-one/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Spent Six Years In The Navy’s Nuke Program, Then Four Years Cracking Modern Dating. Here's What He Learned.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The dating advice for men that reads like an engineering manual: why attraction has a 48-hour expiration date, why your vetting checklist is costing you women, and the red pill approach that skips the]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/he-spent-six-years-in-the-navys-nuke</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/he-spent-six-years-in-the-navys-nuke</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:01:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tExO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f6dddc0-e365-452d-a86a-d49db89ae80a_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s the brutal reality of modern dating most men learn too late: attraction has an expiration date, and it&#8217;s about 48 hours long. You met a woman, you got her number, you felt the spark. Then you waited. Played it cool. Texted a few days later to set something up for next week. And she flaked, or ghosted, or hit you with some other nonsense the day of.</p><p>You didn&#8217;t lose her because you weren&#8217;t good enough. You lost her because you moved too slow in a world built to move fast. My guest today figured this out the hard way and then did something almost nobody does. He goes by <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Nuclear Caudillo&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:163814554,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d50d918b-9e1f-4880-8ecb-a2385f0b9947_400x400.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;2679b06e-a5f4-424f-8858-2090eff7f9bb&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, and he wrote it all down. Six years in the Navy running a nuclear reactor, then four years dating three times a week in Dallas, taking notes on every single one. Those notes became a Twitter thread, the thread became a book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCKJL6SX">The Art of Dating</a>, and it reads like an engineering manual. No pep talk, no theory, no bullshit. Stay with me to the end, because the last thing he told me came from one line in the book I couldn&#8217;t get past, and it reframes this whole thing.</p><div id="youtube2-D1BPfi_ANVU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;D1BPfi_ANVU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/D1BPfi_ANVU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>The 48-Hour Rule</h3><p>Start with the rule that opens the book, because it&#8217;s the one that fixes the most common way men lose. You&#8217;ve got 48 hours. That&#8217;s it.</p><p>Think about what her phone looks like. She&#8217;s getting bombarded with messages from other guys, event invites, a new brunch spot opening, content designed to make her flake, content designed to make her sad. In any 48-hour stretch, a hundred things can change her mind about showing up. Attraction has to stay warm, and it cools fast. The tingles need a consistent drip. Most guys think one woman flirted with them once and three months later she still likes them. She doesn&#8217;t. She forgot. This is dating app fatigue and ghosting in dating explained in one sentence: she&#8217;s overstimulated, she&#8217;s got options, and your window is short.</p><p>So the further out you schedule the date, the higher the flake rate climbs. Plan a week out and she cancels because it&#8217;s too far away. Seventy-two hours is a gamble unless she&#8217;s a responsible type-A woman who honors her calendar. Forty-eight hours is the limit. Anything past that, don&#8217;t be shocked when she bails.</p><p>But here&#8217;s where he separates himself from the grandstanding crowd, and it&#8217;s why his stuff actually works. If she can&#8217;t meet inside that window, you still ask her out. You don&#8217;t quit just because you can&#8217;t optimize the situation. That mentality, if I&#8217;m not tall enough, if I don&#8217;t have the perfect window, if I don&#8217;t have the right cologne, is exactly why most men never try at all. He&#8217;ll tell you he&#8217;s walked outside with his dog pissing down his leg, had a woman stop to pet the dog, and chatted her up with a stain on his pants. No amount of optimization beats action done with confidence. This whole approach is what <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCKJL6SX">The Art of Dating</a> is built on, and <em>grab a copy</em> now, because the next piece is the one most red pill dating advice gets dead wrong.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Women Aren&#8217;t The Enemy. They&#8217;re Self-Interested.</h3><p>Here&#8217;s what makes this guy different from the woman-bad timeline you scroll every day. He got red pilled in 2014, read The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi, the whole nine. Then he actually went out and dated at volume, and a lot of the abstract stuff people scream about online didn&#8217;t hold up in the field. He found he didn&#8217;t dislike women. He had mostly positive experiences. And the number one thing people said about his thread, including his own family, was &#8220;you seem very human.&#8221;</p><p>That&#8217;s what he thinks red pill dating advice is missing. A human approach. Most of it is grandstanding, macho, kick-the-bitch-to-the-curb stuff, and it doesn&#8217;t work. Women aren&#8217;t out to get you. They&#8217;re self-interested. So why not be a little self-interested yourself, learn how they actually operate, and stop making half the population your enemy? You can&#8217;t live thinking 50% of the world is against you. You&#8217;ll be stressed out of your mind.</p><p>This connects to one of his sharper points on hypergamy and how women move through the world. Women vote and act in their own best interest, always, and men should learn to do the same. His version of AWALT isn&#8217;t &#8220;all women are terrible.&#8221; It&#8217;s closer to &#8220;assume she&#8217;s self-interested and plan accordingly,&#8221; which protects you without requiring you to hate anyone. That reframe alone, the abundance mentality without the bitterness, is why guys who are tired of the angry stuff keep gravitating to him.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tExO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f6dddc0-e365-452d-a86a-d49db89ae80a_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tExO!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4f6dddc0-e365-452d-a86a-d49db89ae80a_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tExO!, 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Every guy obsesses over game, the perfect thing to say, the right frame, the charisma. He says game is real, but it&#8217;s downstream of something almost nobody talks about. Logistics.</p><p>His line stuck with me. Trying to have game without logistics is like wanting to be good at Call of Duty without owning a PS5. You can read about it all you want. If you don&#8217;t have the console, you&#8217;re not playing. Game is the skill you run once you&#8217;re in front of a woman, alone, on a date or on the street. But you can&#8217;t practice any of it if you haven&#8217;t set your life up to keep putting yourself in front of women in the first place. No logistics, no reps. You&#8217;re just stuck waiting for someone to bring a PS5 around.</p><p>So he engineers it. His six-step method turns one bar into his home field. He becomes a regular, tips well, gets to know the staff, and builds it into a place where they know his name and her parking is handled before she even walks in. Now every date runs on his turf, where he&#8217;s got status baked into the environment before she arrives. That&#8217;s not luck and it&#8217;s not natural charisma. It&#8217;s a system a nuclear engineer built on purpose, and it&#8217;s laid out step by step in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCKJL6SX">The Art of Dating</a>.</p><p>He runs his actual dating life like organized sales, and he&#8217;s upfront that it sounds cold. A woman flakes, he moves to the next lead, keeps the warm ones warm with inside jokes and nothing sexual. He frames it as respect, honestly. He&#8217;s organizing his life so he doesn&#8217;t waste anyone&#8217;s time, his own included. And underneath every bit of it is outcome independence. He asks her out regardless. He keeps his expectations reasonable. If she pushes to next week and vanishes, he already knew it was low percentage, so it costs him nothing. That&#8217;s the calm that comes from having options, and options come from logistics.</p><h3>Why He Left That One Line In The Book</h3><p>Here&#8217;s what I couldn&#8217;t get past, and the reason you should read this thing cover to cover. Somewhere in the book he wrote that he was never a good man and doesn&#8217;t think he ever will be. And he left it in. For anybody to read.</p><p>I asked him why. Because most guys writing a dating book are selling you the polished, tuxedo-and-Ferrari fantasy version of themselves. This is the opposite. It&#8217;s a man who got zeroed out, heartbroken, raised in a way that gave him a warped relationship with women and sex, who clawed his way to competence and then refused to airbrush the wreckage out of the story. That honesty is the reason it resonates. It doesn&#8217;t read like a guru pretending to be a master. It reads like a regular guy who kept careful notes and told the truth about all of it, the wins and the parts he&#8217;s not proud of.</p><p>That&#8217;s the version of this that actually helps you, because you&#8217;re a regular guy too. You don&#8217;t need the fantasy. You need the manual. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCKJL6SX">The Art of Dating</a> is on Amazon, a hundred lessons with no theory and no filler, and <em>pick it up today</em> if you&#8217;re tired of dating advice written by guys pretending they&#8217;ve never been rejected in their lives.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the thing no book does on its own: put other men around you who are practicing the same experiments. That&#8217;s what <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> is, a group of regular guys leveling up together, comparing notes on what&#8217;s actually working in the field instead of what sounds good on a timeline. There&#8217;s a reason to act now, too. Prices go up next week, Monday at midnight. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at ten bucks a month for as long as you stay a member, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before Monday.</p><p>Go back to that 48-hour window. The next woman you meet, you&#8217;re not going to sit on her number for a week and wonder why she ghosted you. You&#8217;re going to move while the attraction&#8217;s still warm, on your home field, with the calm of a man who&#8217;s got options. That&#8217;s the difference between reading about it and owning the console.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/he-spent-six-years-in-the-navys-nuke/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/he-spent-six-years-in-the-navys-nuke/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which AI Gives The Best Relationship Advice? Wrong Question. None Of Them Will Tell You This.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, and every other AI give you the same blue-pilled marriage advice, where that advice actually came from, and the question you should be asking instead.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-asked-ai-why-your-marriage-feels</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-asked-ai-why-your-marriage-feels</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:01:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jhfL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c7ccb4-271f-4765-b249-5aebfef2b3a2_1792x1008.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You typed it into ChatGPT at midnight. &#8220;Why won&#8217;t my wife fuck me?&#8221; And it gave you a thoughtful, reasonable answer about communication, about sitting her down and talking through your feelings, about active listening.</p><p>You got the exact advice a marriage counselor would&#8217;ve charged you two hundred bucks an hour for. And it&#8217;s the same advice that&#8217;s already failed millions of men, because every AI out there, ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Claude, all of them, pulls from the same model that&#8217;s been striking out for decades. Stay with me to the end, because I&#8217;m going to show you where that advice actually came from, why it sounds right and fails anyway, and the one question you should be asking instead. That last part is where this turns around for you.</p><div id="youtube2-9k7MYX_teyk" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;9k7MYX_teyk&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/9k7MYX_teyk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Where Marriage Counseling Actually Came From</h3><p>Here&#8217;s a fact almost nobody knows, and it&#8217;ll change how you see every &#8220;have you tried talking to her&#8221; answer you&#8217;ve ever gotten. Modern American marriage counseling grew out of the eugenics movement.</p><p>One of the fathers of marriage counseling in this country was a man named Paul Popenoe. Before he opened his marriage clinic in Los Angeles in 1930, he was one of the most prominent eugenicists in America, a guy who wrote in favor of forced sterilization and who admired the racial-purity programs picking up steam in Germany at the same time. Marriage counseling in its early form was never built to keep the average couple happy. The metric was birth rates, not marital joy. The fear driving it was that the educated white middle class was having fewer kids while immigrant and minority populations grew. So counselors graded couples on their so-called genetic fitness. If a couple was deemed fit, the job was to keep them together to produce children, whether they were happy or not. If they were deemed unfit, the institution pushed them apart.</p><p>That&#8217;s the soil this whole industry grew out of. It was never engineered to make you and your wife want each other. It was engineered to manage reproduction. They softened the model in the 1950s and rebranded it around communication, but the DNA of the thing was set long before that.</p><p>And here&#8217;s why it matters to you right now. AI was trained on that same body of work, decades of classic couples therapy built on that foundation. So when you ask it why your marriage is dead, it hands you the therapist&#8217;s script, because that script is what it learned from. This is the reason I wrote <a href="https://mybook.to/GHTFYA">Get Her To F*ck You Again</a>, because the actual fix lives nowhere in that training data. <em>Grab a copy,</em> because everything I&#8217;m about to explain is why free AI advice keeps failing you.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Track Record Nobody Quotes</h3><p>Set the origins aside for a second and look at the results, because the numbers are ugly.</p><p>Around 40% of couples who go to therapy are divorced within four years anyway. Nearly half. And even that undersells it, because some therapists count a &#8220;well-managed divorce&#8221; as a successful outcome, which means the stats are cooked to look better than reality. The 70 to 90% success rates you see quoted online come from therapy-industry sites like BetterHelp and private practices, citing old single-study numbers, and they measure emotional well-being, not whether the marriage survived.</p><p>Zoom out further. First-time marriages fail around 50% of the time. Of the half that stay together, only about half of those report any real marital satisfaction. Run that math and marriage itself has something like a 75% failure rate, and marriage counseling does nothing to move that number. So when your wife says &#8220;we need to go to counseling,&#8221; understand what the data says you&#8217;re signing up for. If your only goal is saving the marriage, you&#8217;re close to flipping a coin, and paying out the ass for the privilege.</p><p>Now you understand the setup. You&#8217;ve got a therapeutic model built for something other than your happiness, a track record that&#8217;s mediocre at best, and an AI trained on that failed model, handing it back to you for free at midnight. Which brings us to why the advice itself, the actual content, keeps failing.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jhfL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c7ccb4-271f-4765-b249-5aebfef2b3a2_1792x1008.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jhfL!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c7ccb4-271f-4765-b249-5aebfef2b3a2_1792x1008.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jhfL!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, 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/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jhfL!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_1456, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_auto, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87c7ccb4-271f-4765-b249-5aebfef2b3a2_1792x1008.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Communication Was Never The Key</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the lie sitting at the center of all of it. Communication is the key to a healthy relationship.</p><p>You&#8217;ve heard it a thousand times. It&#8217;s wrong. Communication is the key to conflict resolution, sure. But the key to a healthy, passionate marriage is genuine burning desire, and desire isn&#8217;t a conversation. Ask any AI and it&#8217;ll tell you desire fades over time and can&#8217;t be the foundation, which is only true if you have no idea how to keep inspiring it. In the red pill space we keep that desire alive through frame and game, and sometimes <a href="https://dread.fixdeadbedrooms.com">through dread</a>. You will never get that from ChatGPT, and you will never get it from a marriage counselor, because their entire model is built on talking your way to peace, not building attraction.</p><p>There&#8217;s a married red pill guy named JackTenofHearts who put this better than anyone, and his words are pinned in <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> because every man needs to hear them. He said if you want to fuck your wife and she&#8217;s not fucking you, you can&#8217;t fix that directly, not the way you were led to believe. Your wife knows you want her. She&#8217;s not confused about it. So this was never a communication problem where you sit her down and go &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize it bothered you that I leave the towel on the floor, I&#8217;ll stop.&#8221; She already knows. The towel was never the issue.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the reframe that changes everything. The question was never &#8220;how do I get her to fuck me.&#8221; The question is &#8220;how do I become more fuckable.&#8221; You can&#8217;t control whether she wants you. You can only control being the kind of man she wants, and then let the wanting follow. That&#8217;s outcome independence, and it&#8217;s the exact opposite of the negotiation every therapist and every AI pushes you toward.</p><p>Which is the joke buried in my own book title. It&#8217;s called <a href="https://mybook.to/GHTFYA">Get Her To F*ck You Again</a>, because that&#8217;s what every man in a sexless marriage is desperate for and it&#8217;s what makes him click. But read it and you find out fast that you can&#8217;t get her to do a damn thing. You can only work on yourself, become more attractive, more dominant, more like the man she married, and let her attraction rebuild the same way it broke, one action at a time. The provocative title gets you in the door. The actual content is the road map for becoming that man, and it&#8217;s the exact thing no AI will ever hand you, because its training says the answer is a better conversation.</p><h3>What To Ask Instead</h3><p>So stop asking AI why your marriage is dead. It&#8217;s the wrong question run through a broken model, and you already feel that it goes nowhere, because you&#8217;ve had the talk and the talk changed nothing in the bedroom.</p><p>The right question isn&#8217;t about her at all. It&#8217;s &#8220;what specific actions make me the man my wife wants again,&#8221; and that answer doesn&#8217;t come from a system trained to protect her comfort and keep the peace. It comes from men who&#8217;ve actually rebuilt a dead bedroom from the inside. <a href="https://mybook.to/GHTFYA">Get Her To F*ck You Again</a> on Amazon or Audible lays out the exact sequence, and the <a href="https://workbook.fixdeadbedrooms.com">companion workbook</a> turns it into daily action instead of theory you nod at and forget. <em>Get both</em> and do the work in them, because reading about becoming more attractive and actually doing it are two different things.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the piece AI can never give you no matter how good the prompt: other men in the same fight, who&#8217;ll tell you the truth your wife won&#8217;t and the machine can&#8217;t. That&#8217;s <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, where guys post their real situations and get real answers from men who&#8217;ve climbed out of the exact hole. There&#8217;s a reason to act now, too. Prices go up next week, Monday at midnight. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at ten bucks a month for as long as you stay a member, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before Monday.</p><p>You went to a robot at midnight because you didn&#8217;t know where else to go. Now you know why it gave you nothing, and you know what to ask instead. So quit trying to talk your way back into her wanting you, and go become the man she can&#8217;t stop thinking about. That&#8217;s the only thing that ever moves the needle, and it&#8217;s the one answer the robot was built to never give you.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-asked-ai-why-your-marriage-feels/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-asked-ai-why-your-marriage-feels/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've Been Running Somebody Else's Beliefs About Money Your Whole Life]]></title><description><![CDATA[How your conscious mind plants an idea and your subconscious grows it, and why most men are living out beliefs they never chose.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/your-subconscious-cant-tell-what</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/your-subconscious-cant-tell-what</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:02:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BnwX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd82f66f5-1d5b-4006-a637-e800edca3561_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think about what you believe you&#8217;re capable of earning. Not what you want. What you actually believe, down in your gut, about the ceiling on your income.</p><p>Now ask yourself where that number came from. You didn&#8217;t sit down one day and decide it. You absorbed it. Years of hearing the adults around you talk about money a certain way. Years of watching what people like you did and didn&#8217;t do. It got installed, one repetition at a time, and it&#8217;s been running the show since long before you noticed it was there.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the part that matters. The part of your mind holding that belief can&#8217;t tell the difference between what you chose on purpose and what got put there by accident. It treats both the same. It develops both. It expresses both in your life with the exact same reliability. Stay with me, because once you understand how that mechanism works, you get access to the same lever that installed the belief in the first place, and you can start using it on purpose.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BnwX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd82f66f5-1d5b-4006-a637-e800edca3561_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BnwX!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd82f66f5-1d5b-4006-a637-e800edca3561_1024x572.jpeg 424w, 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>Masculine And Feminine, In Everything</h3><p>The seventh Hermetic principle is the one almost nobody talks about, and that&#8217;s a mistake, because it describes how every creative act works. The principle is gender, and the Hermeticists weren&#8217;t making a point about biology. They were pointing at two universal forces, masculine and feminine, that operate on every level of reality, from the subatomic to the cosmic.</p><p>The masculine is the projective force. It initiates, it directs, it carries a specific intention outward and plants it. The feminine is the receptive and generative force. It takes what got planted, develops it, and brings it to full expression. Neither one produces anything alone. The masculine without the feminine projects into a void. The feminine without the masculine holds all the generative power in the world and no direction to aim it. Creation needs both poles. It always has.</p><p>You see this everywhere, because the principle is everywhere. The seed and the soil. Chemical affinity, atoms drawn to combine and form something neither one was alone. Positive and negative electrical charge pulling toward each other to make current flow. In every case where something new comes into existence, a masculine force provides the direction and a feminine force provides the power that develops the direction into a real result.</p><p>Now bring both poles into your own head, because this is where it stops being philosophy and becomes the most useful tool in the book.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Conscious Mind Plants. The Subconscious Grows.</h3><p>Your conscious mind is masculine in its function. It&#8217;s the projective pole. It chooses. It focuses. It directs your attention and sets your intention. It&#8217;s the part reading these words right now, deciding what to accept and what to reject.</p><p>Your subconscious mind is feminine in its function. It&#8217;s the receptive pole. It does not evaluate. It does not judge what gets handed to it. It receives, and then it builds. Whatever your conscious mind plants into it with enough repetition and enough emotional charge, the subconscious accepts as true and starts working to express in the physical world. It never asks whether the planted idea helps you or limits you. It never asks whether you chose it or inherited it. It receives the impression and it generates the matching reality. That&#8217;s its function, and it runs that function every time without fail.</p><p>This is why your life, in every area, is the output of what got planted in your subconscious over years of repetition. The belief about what you can earn got developed and expressed as faithfully as any goal you set on purpose. The subconscious drew no line between the two. It built both.</p><p>So here&#8217;s the practical consequence. If you want to change what your subconscious is expressing in your life, you have to change what your conscious mind is planting. You have to use that masculine projective function on purpose. You choose the specific belief you want, and you drive it in through repetition and real emotional engagement until it becomes an actual impression instead of a passing thought.</p><p>A thought that crosses your mind once and disappears plants nothing. That&#8217;s a seed dropped on concrete. The subconscious does not engage with anything that hasn&#8217;t been driven in with enough force and repetition to register. Your conscious mind has to do the work, aiming focused attention and charged intention at the specific belief you want built, over and over, before the subconscious receives it and starts to grow it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m3Ma!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F85631569-bebe-489e-8161-0cd9e0c624dd_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m3Ma!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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believe.</p><p>When you speak an I AM statement with genuine feeling and repeat it consistently, you&#8217;re doing the masculine projective work on purpose. You&#8217;re planting the seed you chose instead of leaving the soil to keep growing whatever got planted by default years ago. Said flat, once, staring at a mirror with no feeling behind it, it does nothing. Said with real emotional weight, driven in through repetition, it becomes an impression, and the subconscious starts organizing your perception, your instincts, your habits, and the signal you put out toward expressing it.</p><p>That&#8217;s not the universe granting a wish. It&#8217;s a mechanism receiving its input and doing what it always does.</p><p>Here&#8217;s where most men are stuck, and they don&#8217;t know it. They&#8217;re running a conflict. The conscious mind sets an intention. The subconscious, still running the old belief installed years ago, holds the opposite. The conscious intention says &#8220;I AM building real wealth.&#8221; The subconscious, loaded with years of messages about money being scarce and hard and meant for other kinds of people, generates a competing signal. The two poles pull against each other. The result is partial at best.</p><p>You can&#8217;t fix that by forcing more action on top of it. You fix it by resolving the conflict at the source, bringing the old subconscious belief into alinement with the conscious intention through the same repetition and emotional engagement, until both poles run in the same direction. When they do, the full creative power of the masculine and feminine working together becomes available. When they fight, you get a fraction of it, and you feel that fraction as working hard and getting nowhere.</p><p>The physics backs the structure of this. Electromagnetism, the force holding every molecule in your body together, can&#8217;t exist as an electric field alone or a magnetic field alone. The two are inseparable. A changing electric field generates a magnetic field. A changing magnetic field generates an electric field. Remove either one and the wave stops existing. The phenomenon is the product of both working in relationship. Your conscious intention and your engaged subconscious work the same way. The result comes from their union or it doesn&#8217;t come at all.</p><p>That&#8217;s the core of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>, and this principle is the most directly useful one in the whole book. It lays the ancient framework next to the modern science that keeps confirming it, and then it gives you the part almost nobody hands you, the actual method for planting what you want on purpose instead of living out what circumstance installed. And I&#8217;ll give you the same promise I give on the show every week. You don&#8217;t have to believe the quantum stuff. You don&#8217;t have to buy the mysticism or be sold on any of it. You just have to <em>pick it up</em> and run the process, because this is universal law, and universal law doesn&#8217;t wait for your belief before it works. A seed doesn&#8217;t check whether the farmer believes in it before it grows.</p><h3>What Other People Read On You</h3><p>There&#8217;s a payoff to this work that shows up in how people respond to you.</p><p>The man who has done the internal work carries himself different. Not because he learned to act more confident. Because the conflict between what he wants and what he believes is possible is gone. He&#8217;s not managing a contradiction under the surface. He's running one unified system, and that registers in his presence whether people can put it into words or not.</p><p>Women read this with accuracy. The difference between a man who is whole on the inside and a man masking wholeness over a different program underneath is something they detect fast. The genuine version carries a certainty that doesn&#8217;t need anything external to prop it up, because it&#8217;s generated from the inside. The man who needs things going well externally to feel solid internally fluctuates, and that fluctuation is readable. He&#8217;s steady when results are good and shaky when they&#8217;re not. The man with real internal coherence holds steady through both, because his foundation isn&#8217;t sitting out in his circumstances. It&#8217;s built in.</p><p>That&#8217;s what makes a man attractive over time instead of just at the start. Early attraction runs on surface signals. Sustained attraction in a relationship needs something that can&#8217;t be faked for long, because a woman living with a man sees him across every phase, when he&#8217;s on and when he&#8217;s tested. Real coherence holds through all of it. A performance eventually cracks when conditions press hard enough.</p><p>Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and Audible are all live right now, so <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">pick up whichever format</a> fits how you take in a book and start doing the work.</p><p>That belief about your income, the one from the start, the one you never actually chose. It got planted the same way anything gets planted. The mechanism that installed it is the same mechanism you now know how to run yourself. So the real question is which beliefs you&#8217;re going to plant on purpose from here, now that you know the soil grows whatever gets put in it.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/your-subconscious-cant-tell-what/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/your-subconscious-cant-tell-what/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing In Your Life Happened By Chance. Every Result Has A Cause You Set.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every result you've got traces to a cause you set, most without knowing it. Here's where that cause actually comes from, and how to start setting the ones you want.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/nothing-in-your-life-happened-by</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/nothing-in-your-life-happened-by</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:01:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bhgk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F100332a6-178e-41a2-b99a-c63e7d72f6d5_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every result in your life right now, your bank account, your body, your marriage, is sitting there because something set it in motion. It&#8217;s an effect, and most men never trace it back far enough to find the actual cause, so they spend their lives reacting to results and never once understanding the thing producing them.</p><p>Today I&#8217;m showing you that cause, the one you&#8217;ve been operating on autopilot without ever knowing it was there. Stay with me to the end, because the last piece is where you stop being the guy things happen to and become the guy setting what happens next, and almost nobody makes that change because they never see where the cause is hiding. </p><div id="youtube2-AyMu1HSAm2w" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;AyMu1HSAm2w&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AyMu1HSAm2w?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Chance Is Just A Law You Weren&#8217;t Aware Of</h3><p>The sixth Hermetic principle, cause and effect:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Allow me to reiterate, chance is a name for law not recognized. When something looks random, that means you haven&#8217;t traced the chain back far enough to see the cause. It doesn&#8217;t mean there wasn&#8217;t one. Nothing in your life happened by accident. Every result you&#8217;ve got traces back to a cause you set, and most of them you set without any idea you were doing it. You&#8217;ve been operating the law by accident your entire life.</p><p>This is chapter six of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>, now out on Amazon in every format including audio, and cause and effect might be the principle that changes how you see your own life the fastest. <em>Grab a copy</em> while this is in front of you, because what comes next only makes sense once you&#8217;ve got the law underneath it.</p><h3>Why This Isn&#8217;t Karma</h3><p>Most guys hear cause and effect and think karma. A moral scoreboard. Do good, get good. Do bad, get bad. It settles up across lifetimes, and whatever wreckage you&#8217;re sitting in must be the universe punishing you for something.</p><p>The Hermeticists stripped the morals out. Their version came out of Egypt and Greece, karma came out of India, and if you boil both down they hit the same core truth: nothing you put into the world disappears. It&#8217;s always causing something. But the Hermetic version has no moral accounting attached to it and no waiting for the next life. It&#8217;s neutral. It doesn&#8217;t care whether you were good or bad. It only cares about causes and effects, and that changes everything for you, because it means you can start setting new causes right now, this life, today, no matter what came before. The most horrible person alive can change the causes he&#8217;s setting this afternoon and get different effects going forward. There&#8217;s no cosmic debt to pay off first. There&#8217;s just the next cause you set.</p><p>Look at the difference in plain terms. Elon Musk didn&#8217;t get where he is because the universe blessed him. He made specific choices, took specific risks, held specific beliefs. Somebody who grew up the exact same way ended up in drugs and poverty because of the choices he made, not because the universe was punishing him. Apply this to the man stuck in scarcity right now. He&#8217;s getting the precise result his internal patterns were built to produce. No payback, no cosmic scoreboard. Just cause and effect doing what it always does.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Cause Is Upstream Of Everything You Do</h3><p>Here&#8217;s where it gets useful. The Hermeticists said mental causes outrank physical ones, and they were direct about it. A physical cause only produces a physical effect. But a mental cause creates effects on every plane at once, physical, emotional, mental. It starts in the mind. Which makes sense, because the first Hermetic principle is that the universe is mental to begin with, so the mind is where the real leverage sits.</p><p>So trace the chain. Your results come from your actions. Your actions come from your thoughts. Your thoughts create the actions, the actions create reactions, and the reactions create your results. That&#8217;s the sequence, cause to effect, link by link, all the way from a thought in your head to the life sitting in front of you.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the part that most people don&#8217;t realize. Around 95% of what you do in a day runs on habit, on your subconscious, not on conscious choice. This is backed by neuroscience. Think about your morning. You get up, take a shit, brush your teeth, shower, same basic sequence every day, all of it on autopilot while your conscious mind is somewhere else. It&#8217;s the reason you get your best ideas in the shower or driving or on a run, because the routine&#8217;s handled by the subconscious and your mind&#8217;s free to wander.</p><p>Put those two facts together and it makes a lot of sense. If 95% of your actions come from subconscious thoughts, and your actions cause your results, then 95% of your results came from thinking you don&#8217;t even know you&#8217;re doing. You&#8217;ve been setting causes on autopilot your entire life and then acting surprised at the effects. That connection, the subconscious as the hidden cause under everything, is what <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> is built to make usable, and it&#8217;s the reason the guy who gets this operates one level deeper than the guy still trying to fix his life by changing his actions alone. <em>Take note of this</em>, because most people spend decades attacking the effect and never once touch the cause.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bhgk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F100332a6-178e-41a2-b99a-c63e7d72f6d5_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bhgk!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, 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Most men live their entire lives down at the effect level. Something happens, they react. Something else happens, they react to that. They&#8217;re a ball in a pinball machine, getting knocked around by whatever hits them, convinced life is just happening to them at random.</p><p>The man who understands cause and effect stops living down there. He quits reacting to the results and goes upstream to the cause, which is his own thinking, most of it running below the surface. He gets deliberate about the thoughts he&#8217;s feeding his subconscious, because he knows those are the actual causes setting his future results in motion right now. Your beliefs and choices today create your future the same exact way your past beliefs and choices created the life you&#8217;re living today. It&#8217;s precise, it&#8217;s mechanical, and once you see it you can&#8217;t unsee it.</p><p>But you can&#8217;t change a cause you can&#8217;t see, and 95% of yours are invisible to you, running underneath awareness. So the work is dragging them up into the light. Catching what you actually think on autopilot, the beliefs you never chose, the patterns installed by other people years ago, and swapping them for causes you set on purpose. This is inner-game work, the exact thing every one of my books circles back to, because changing your actions while the subconscious cause stays the same just means you drift back to your old patterns the second you stop doing the work. You have to go to the cause.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the promise I make on the show every week. You don&#8217;t have to believe the quantum stuff or the neuroscience. You just have to follow the directions and you get results. There&#8217;s no way it can&#8217;t happen, because this is universal law. Water doesn&#8217;t check whether you believe in it before it takes the shape of the glass. <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> lays the seven principles next to the research that keeps confirming them, in plain English, then hands you the instructions that turn the principles into results. Do everything in it and ninety days from now you&#8217;re running a different operating system. <em>Pick it up on audio</em> and listen to it on repeat, because repetition is how a new cause gets wired into the subconscious in the first place.</p><p>You change those causes faster around men doing the same work, men who&#8217;ll catch the old patterns you can&#8217;t see in yourself, because your blind spots are blind to you by definition. That&#8217;s <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, and there&#8217;s a reason to act now. Prices go up September 1st. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at current pricing for as long as you stay a member, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before the first.</p><p>Go back to where we started. Every result in your life is an effect of a cause you set, most on autopilot, most without knowing. Now you know where the cause actually lives, up in the 95% you&#8217;ve never examined. So when would <em>now</em> be a good time to go find it and start setting causes on purpose?</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/nothing-in-your-life-happened-by/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/nothing-in-your-life-happened-by/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[After The Divorce, Your Kid Is Building His Definition Of Love Out Of How You Treat His Mom]]></title><description><![CDATA[The lessons your kids absorb from a divorce you think they're not watching, and the one most fathers hand their children without ever knowing they did it.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-think-nobodys-grading-you-on</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-think-nobodys-grading-you-on</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:00:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KnjB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26900f4e-30f0-40b1-98e3-ca6badfa68ef_1280x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You think nobody&#8217;s grading you on this divorce. Your son is. Right now, today. He&#8217;s watching how you talk about his mom, how you handle her when she&#8217;s pushing every button you&#8217;ve got, and he&#8217;s building his definition of what love is supposed to look like out of whatever you hand him this afternoon.</p><p>Every exchange you have with your ex is getting recorded. Not on a phone. In your kid&#8217;s head. That&#8217;s the curriculum, and he&#8217;s enrolled whether you meant to teach the class or not. Stay with me to the end, because the back half is about the new woman in your life, and that&#8217;s where most divorced fathers hand their kids the worst lesson of the whole thing without ever once realizing they did it.</p><div id="youtube2-54HoNunUavg" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;54HoNunUavg&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/54HoNunUavg?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Every Text Is Evidence, Twice Over</h3><p>Start with the thing that wrecks men first, the text fights with the ex. You know the ones. She pushes a button, you fire back, old grievances come flying out, and now you&#8217;re two people hammering each other through a phone at 11pm.</p><p>That costs you on two fronts, and both matter. The first is legal. You think your divorce is finalized. It might not be. Mine finalized in January 2015, and a year later my ex filed a motion to drag me back to mediation because she wanted sole custody so she could move the kids to Denver. I had to go back to court and fight it. Here&#8217;s what I understood in that moment. Anything you put in writing, she can hold onto and use against you whenever it serves her, real or invented, and pull you back through the court system with it. So you give her zero ammunition. Some of the guys in <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> will tell you to get on your state&#8217;s co-parenting communication app, the moderated kind that keeps a clean record, and that&#8217;s solid advice. Keep every message to logistics. Business only, about the kids. Anything else she throws at you, you don&#8217;t take the bait. You don&#8217;t try to be her buddy, and you don&#8217;t get in the boxing ring with her.</p><p>The second cost is the one nobody&#8217;s thinking about mid-argument. Your kids are going to see and overhear how you handle their mother, over years. That&#8217;s the demonstration. They&#8217;re watching how you deal with her nonsense, and they&#8217;re taking notes on what a man does under pressure.</p><h3>The Block Rule Has One Exception</h3><p>I tell guys getting over a breakup to block their ex everywhere. Every channel. And the reason matters, because it&#8217;s the same reason underneath this whole article. It&#8217;s not a tactic to make her miss you. It&#8217;s because rejection breeds obsession, and a hurting man will sit there telling himself if I just say the right thing, do the right thing, I can fix this, we can be a family again. It never works. Rollo Tomassi&#8217;s seventh iron rule says it plain, that your time and effort are always better spent on new women than on ever trying to get back with an ex. So you block her, because right now you&#8217;re not strong enough to stop yourself from reaching out, and you know it.</p><p>But if you share kids, you can&#8217;t go full dark, and that&#8217;s the exception. You block her everywhere except the channels you need to coordinate the kids. Email, text, the co-parenting app, whatever it takes to handle logistics. Everything else, gone. You strip contact down to nothing but what raising your children requires, and not one inch more.</p><p>This is the exact work <a href="https://mybook.to/FTB">Forget That B*tch</a> is built to walk you through, the inner game of getting her out of your head so you can co-parent from a clear place instead of an open wound. Because a man still hung up on his ex can&#8217;t handle her calmly, and the kids feel every bit of that tension. <em>Pick it up now,</em> because the faster you get your own head straight, the faster you stop bleeding it onto them.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>They Love Her, And You Don&#8217;t Get A Vote</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the thing your ego doesn&#8217;t want to hear. No matter how you feel about her, no matter how she feels about you, your kids love both of you. They&#8217;ve got their own relationship with their mom, separate from yours, and it&#8217;s real.</p><p>So when your ego takes over and you badmouth her in front of them, poison them against her, you&#8217;re not hurting her. You&#8217;re hurting them. To a kid, half of who they are is mom and half is dad. Run her down and the child hears that half of themselves is garbage too. You think you&#8217;re scoring a point on your ex. What you&#8217;re actually doing is teaching your kid to feel split down the middle about who they are.</p><p>Keep it on the kids. Keep it on their well-being. When she comes at you with her nonsense and the kids are in earshot, they get to watch a man stay level instead of a man detonate. That composure is a lesson too, and it&#8217;s one of the better ones you can hand them.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KnjB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26900f4e-30f0-40b1-98e3-ca6badfa68ef_1280x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KnjB!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F26900f4e-30f0-40b1-98e3-ca6badfa68ef_1280x720.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KnjB!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, 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A lot of guys have never been alone a single stretch of their adult lives. They went from their parents&#8217; house to a place with a roommate to moving a girlfriend in, and they never once just sat by themselves at night. I was that guy after my divorce. Married fourteen years, with her fifteen, and being alone felt like a foreign country. So the second the house goes quiet, most men do the one thing they shouldn&#8217;t. They patch the hole with a new woman.</p><p>I watched a guy I know, a man who&#8217;s good with women, get out of a brutal breakup and jump onto the apps the same week. Inside a month he was in a new relationship, and inside that same month he was complaining to me that he didn&#8217;t even like her. She wasn&#8217;t this, she wasn&#8217;t that. I told him what was obvious from the outside. You didn&#8217;t heal. You grabbed the first woman who was nice to you because you couldn&#8217;t sit in the silence. That&#8217;s a rebound, and rebounds fail, because you carried every bit of your old baggage straight into it. Old paradigms poison the new relationship every time.</p><p>Now bring the kids back in, because this is the part that resonates. Your children are watching how you treat the new woman too. That&#8217;s on the curriculum with everything else. So if you rush into something before you&#8217;ve done the inner work, your kids don&#8217;t just watch you date. They watch you run the exact same broken patterns that ended your marriage, now with a new face across the table. You teach them that this is what relationships are. Dysfunction, on repeat, forever. You can swap out the woman all you want. If you don&#8217;t fix what&#8217;s underneath, you end up in the identical relationship with a different face, and your kids are in the front row taking notes on all of it.</p><p>That&#8217;s the reason I built <a href="https://mybook.to/FTB">Forget That B*tch</a> and the <a href="https://workbook.getoveryourex.us">workbook</a> around real inner-game work instead of feel-good breakup advice. You take at least six months before serious dating, and you use that time to actually heal, so the next relationship your kids watch is a healthy one instead of a rerun. The book gives you the tools. The workbook forces the honest answers out of you on paper, the ones that show you why you keep reaching for a woman to avoid being alone. <em>Get both</em> and do the work in them, because your kids are learning what love looks like either way. You get to decide what you teach them.</p><h3>What You&#8217;re Actually Handing Them</h3><p>Put it together. Keeping texts cordial, the block rule, keeping the ego out of it, taking the time to heal before the next woman, all of it comes down to one thing. Your kids are building their entire model of love out of what they watch you do after the marriage ended. You can hand them a man who stays composed, protects them from the war, does his own inner work, and shows them a healthy relationship on the other side. Or you can hand them a man at war with their mother who repeats his worst patterns with a new woman while they watch. One of those is getting installed. You pick which.</p><p>You do this better with other men who&#8217;ve stood exactly where you&#8217;re standing. Most guys going through a divorce have nobody, facing the hardest stretch of their life alone in a quiet house at 2am with no one to check them. That&#8217;s what <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> is, a group of men who&#8217;ve been through it and know the terrain, plus guys who&#8217;ll tell you to get on the co-parenting app and get your head straight before you do something you can&#8217;t take back. There&#8217;s a reason to act now, too. Prices go up September 1st. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at ten bucks a month for as long as you stay, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before the first, and stop doing the hardest part of this alone.</p><p>Your son&#8217;s already grading you. He started the day the marriage ended. So show him a man who handles the worst chapter of his life with his frame intact, because that&#8217;s the lesson that raises a son who does the same, and a daughter who won&#8217;t accept anything less from a man than what she watched you be.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-think-nobodys-grading-you-on/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-think-nobodys-grading-you-on/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Girl Should Be Certain You'll Give Her Orgasms, But Never Certain How]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why most women have never had a man take total charge, the chemical that decides whether she stays hooked, and how this stops being tactics you remember and becomes who you are.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/she-can-predict-every-move-youll</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/she-can-predict-every-move-youll</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:00:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J6ve!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87665fa2-5e6f-4733-a783-b8a0a16639cc_4000x2667.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ask yourself one thing before we get too far into this. Can your girl predict exactly what you&#8217;re going to do the next time you put your hands on her? The order, the pace, the same words at the same moments?</p><p>If she can, she&#8217;s sitting through a movie she&#8217;s seen a hundred times, and that&#8217;s the reason the sex is drying up. Not her age, not the length of the relationship, not some problem with her. She already knows how every scene ends before it starts. Most women have never had a man take total charge in bed. They&#8217;ve had plenty of sex with zero direction, two people reacting to each other, following whatever momentum builds, nobody steering. Stay with me to the end, because the back half is where this stops being a list of tactics you have to remember and becomes part of who you are, and that&#8217;s the piece that separates the guys whose wives can&#8217;t keep their hands off them after ten years from every guy wondering where it went.</p><div id="youtube2-NRic2XuLQDE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;NRic2XuLQDE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NRic2XuLQDE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>You&#8217;re Asking When You Should Be Leading</h3><p>It starts before you&#8217;re anywhere near the bedroom, and it starts with how you initiate.</p><p>Most guys, especially guys in a dead bedroom, are asking for it. &#8220;Hey honey, you wanna fool around?&#8221; That&#8217;s asking for permission, and asking for permission kills the mood before it starts. The second you open your mouth and get logical about it, you pull her out of the moment and drop her into her analytical brain, and the analytical brain is not the one that gets wet.</p><p>You seduce instead. You read her, and you escalate through touch. Kiss her neck, kiss her ears, take her hand, move her to the bedroom, all without turning it into a negotiation. She feels the moment build instead of getting asked to schedule it. And to be clear, because the professionally offended always miss this: you&#8217;re reading her the entire time. You&#8217;re watching her body language, watching how she responds to each step, and you escalate when she&#8217;s leaning in and you back off when she isn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s not forcing anything. That&#8217;s paying closer attention than the guy who needs it spelled out in words. If she&#8217;s genuinely not into it, you pull back, no problem. But you stop treating a verbal yes as the thing you&#8217;re hunting for and start reading the real signal her body&#8217;s giving you.</p><p>This is chapter ten of <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a>, the advanced dominance material, and initiating like a man who leads instead of a man who begs is where the entire thing starts. <em>Pick it up now,</em> because everything after this builds on it.</p><h3>Certain About The What. Never Certain About The How.</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the rule that changes everything, and it&#8217;s simple enough to remember forever. She should always be certain about the what and never certain about the how.</p><p>She needs to be dead certain that you&#8217;re going to get her to orgasm. That you&#8217;re going to give her a good time, every time, guaranteed. That certainty is the foundation, and it&#8217;s what <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a> is built to make true, because you can&#8217;t promise a result you don&#8217;t know how to deliver. But how you get her there has to stay unpredictable. The order, the pace, the location, the words, all of that you disrupt on purpose.</p><p>Because once she&#8217;s seen the exact movie enough times, she doesn&#8217;t want to watch it again. Maybe a handful of times. Maybe it carries a couple of years. Then it starts drying up, and now she&#8217;s got a headache every night, because it stopped being fun for her. Half of what men call a dead bedroom is just a man being boring in bed and not knowing that&#8217;s the problem. So you change the where and the how. Not always the bed at 10pm. Sometimes the kitchen counter. Sometimes the couch. Predictability is what you&#8217;re killing, because you can be anything to a woman except boring.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Chemical Almost Nobody Talks About</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the part that ties the whole thing together, and it&#8217;s pure brain chemistry. Dopamine. Everybody thinks it&#8217;s the pleasure chemical. It isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s the wanting chemical, the anticipation, the drive to get the reward. And it fires hardest when she can&#8217;t predict what&#8217;s coming.</p><p>This is the exact mechanism that makes slot machines addicting. If you pulled the lever and won the same small payout every single time, you&#8217;d get bored and walk away. The reason people keep pulling is that it&#8217;s unpredictable. Lose, lose, lose, small win, nothing, big win. Your brain never settles into certainty, so it keeps wanting the next pull. When the reward comes every time on schedule, the response flattens, because your brain already knows what&#8217;s coming. When it&#8217;s variable, the wanting never shuts off.</p><p>Your girl runs on the same wiring. The tension you build, the strategic pulling back before you give her more, two steps forward and one step back, the role play, all of it delivers variable reward and spikes her dopamine. That&#8217;s what gets her anticipating the next time, looking forward to you, thinking about it before you&#8217;ve even touched her. The pleasure itself gets delivered by other systems in the body. Dopamine is the anticipation, and anticipation is what keeps her coming back. Get this working and you understand why some men have wives obsessed with them a decade in while most guys watch it fade. <em>That's the difference between being wanted and being tolerated.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J6ve!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87665fa2-5e6f-4733-a783-b8a0a16639cc_4000x2667.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J6ve!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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completely controlled. Other nights it&#8217;s urgent and consuming. Here&#8217;s why you need both. The slow night carries more weight because she&#8217;s had the urgent ones. The urgent night carries more weight because she knows you&#8217;re capable of the slow burn. Each one makes the other hit harder. You don&#8217;t give her the full production every single time, either. Sometimes it&#8217;s a quickie. Sometimes it&#8217;s an hour. The variety itself is the point, because the second it becomes a fixed routine, her brain stops firing on it.</p><p>Most guys can&#8217;t do this, because they&#8217;ve got one gear and they use it every time. The man who can move between slow and urgent, long and quick, planned and spontaneous, is using variable reward on her without her ever knowing that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening. She just knows she can&#8217;t predict you and she can&#8217;t stop thinking about you. That entire system, the intensity shifts, the pacing, the variable reward structure, gets laid out in order in <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a> on Amazon or Audible.</p><h3>Where This Stops Being Tactics</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the back half I promised you, and it&#8217;s the part that actually matters most.</p><p>Everything I just walked through is behaviors. Things you do. And a guy with a set of sexual behaviors executes them inconsistently, forgets them, and reverts to his old patterns the second he&#8217;s tired or stressed. That&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re after. You&#8217;re after an internalized identity. The man who always delivers. When it&#8217;s part of who you are instead of a checklist you&#8217;re working through, you don&#8217;t have to remember any of it. You don&#8217;t think, okay, I need to tweak this three degrees to the right. You feel it and you know what you&#8217;re doing, because you&#8217;re that guy now.</p><p>You&#8217;ve already done this somewhere else in your life. Your job, a sport, some skill you&#8217;ve got. There was a point where you stopped thinking about the individual pieces and just did it. Driving a stick is the cleanest example. The first time, it was all conscious, clutch, gas, RPMs, timing the shift, watching everything at once. Now you get in and go, and half the time you arrive with no memory of the drive, because your subconscious took the wheel. That&#8217;s the target here. You get so good at delivering the experience, at getting her there consistently, that you stop thinking about it. It&#8217;s just something you do. It&#8217;s who you are.</p><p>Rollo Tomassi puts it one way. You&#8217;ve got to become the game. That&#8217;s what the book is actually building. Not a set of moves you perform. A man who delivers without trying, because it&#8217;s wired into his identity, and the way you wire it is repetition. That&#8217;s the reason every one of my books is built to be read or listened to more than once. The repetition seeps into your subconscious until the behavior becomes automatic, until it becomes part of your paradigm, part of who you are. <em>Get it on Audible</em> and play it on repeat, because that&#8217;s how it stops being something you do and becomes something you are.</p><p>You build that faster around men doing the same work. Most guys have nobody they can be real with about any of this, no one they&#8217;d call when things get hard, handling everything solo. That&#8217;s what <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> fixes, a group of over a hundred men who have your back the day you walk in. There&#8217;s a reason to act now, too. Prices go up September 1st. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at current pricing for as long as you stay a member, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before the first.</p><p>Go back to the question I opened with. Can she predict exactly what you&#8217;ll do? For most men the honest answer is yes, and now you know that&#8217;s a major problem. So become the man she&#8217;s certain will get her there and can never once predict how, and watch how fast she stops getting headaches. It&#8217;ll be a god damn medical miracle.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/she-can-predict-every-move-youll/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/she-can-predict-every-move-youll/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Low Point You've Ever Hit Was Already Building The Next Upswing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the slow stretch you're panicking about was never a sign something's broken, and what the man who reads his own cycles does differently than the man who gets rolled by them.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-thing-youre-calling-failure-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-thing-youre-calling-failure-is</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:03:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wcgi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f6e1a46-ade6-447c-8305-ca454ebaf520_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something in your life is contracting right now. Maybe the business went quiet. Maybe the relationship cooled off from where it was six months ago. Maybe your own energy and drive dropped and you can&#8217;t figure out why the fire you had last year won&#8217;t come back.</p><p>And somewhere underneath it, a quiet verdict has been forming. Something&#8217;s gone wrong. This is the new normal. This is where it all starts slipping.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what I want you to sit with before you accept that verdict. Nothing in your life that&#8217;s contracting right now is contracting permanently. Not the business. Not the relationship. Not your drive. Every one of those is moving through a phase of a cycle, and the phase is not the destination. You&#8217;ve just been taught to read a temporary downswing as a permanent failure, and almost every man makes the same misread.</p><p>Stay with me, because by the end of this you&#8217;re going to see the low stretch you&#8217;re in completely differently, and you&#8217;re going to stop wasting the one thing that low stretch is actually good for.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__oc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5573f4bd-577f-430a-bddb-b35b232131d9_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!__oc!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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everywhere, at every scale.</p><p>Stars are born out of gas and dust, burn for billions of years, then die in a way that seeds the next generation of stars. The carbon in your body was forged inside a star that died before the sun existed. Water runs from ocean to sky to land and back to ocean, and has since there&#8217;s been water. Seasons turn on the same loop every agricultural civilization in history organized itself around. Your own body runs on the circadian cycle, sleep and wake, push and recovery, and if you fight it long enough your cognition, your immune system, and your mental stability all start breaking down. The body was never built for constant uniform output. It was built for rhythm.</p><p>The Hermeticists stated this flat out as their fifth principle thousands of years ago. Everything flows out and in. Everything rises and falls. The swing in one direction is always equal to the swing back. Rhythm compensates, it doesn&#8217;t negotiate, and it doesn&#8217;t make exceptions for your business or your relationship or your motivation.</p><p>Modern physics landed in the same place from the opposite direction. The &#8220;empty&#8221; space between things isn&#8217;t empty and isn&#8217;t still. Down at the quantum level the fields that make up reality never stop oscillating, not even at absolute zero, not even with every particle stripped out. Physicists call it zero-point energy, the floor the universe can never drop below, and that floor isn&#8217;t stillness. It&#8217;s constant rhythmic fluctuation. The universe doesn&#8217;t have a resting state. It has a minimum activity state, and that minimum is a pulse.</p><p>So when your life moves in cycles, it isn&#8217;t a flaw in your life. It&#8217;s the single most fundamental pattern reality runs on, showing up at your scale the same way it shows up at every other one.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Why You Keep Misreading The Low Point</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the mistake, and once you see it you&#8217;ll catch yourself doing it in real time.</p><p>A business hits a slow quarter and the man concludes the business is failing. A relationship cools from its early intensity and he concludes the attraction is gone for good. His energy dips for a few weeks and he concludes something in him is fundamentally broken. Every one of those conclusions is a man observing one downswing of a pendulum, with no view of the whole arc, and deciding the pendulum is just going to keep going that direction forever.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t. The low point of any cycle is already carrying the conditions for the next upswing, the exact same way winter is already carrying the biological setup for spring. The farmer doesn&#8217;t stand in his field in January convinced the land is dead. He knows what phase he&#8217;s in. He uses it. He repairs equipment, plans the planting, rests the soil, and gets himself ready so that when the ground thaws he moves fast instead of scrambling.</p><p>That&#8217;s the  difference between the two kinds of men here. The man who doesn&#8217;t understand rhythm treats his downswing like weather he never checked the forecast for. It blindsides him, he panics, he burns enormous energy fighting a current that was never going to respond to force, and he comes out the other side depleted right when the upswing arrives and he finally needs fuel. The man who understands rhythm reads the same low phase and does the opposite. He consolidates. He does the deep foundational work the fast phases never leave room for. He holds his direction without collapsing into doubt, and because he isn&#8217;t wasting himself fighting the cycle, he&#8217;s loaded and ready to move decisively the moment it turns.</p><p><em>Notice which of those two men you&#8217;ve been</em> through the last downswing you went through. That&#8217;s not a rhetorical question. Really think about it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wcgi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f6e1a46-ade6-447c-8305-ca454ebaf520_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wcgi!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f6e1a46-ade6-447c-8305-ca454ebaf520_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wcgi!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, 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He doesn&#8217;t stand on the deck furious that the tide is doing what tides do. He reads both accurately and positions himself to use their movement to get where he&#8217;s going. The wind&#8217;s going to blow no matter what he thinks about it. The only question is whether he uses it or exhausts himself resisting it.</p><p>That&#8217;s the posture the principle of rhythm asks for, and it is not passive. A surfer riding a wave isn&#8217;t passive either, he&#8217;s reading the movement under him every second and making constant adjustments, using force he could never generate on his own to cover ground his own paddling never could. The wave brings the power. His skill decides what gets done with it. Take away the wave and his skill means little. Take away his skill and the wave rolls him under. You need both.</p><p>The universal flow is the wave. Your awareness, your standards, your clear intention, and your disciplined action are the skill. And here&#8217;s the part that separates this from just white-knuckling your way through a rough patch. When you&#8217;re in the low phase, you don&#8217;t abandon your direction and you don&#8217;t grip it so hard you strangle it. You get precise about what you want, precise down to the specific number or the specific outcome, because clarity isn&#8217;t attachment, it&#8217;s giving the field something exact to organize around. Then you hold that clear intention while staying genuinely open to that outcome or something better.</p><p>That openness is what keeps your frequency stable when the obstacle shows up, and it will show up, because the low phase always sends one. The man gripping one exact outcome hits that obstacle and his state collapses, and the resistance he throws off in that collapsed state is frequently the very thing that blocks the result. The man holding his intention with real openness hits the identical obstacle and lets it pass, because either he gets what he named or he gets something better, and both are wins. The obstacle has nothing to grab onto. His direction holds. His state holds.</p><p>And the woman in your life reads every bit of this whether she could put words to it or not. The man who keeps his frame, his standards, and his forward direction through the hard phase of a cycle is showing her something that can&#8217;t be faked for long. It&#8217;s either a real quality built through real practice or it&#8217;s a surface performance with anxiety running underneath it, and she&#8217;s calibrated to feel the difference. Stability through the downswing isn&#8217;t just good for your outcomes. It&#8217;s one of the most attractive things you can demonstrate, precisely because so few men can actually do it.</p><p>That&#8217;s what <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> gives you across all seven principles, and rhythm is one of the most immediately useful of them. It lays the ancient framework next to the modern science that keeps confirming it, and then it hands you the part almost nobody bothers with, how to actually read your own cycles and work them instead of getting worked by them. And I&#8217;ll give you the same promise I give on the show every week. You don&#8217;t have to believe the quantum stuff. You don&#8217;t have to buy the mysticism or be sold on any of it. You just have to <em>pick it up</em> and apply what&#8217;s in it, because this is universal law, and universal law doesn&#8217;t wait for your belief before it starts working. The tide comes in whether or not you accept that it will. This works the same way.</p><p>Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and the Audible edition are all live right now, so <em><a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">grab whichever one</a></em> fits how you actually take in a book.</p><p>That verdict you were forming at the start, the one that said this slow stretch is where it all starts slipping, was never a verdict. It was a phase, reported to you accurately by a cycle that&#8217;s already turning. The only thing left to decide is whether you spend the downswing fighting the water, or whether you use it to get ready for the swing that&#8217;s already on its way back.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-thing-youre-calling-failure-is/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-thing-youre-calling-failure-is/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's A Cycle Running Your Emotions That Also Moves The Tides. You've Been Calling It A Bad Mood.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cycle running your emotions at every scale of the universe, how to tell in ten seconds which phase you're in, and the one position that puts you above the swing entirely.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/theres-a-cycle-running-your-emotions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/theres-a-cycle-running-your-emotions</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:02:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!K_T9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3032915-95ec-4107-9f1c-4f41af2102fd_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ve had a stretch where your motivation fell off and you couldn&#8217;t tell anyone why. Nothing changed on the outside. The training got harder to start. The goals looked further away. And somewhere in there a quiet thought crept in that maybe you&#8217;d lost something for good.</p><p>You didn&#8217;t lose a thing. You hit the downswing of a cycle that moves everything, from the seasons to the tides to the fluctuation in empty space, and nobody ever taught you to recognize it. So you called it a bad mood and waited for it to pass. Give me the next few minutes and you&#8217;ll be able to read which phase you&#8217;re standing in within about ten seconds, and work with the cycle instead of getting jerked around by it. Stay with me to the end, because the last piece is the one that puts you above the swing altogether, and it&#8217;s the part nobody talks about.</p><div id="youtube2-q3f-TyRVzdI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;q3f-TyRVzdI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/q3f-TyRVzdI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>The Law Running Under Everything</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the principle. The fifth Hermetic law, rhythm. Everything flows out and in. Everything rises and falls. The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left. Rhythm compensates, and it does not negotiate.</p><p>The old teachers claimed this as a law operating at every scale, from cosmic expansion down to the water cycle and the seasons, with no exceptions. Modern physics backs the structure of it. Even in a total vacuum, with every particle stripped out, the fields underneath reality never stop fluctuating. There&#8217;s no dead-still setting anywhere in the universe. The floor is a pulse. So when your mood swings, your motivation rises and drops, your drive comes and goes, that isn&#8217;t a defect in you. That&#8217;s the most basic pattern reality has, showing up at your scale the way it shows up at every other one.</p><p>You already accept this everywhere except your own head. The stock market corrects and a guy who studies investing doesn&#8217;t panic, because he knows markets go up and down and the S&amp;P has climbed since the Great Depression through every crash along the way. Your candidate loses an election and half the country acts like the world&#8217;s ending, then it swings back and the other half does the same thing four years later. You get that these things are cycles. You just never applied it to your own moods. This is chapter five of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>, now out on Amazon in every format including audio, and rhythm might be the most useful principle in the book for getting through a hard stretch without coming apart. <em>Grab a copy</em> while this is in front of you, because what comes next only works once you&#8217;ve got the law underneath it.</p><h3>Read Which Phase You&#8217;re In</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the ten-second read. Nothing contracting in your life is contracting for good. Nothing expanding is expanding for good. Both belong to the same cycle. So you ask a couple of questions. Which direction is the pendulum moving right now? Are things pulling back, or opening up?</p><p>If you&#8217;re in a downswing, drive low, everything harder to start, that&#8217;s the pullback phase, and it&#8217;s temporary. If you&#8217;re in an upswing, motivated, things clicking, that&#8217;s the expansion phase, and that&#8217;s temporary too. Recognizing the phase is most of the work, because the panic doesn&#8217;t come from the downswing itself. It comes from misreading a temporary pullback as a permanent state. The guy who thinks his low stretch is the new baseline burns himself out fighting it. The guy who knows it&#8217;s one phase of a cycle holds steady and waits for the turn he knows is coming.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>What To Do In Each Phase</h3><p>Once you can read the phase, you handle each one different, and this is where most men get it backwards.</p><p>In the upswing, when things are good, you prepare for the downswing. That&#8217;s the harvest. You bring the crops in and you can some for winter, because winter&#8217;s coming whether you like it or not. In real terms, when the job&#8217;s steady and the money&#8217;s decent, you pay yourself first, ten or fifteen percent off the top, and you build a six-month emergency fund and get out of debt. Most men do the opposite. They spend the good times like the good times last forever, then the downswing hits and they&#8217;ve got nothing saved, so they run everything on credit and bury themselves.</p><p>We&#8217;ve got a brother in <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> going through a divorce right now. He moved out, he&#8217;s in a trailer, and Wednesday he dropped a post that was total panic. &#8220;I can&#8217;t lose my job, my job is the most important thing.&#8221; He&#8217;s in the downswing, and he&#8217;s in it harder than he needs to be because he didn&#8217;t prepare during the upswing. I told him the first move is a real emergency fund. He said he had ten grand in the bank and figured he was fine. I told him that's not what an emergency fund is. I'm talking six months of actual expenses, rent, food, every bill, all of it covered, because once you've got six months of runway you stop being a slave to an employer, and the panic loses its teeth. When you&#8217;re prepared for the pullback, an emergency stops being an emergency. 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the mind starts telling him it&#8217;s permanent. This is bad, it&#8217;s always going to be bad, it&#8217;s never getting better. And a man who believes the low is forever can get to a place where he wants to kill himself. Zeroed out. That&#8217;s a predictable misread of a cycle by someone who was never taught that cycles are how everything operates. The feeling is real. The story wrapped around it, that it&#8217;s permanent, is a lie the downswing tells.</p><p>If you&#8217;re sitting in that right now and the thoughts have gone that dark, hear me. It is a phase, and phases end. Reach out to a real person tonight, a brother, a friend, or the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call or text 988. Getting to the upswing starts with getting through tonight.</p><p>Because the pendulum always comes back. I&#8217;m not just blowing smoke up your ass, it&#8217;s universal law. The measure of the swing one way is the measure of the swing back. However far down you&#8217;ve gone is the measure of how far up it&#8217;s set to move. You just have to still be standing when it turns.</p><h3>Rise Above The Swing</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the last piece, the one that puts you above the the pendulum. There&#8217;s a second law that negates rhythm, the law of neutrality. And it comes down to a two-word response.</p><p>One of my NLP mentors, Dr. David Snyder, told me a story about a farmer. A wild horse runs out of the woods and the farmer&#8217;s kids catch it. &#8220;Dad, can we keep it? It&#8217;ll help us plow.&#8221; The farmer looks at it and says, &#8220;We&#8217;ll see.&#8221; The kids train the horse, and one day it bucks the son off and breaks his leg. The villagers come running. &#8220;That horse is bad luck, look what it did.&#8221; The farmer says, &#8220;We&#8217;ll see.&#8221; Two weeks later the king comes through rounding up every able-bodied man of fighting age for a war. The son can&#8217;t go, his leg&#8217;s broken. The army marches off and gets wiped out to the last man. The broken leg saved the kid&#8217;s life.</p><p>So was the horse good luck or bad? You can&#8217;t know in the moment, and that&#8217;s the point. When you stop labeling each swing as good or bad and meet it with &#8220;we&#8217;ll see,&#8221; you step off the pendulum. You&#8217;re no longer being carried up and down by it. You&#8217;re the observer watching it move, and from there the swings stop jerking your state around. Good thing happens, &#8220;we&#8217;ll see.&#8221; Bad thing happens, &#8220;we&#8217;ll see.&#8221; You hold steady through both, always assuming the best is on its way, and here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll notice: more good things start showing up when you operate from that neutral position, because you stopped bleeding energy fighting a law you were never going to beat.</p><p>That neutral point is the observer position, the part of you that watches your own state instead of drowning in it, and reaching it on command is one of the things <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> is built to teach. Read it like ancient mysticism on the surface. Underneath, it&#8217;s a manual for holding your state steady no matter which way the pendulum&#8217;s moving. And here&#8217;s the promise I make every week on the show. You don&#8217;t have to believe the woo woo. Follow what&#8217;s in it and it works, because this is universal law, and it doesn&#8217;t wait on your belief to work. Just like gravity doesn&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re good or bad, if you jump off a building you will fall. The tide comes in whether you accept it or not. <em>Pick it up on audio</em> and you&#8217;ll hear how every chapter ties back to being a man who holds his frame when everything&#8217;s changing.</p><p>Fun fact, you&#8217;ll climb out of a downswing faster with other men who know exactly what you&#8217;re dealing with, instead of panicking alone in a trailer at 2 a.m. That&#8217;s <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, and there&#8217;s a reason to join now. The price goes up September 1st. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at current pricing for as long as you stay, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before the first, and ride out your next downswing with men who&#8217;ll remind you it&#8217;s a phase when you forget.</p><p>That low stretch you couldn&#8217;t explain, the one where you wondered if you&#8217;d lost something for good. Now you know it was the pendulum, and you know it always swings back. So the next time it pulls you down, read the phase, prepare for the turn, and meet the whole thing with two words. We&#8217;ll see.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/theres-a-cycle-running-your-emotions/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/theres-a-cycle-running-your-emotions/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Can Go Three Months Without Talking To Her And Still Lose Half Your Day To Her]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why waiting it out never works, how your brain stored her as a loop you keep feeding, and the NLP tools that work on the memory itself.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-can-go-three-months-without-talking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-can-go-three-months-without-talking</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:01:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XnAi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7257db6c-a57b-486a-aea8-9bcdae5a121a_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She&#8217;s been in your head since breakfast and it isn&#8217;t even lunch. You catch yourself replaying an old conversation, running the fantasy where you two get back together, wondering what she&#8217;s doing right now. Then you snap out of it, look at the clock, and half your morning is gone to a woman who isn&#8217;t in your life anymore.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what nobody tells you after a breakup. Waiting it out doesn&#8217;t work. Time by itself won&#8217;t get her out of your head. Your brain stored her as pictures, sounds, and feelings, and every single time you replay one, you make it stronger. That&#8217;s why you can go three months with no contact and still lose half your day to her. You&#8217;ve been feeding the exact thing you&#8217;re trying to kill. Stay with me to the end, because the tools that do the most damage to that loop come later, and the last one changes how your brain filed her for good.</p><div id="youtube2-otFFun_LskM" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;otFFun_LskM&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/otFFun_LskM?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Your Brain Is Running A Program You Never Chose</h3><p>Start with how your head actually works, because once you see it you stop blaming yourself for the loop. Around 95% of what you do in a day runs on habit. You&#8217;ve got paradigms, programs running in your subconscious that handle damn near everything without you touching the controls.</p><p>Think about learning to drive a stick. At first it took everything you had. Watch the RPMs, listen to the engine, clutch in, gas at the right moment, all of it conscious and clumsy. Then you drilled it enough that it dropped into your subconscious, and now you get in and go without a thought. You&#8217;ve driven to work and gotten there with no memory of the last twenty miles, because your subconscious ran the whole trip while your conscious mind was somewhere else. Everybody does it. That&#8217;s the system, and it runs on patterns and repetition.</p><p>Thinking about your ex is one of those patterns now. You wired it by repetition, same as the driving, and now it fires on its own. Which means the fix isn&#8217;t waiting for it to fade. The fix is interrupting the pattern and installing a different one. That&#8217;s the entire idea behind <a href="https://mybook.to/FTB">Forget That B*tch</a>. It&#8217;s built for the guy where rejection turned into obsession, the guy who can&#8217;t stop thinking about winning her back even though she&#8217;s already gone. The book runs on real NLP tools that work on the pattern itself instead of feel-good breakup advice that tells you to hang in there. <em>Pick it up now,</em> because hanging in there is the one thing that&#8217;s already proven it doesn&#8217;t work.</p><h3>The Pattern Interrupt</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the first tool, and you can run it tonight. A loop keeps running until something physical stops it or something out of the ordinary breaks it. So the second you catch yourself wondering what she&#8217;s doing or replaying the highlight reel, you interrupt it with a deliberate physical action. Stand up fast. Clap once, hard. Say &#8220;nope&#8221; out loud and change rooms. Anything that jolts your nervous system out of the groove it just dropped into.</p><p>This only works if you catch it, though, and catching it is the part that takes practice. Most of the time you&#8217;re deep in the daydream before you notice you&#8217;re in it. So the skill underneath all of this is awareness. You have to get lucid in your own head, catch the moment she pops up, and go, &#8220;there it is, I&#8217;m doing it again.&#8221; The second you&#8217;re aware of the loop, you&#8217;ve got a shot at breaking it. While you&#8217;re on autopilot, it just runs you.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Get Out Of The Movie</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the piece that changes everything, and it comes down to where you&#8217;re standing when you think about her.</p><p>When you obsess over your ex, you&#8217;re inside the movie. You&#8217;re reliving the memory or running the future fantasy from your own eyes, like it&#8217;s happening right now, and your brain has a hard time telling the difference between something real and something you&#8217;re vividly imagining. That&#8217;s why it hurts so much. You&#8217;re associated, living it from the inside.</p><p>So you step out of it. Picture the memory playing on a screen in a movie theater, and put yourself in a seat in the audience watching it. Now you&#8217;re not in it anymore, you&#8217;re watching it, and the second you do that, the feelings drop. Then take it further. Float up into the projector booth. Now you&#8217;re the operator running the film, looking down at the guy in the seat who&#8217;s watching the movie. Ask what that guy&#8217;s thinking. Why can&#8217;t he get her out of his head?</p><p>That position is called the third party observer in NLP. It&#8217;s the part of you that steps back and looks at what you&#8217;re doing with no judgment, almost a view of yourself from above. And that guy in the booth makes better decisions for you, because he&#8217;s your subconscious watching the situation with none of the emotion drowning him. The distance is what does the work. You can&#8217;t see the forest when you&#8217;re standing in the trees. 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records memories with settings, the same way a movie has color, size, brightness, and distance. NLP calls these submodalities. And here&#8217;s the thing, you can reach up and change them. Take the scene you keep replaying and drain the color out of it. Shrink it down small on the screen. Push it farther away until it&#8217;s a tiny gray square way off in the distance. A memory in big, bright, full color right in your face owns you. That same memory small, gray, and far away has almost no grip left. You didn&#8217;t change what happened. You changed how your brain filed it, and the feeling follows the filing.</p><p>You can go further. Take the movie and run it backward, in full color, twice as fast, three times as fast, from the end back to the start. Reversing the direction reverses how your neurology stored it. Do it a few times and the memory stops playing the way it used to. This is the stuff that sounds like woo woo until you actually do it and feel the charge come off a memory that had you by the throat an hour ago.</p><h3>The Question Underneath It</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the last piece, and it&#8217;s the one that keeps her from coming back into your head after you&#8217;ve done all the rest.</p><p>Part of you is keeping her alive up there on purpose, and that part isn&#8217;t messed up or stupid. There&#8217;s a psychiatrist, R.D. Laing, who said all madness has meaning. It applies here. Some part of you gets real value out of replaying her, even while you know what it&#8217;s costing you. A sense of control. A break from the day. Something. Whatever it is, the need under it is legitimate, and until you find it, the loop keeps rebuilding itself no matter how many times you interrupt it.</p><p>The way you find it is by asking yourself questions, and writing the answers out on paper. Your brain is a question-answering machine. Ask it &#8220;why am I really still holding onto her?&#8221; and it goes digging into your subconscious for the answer, and writing it by hand forces it up to the surface in a way that thinking about it never does. That&#8217;s the reason the <a href="https://workbook.getoveryourex.us">Forget That B*tch workbook</a> exists. It&#8217;s built around the exact questions that pull the real reason out of you, so you can meet the actual need instead of using her to fill it. Use the book and the workbook together and you&#8217;re working the pattern from both ends, breaking the loop and removing the reason it keeps playing. <em>Get both</em> and actually do the work in them, because reading about this and doing it are two different things.</p><h3>You Don&#8217;t Do This Alone</h3><p>Put it together. Her being stuck in your head isn&#8217;t a life sentence and it isn&#8217;t a flaw in you. It&#8217;s a pattern you wired by repetition, and every tool here is a way to wire a different one. Interrupt the loop. Step out of the movie. Turn the dials down. Find the need underneath and meet it a better way. Do those for real and she stops running your day.</p><p>The men who actually do the work instead of just reading about it are the ones with other men holding them to it. A lot of guys try to lone wolf a breakup, sit alone in their own head at 2 a.m. with nobody to check them, and that&#8217;s exactly when the urge to text her wins. That&#8217;s what <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> is for, a group of men who&#8217;ve stood where you&#8217;re standing, plus direct access to me to work through this stuff. Tomorrow night at 7pm ET is our monthly pack hangout, and there&#8217;s a reason to jump on it now. The price goes up September 1st. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at ten bucks a month for as long as you stay, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before the first and <em>join us</em> for the hangout tomorrow.</p><p>She&#8217;s been running loops in your head rent-free since breakfast. Now you know it&#8217;s a pattern, and you know how to break it. So the next time she pops up, catch it, step into the booth, and turn her down to a gray little square in the distance where she belongs.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-can-go-three-months-without-talking/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/you-can-go-three-months-without-talking/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lasting Longer During Sex Isn't Something You're Born With. It's A Pattern You Trained By Accident.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The muscle you've never trained, the breathing that's making you bust faster without you knowing, and the threshold in your body you've never once paid attention to.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/lasting-longer-during-sex-isnt-something</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/lasting-longer-during-sex-isnt-something</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:00:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NIOy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8e91e7c-4647-41ad-89c8-1d55161e96a9_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re in the middle of fucking your girl, you feel yourself getting close way earlier than you wanted, and you start running math in your head to hold it off. Baseball stats. The grocery list. Anything to pull your brain off what&#8217;s happening. And you already know how well that works, because you&#8217;re reading this.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what almost nobody told you. How long you last during sex isn&#8217;t a fixed trait you got handed at birth. It&#8217;s a nervous system pattern you trained by accident, over years, and anything you trained by accident you can retrain on purpose. There&#8217;s a muscle involved you&#8217;ve probably never worked. There&#8217;s a breathing pattern making you bust faster without your knowledge. And there&#8217;s a threshold in your body most men can&#8217;t locate, because they&#8217;ve never once paid attention to it. Stay with me to the end, because these pieces only work stacked together, and the last one is where most guys tap out too early to see the payoff.</p><div id="youtube2-we6sjAaKcTc" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;we6sjAaKcTc&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/we6sjAaKcTc?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Start With The Plumbing</h3><p>Before any technique matters, understand what a hard dick actually is. It&#8217;s a blood flow event. How hard you get comes down to cardiovascular health, hormone levels, and how efficiently blood moves through your body. The mechanics are vascular, start to finish. So anything that improves your heart and blood vessels improves what happens with your dick, and anything that wrecks them wrecks that too.</p><p>Here&#8217;s where the red pill space gets it half right. Everybody&#8217;s screaming about lifting heavy, get to the gym, stack on muscle, and there&#8217;s almost nothing said about cardio. Lifting is fine. But your cardiovascular health is what runs a strong hard-on, because getting hard is about blood flow, and cardio is the thing that trains blood flow. You don&#8217;t need to live on a treadmill either. Thirty to forty-five minutes, three or four times a week, and your cardio is in good shape. Ride a bike, take a fast four-mile walk, whatever gets your heart going without making you miserable. Everybody&#8217;s got the same twenty-four hours, and you make time for what matters. This matters.</p><p>Dial the diet in alongside it, because the food either helps blood move or clogs the pipes, and there&#8217;s no technique in the world that outruns a vascular system you&#8217;ve been trashing for twenty years. This is the groundwork, and <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a> walks through the whole physical foundation before it ever gets to technique, because the mechanics have to be working before anything you do on top of them counts.</p><h3>The Muscle Almost No Man Trains</h3><p>Now the part that changes how long you last. There&#8217;s a muscle involved in this, and almost nobody trains it. Your pelvic floor, the muscles you use to stop your piss midstream. Most men have never consciously worked them a single day, so they&#8217;re sitting there underdeveloped compared to what they could be.</p><p>A strong pelvic floor does two things for you. It gives you a harder dick, because those muscles help keep blood from flowing back out once it&#8217;s in there. And it&#8217;s directly involved in the muscular events of busting, which means the stronger and more trained it is, the more control you&#8217;ve got over when that happens instead of it just happening to you.</p><p>Training it is simple. Clench those muscles, the same ones that stop your stream, hold for three to five seconds, then release all the way. Three sets of ten to fifteen, every day. You can find them by stopping your stream mid-piss a few times until you know what the contraction feels like, then do the actual sets away from the toilet. Do that daily for four to six weeks and you&#8217;ll notice a real difference in both hardness and control. If you don&#8217;t notice yet, keep going. It builds like any other muscle.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Breathing That&#8217;s Working Against You</h3><p>Here&#8217;s one you&#8217;ve never thought about once. Your breathing is deciding how long you last, and it&#8217;s doing it without your permission.</p><p>When you get turned on, your breathing goes faster and shallower on its own. That shallow, quick pattern fires up your sympathetic nervous system, which is the exact system running the physiological events that make you bust. So faster, shallower breathing pushes you toward the finish, and you&#8217;re doing it involuntarily, because nobody ever told you to watch it.</p><p>The fix is diaphragmatic breathing. Breathe so your stomach pushes out instead of your chest rising. That activates the parasympathetic side, the opposite system, so you&#8217;re working against the rush toward busting instead of feeding it. But you can&#8217;t try to fix this while you&#8217;re fucking, because in the moment your body defaults to its automatic pattern and you&#8217;ve got nothing trained to fall back on. So you practice it cold, five minutes a day when you&#8217;re calm, until belly breathing becomes your default. And I&#8217;ll be straight with you about when else to drill it. When you&#8217;re jerking off. Come on, we both know. 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You have to find your point of no return.</p><p>You know the spot. She&#8217;s telling you don&#8217;t stop, don&#8217;t stop, and you&#8217;re thinking oh fuck, I can&#8217;t hold it, and then you bust. That moment is called the ejaculatory inevitability threshold, and almost no man has any real awareness of where it sits, because he&#8217;s never paid deliberate attention to it. The approach has specific signals, a particular quality of tension, a specific escalation in the way it feels, and all of it becomes recognizable once you start paying attention. Learn to feel it coming with enough warning and you can act before you&#8217;ve gone too far. You slow down, change positions, stop moving while you stay inside her, or pull out and go down on her for a minute to keep her going while you back yourself off the ledge.</p><p>There&#8217;s also a mental version of this that works right now, tonight. When you&#8217;re monitoring your own dick, all your attention is down there, and your mind doesn&#8217;t handle &#8220;don&#8217;t bust&#8221; well, because it hears &#8220;bust.&#8221; Energy flows where attention goes. So you take your focus off yourself and put it on her. What&#8217;s she doing? How&#8217;s she reacting? Is she moaning, moving, getting close? Moving your attention off your own sensation and onto her responses pulls you off the internal monitoring that speeds you up, and puts you on feedback you can actually use to run the encounter. It buys you time and it makes you better at reading her at the same time.</p><h3>The One That Retrains The Whole Pattern</h3><p>Here's the piece that ties it together. It sounds like a chore, which is why it doesn't get done, and it's the one that actually retrains the pattern. Edging. And there&#8217;s a reason you need it.</p><p>You trained yourself to bust fast. You&#8217;ve been jerking off since you were twelve, and the whole time it was about speed, get there quick, finish, move on. Years of that taught your nervous system one lesson: high arousal means bust, right now. So now you have to teach it the opposite, and you do that by contradicting the old pattern over and over until the new one takes over.</p><p>You practice this alone, not with her. While you&#8217;re jerking off, build up close to the point of no return, then stop all stimulation completely. Let the arousal drop back down to baseline. Then build it up again. Three or four cycles before you let yourself finish. Build up, stop, let it calm down, build up, stop. You&#8217;re teaching your nervous system that high arousal isn&#8217;t automatically followed by busting. Do it three or four times a week for four to six weeks, right alongside your kegels, and it transfers to the real thing, because you&#8217;re training the exact same neurological system that&#8217;s running when you&#8217;re actually inside her.</p><p>Fun fact: By the time you finally let yourself finish after holding at the edge three or four times, it&#8217;s one of the craziest orgasms you&#8217;ll ever have. The work pays you back on both ends.</p><p>Every one of these pieces, the blood flow foundation, the kegels, the breathing, the threshold awareness, the edging protocol, is laid out step by step with the timelines and the technique in <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a> on Amazon or Audible. Chapter nine lays this entire system out in order. <em>Grab your copy</em> and run the four to six week protocol, because four to six weeks from now you&#8217;re either the guy still doing math in his head, or the guy running the show.</p><h3>Where This Actually Sticks</h3><p>Put it together and here&#8217;s what changes. Once the plumbing works, the muscle&#8217;s trained, the breathing&#8217;s automatic, and you know where your threshold sits, you stop monitoring yourself mid-fuck. All that attention you were spending managing your own body goes onto her instead, because your body isn&#8217;t the thing you&#8217;re managing anymore. That&#8217;s the moment you become the one deciding when things speed up and when they slow down. Four to six weeks of consistent work is what it takes to get there.</p><p>The men who actually run the protocol instead of just reading it are the ones who&#8217;ve got other men holding them to it. That&#8217;s <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, and there&#8217;s a reason to move now. The price goes up September 1st. Join before then and you&#8217;re locked in at ten bucks a month for as long as you stay, even after everyone joining later pays more. On top of that, this Thursday we&#8217;ve got our monthly pack hangout at 7pm ET too, so <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before the first and jump straight into it.</p><p>You&#8217;ve been doing math in your head to keep from busting this whole time. Now you know why it never worked, and you know the actual fix. So put the four to six weeks in, and go be the guy who controls how the night goes.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/lasting-longer-during-sex-isnt-something/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/lasting-longer-during-sex-isnt-something/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Men Walk Into The Same Room And Live In Two Different Worlds]]></title><description><![CDATA[The reason your circumstances keep repeating no matter how much changes around you, and the leverage point almost every man ignores because it's the last place he thinks to look.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/37-trillion-copies-of-the-same-blueprint</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/37-trillion-copies-of-the-same-blueprint</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:01:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!88vQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2456d683-2619-42e5-a5b9-c974d2d22d2e_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buy a specific truck and within a week you&#8217;re seeing that truck everywhere. Same model, same color, on every road, in every lot. The trucks didn&#8217;t multiply overnight. They were always there. Your brain just wasn&#8217;t flagging them as worth your attention until the moment they became relevant to you, and then a filter switched on and the world appeared to change.</p><p>It didn&#8217;t change. Your filter did. And that same filter is running on far more than trucks right now.</p><p>Hold that, because it&#8217;s a smaller version of something much bigger, and by the time these two things connect, you&#8217;re going to understand why your life keeps handing you variations of the same situation no matter how many of the surface details you swap out.</p><p>There&#8217;s a version of you who&#8217;s convinced his circumstances come at him from the outside. The job, the money, the way people treat him, all of it arriving like weather he just has to stand in. Keep that guy in mind too. He&#8217;s about to find out he&#8217;s been standing in weather he&#8217;s generating himself.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!88vQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2456d683-2619-42e5-a5b9-c974d2d22d2e_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!88vQ!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2456d683-2619-42e5-a5b9-c974d2d22d2e_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!88vQ!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, 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Jagged, irregular, a specific kind of ragged. Zoom into one mile of it and you get the same ragged shape. Zoom into ten feet of it and it&#8217;s still there. The pattern holds at every scale you look at.</p><p>It&#8217;s not just coastlines. A river branching into tributaries into streams looks structurally identical to the bronchial tubes branching through your lungs, which look like a bolt of lightning, which looks like the neurons branching through your skull, which looks like the way galaxies cluster into filaments across billions of light years. The same architecture, repeating from the microscopic all the way up to the structure of the universe itself.</p><p>That&#8217;s not poetry. It&#8217;s a measured mathematical property called fractal geometry, worked out by Benoit Mandelbrot in the seventies and eighties, and he wasn&#8217;t trying to prove anything ancient. He was studying the shapes classical math couldn&#8217;t describe and found that nature builds itself out of the same pattern repeated at every level. The part mirrors the whole. What&#8217;s true at one scale is true at all of them.</p><p>The Hermeticists compressed that entire idea into four words in 1908, long before anyone had the math for it. As above, so below. Their second principle, correspondence, says every level of reality mirrors every other level, and the divisions we see between things are real where we stand but aren&#8217;t the deepest truth about how any of it is put together.</p><p>Now bring that all the way down into your own body, because this is where it stops being interesting and starts being about you.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Every Cell Is Holding The Whole Plan</h3><p>You&#8217;ve got roughly 37 trillion cells, and every single one of them carries the complete instructions for building the entire you. Not the part relevant to that cell&#8217;s job. The whole blueprint. A liver cell holds the full genetic information for your eyes, your bones, your neurons, even though it&#8217;ll never use most of it. The complete plan, present in every fragment.</p><p>The part contains the whole. That&#8217;s the exact property a hologram has, cut a holographic plate in half and you don&#8217;t get two half-images, you get two complete images at lower resolution, because the whole is encoded in every piece of it. Your body is built the same way, right down to the cellular level.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the part that reaches into your daily life. For years scientists wrote off about 98% of your DNA as junk, useless filler. Then they looked closer and found those regions aren&#8217;t idle at all. They&#8217;re the regulatory system deciding which genes switch on and which stay off. Your genes aren&#8217;t a fixed sentence you were handed at birth. Which ones are actually expressing depends on signals, and one of the loudest signal systems is your own internal chemistry, the chemistry your thoughts and emotional states directly produce.</p><p>Think about something that pisses you off and your body chemistry shifts within seconds. That shift reaches all the way down to which genes are reading out. Your inner state isn&#8217;t sitting quietly upstairs separate from your biology. It&#8217;s an input into your biology at the genetic level, running as a live feedback loop while you read this.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!goKo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc257f1e6-9b5e-4e6b-aee2-07e8cfe68e4e_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!goKo!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc257f1e6-9b5e-4e6b-aee2-07e8cfe68e4e_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!goKo!, 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conscious mind could ever process, so it runs a filter deciding what reaches you and what gets screened out. That filter, the reticular activating system, isn&#8217;t neutral. It&#8217;s calibrated by your existing beliefs and expectations. You don&#8217;t see the world as it is. You see the version your filter has been trained to show you, which is exactly why the truck you just bought is suddenly everywhere.</p><p>Now extend that past trucks. The beliefs you carry about what&#8217;s possible for you, about whether people want you around, about whether opportunity is everywhere or nowhere, about whether you&#8217;re the kind of man things work out for, all of it is running as a filter on your perception right this second. It&#8217;s deciding what you notice, what you chase, what you read as a chance versus a threat, and what you dismiss before it ever reaches conscious thought.</p><p>Two men walk into the same room. One sees the person worth talking to and three openings to do it. The other sees all the reasons not to bother. Same room, same people, same objective conditions, two completely different lived realities generated entirely from the inside. Then it compounds. Internal pattern shapes perception, perception shapes interpretation, interpretation shapes decision, decision shapes action, action shapes outcome, and the outcome loops back and reinforces the pattern that started it. Run that loop for years and it builds the life you&#8217;re currently living.</p><p>The man who genuinely believes he can build something behaves differently than the man secretly convinced he can&#8217;t, and those differences compound into completely different outcomes over time. The man running on scarcity makes quietly different money decisions than the man running on abundance. The man who holds women in contempt, no matter how well he hides it, broadcasts that state in ways that shape how women respond to him. Your inside leaks. It shapes your tone, your posture, the micro-expressions you don&#8217;t control, the moves you make and the ones you talk yourself out of. People read all of it without knowing they&#8217;re reading it, and they respond to what you&#8217;re actually running underneath, not the version you&#8217;re managing on the surface.</p><p>That&#8217;s what correspondence means applied to one man&#8217;s life. Your outer world is a reflection of the world operating inside you. Not a perfect mirror in every single moment, but a reliable structural match over time. Which is the thing that should stop you, because it means the circumstances you keep blaming on luck or timing or other people have been repeating for a reason, and the reason is upstream of all of them.</p><p>Here&#8217;s why that&#8217;s the best news you&#8217;ll read this week rather than the worst. If your outer experience reflects your inner world, the leverage point is internal. You don&#8217;t have to wait for your circumstances to change before your life changes. You change the pattern inside and the outer world reorganizes to match it. That&#8217;s not sitting quietly waiting for the universe to deliver. It&#8217;s active, disciplined work, the same as training your body. Consistent directed mental effort produces real structural change in the brain, which changes the filter, which changes what you perceive, which changes what you do, which changes what you get.</p><p>That&#8217;s exactly what <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> is built to walk you through, correspondence and the six other principles laid next to the modern science that keeps confirming them, and then the part almost nobody hands you, how to actually run the change instead of just nodding at the idea. And I&#8217;ll give you the same promise I give on the show every week. You don&#8217;t have to believe the quantum stuff. You don&#8217;t have to buy the mysticism or be sold on any of it. You just have to <em>pick it up</em> and follow what&#8217;s in it, because this is universal law, and universal law doesn&#8217;t wait for your belief before it starts working. Water doesn&#8217;t ask if you accept it before it takes the shape of the glass. Neither does this.</p><p>Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and the Audible edition are all live right now, so <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">grab whichever format</a> fits how you actually take in a book and <em>pick it up</em> today.</p><p>That guy from the start, the one certain his life was happening to him from the outside, had the whole thing backwards, and now he can see it. The outer world was reflecting the inner one the entire time. The only real question left is which pattern you&#8217;re going to run on purpose now that you know the mirror was never lying to you, it was reporting to you.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/37-trillion-copies-of-the-same-blueprint/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/37-trillion-copies-of-the-same-blueprint/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear And Power Are The Same Energy. Here's How To Point It The Right Way.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why fighting a bad state keeps you stuck in it, how the old teachers changed their state on command, and the one action that flips fear into motivation.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-hermetic-trick-that-flips-your</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-hermetic-trick-that-flips-your</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:01:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SWR2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fd2e55e-57a0-4a08-8758-fd3efc7b8824_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whatever mood you&#8217;re in right now, you didn&#8217;t pick it. It showed up. Something set it off this morning, or last night, or three days ago, and you&#8217;ve been carrying it since, like it&#8217;s just the weather you have to stand in until it passes.</p><p>It isn&#8217;t. Thousands of years ago the Hermeticists worked out how to change your state on command, in seconds, without waiting around for it to lift on its own. It&#8217;s a specific method, older than most religions, and once you&#8217;ve got it, you walk into the hard conversation with your wife, the meeting you&#8217;re dreading, the decision you&#8217;ve been dodging for months, in the state you chose instead of the one that grabbed you that morning. Stay with me to the end, because the piece that makes this actually work is the part almost every man gets backwards.</p><div id="youtube2-gBu03ebgh4g" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;gBu03ebgh4g&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/gBu03ebgh4g?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Opposites Are The Same Thing At Different Degrees</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the law running under all of it. The fourth Hermetic principle, polarity:</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p>Take a thermometer. Where exactly does hot become cold? There&#8217;s no line. It&#8217;s one scale, and hot and cold are just labels you slap on different points of it depending on where you&#8217;re standing. A day that feels cold to a guy in Florida feels warm to a guy in Alaska. Same temperature. Different reference point. Nothing changed but the label. Think of the North and South Pole. You head north, you hit the top, you keep walking, and now you&#8217;re heading south, on the same path, without ever turning around. What changed was the name, not the ground under your feet.</p><p>Once that clicks, a paradox stops being a contradiction you have to resolve. It becomes two positions on one line, both true at once. This is how you climb out of the black-and-white thinking that runs most men. Republican or Democrat. Alpha or beta. Red pill or blue pill. Good guys and bad guys. It&#8217;s all one spectrum with a lot of gray in the middle, and the men who see the gray stop getting yanked around by whichever side is loudest that week. That alone is worth the price of the book, because the guy who understands polarity is a lot harder to manipulate. Edward Bernays, the father of modern PR, wrote the playbook for mass persuasion that governments and corporations still run on, and it works on people stuck thinking in absolutes. It stops working on you.</p><p>This is chapter four of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>, now out on Amazon in every format including audio, and polarity might be the most useful principle in the book for your day-to-day life. <em>Grab a copy</em> while this is in front of you, because what comes next only works once you understand the law underneath it.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Fear And Power Run On One Line</h3><p>Here&#8217;s where polarity stops being philosophy and becomes a tool you use today.</p><p>Fear is not your enemy. Fear is one position on a spectrum, and the exact energy that shows up as fear at one end is the same energy that shows up as power at the other. You don&#8217;t have to generate anything new when you&#8217;re scared. The charge is already in your body. You just have to point it in a different direction.</p><p>That reframe changes everything, because it means the goal was never to get rid of the fear. The guy trying to eliminate fear is in a permanent argument with his own nervous system, and he loses every time. Your threat detection system is ancient and fast. It fires before your conscious mind has a chance to weigh in. Your body wraps an emotion around it, your conscious mind catches that feeling, and then you build a story on top of it. By the time you&#8217;re aware of the fear, it&#8217;s already running. You can&#8217;t delete it. Fighting it head-on makes it dig in.</p><p>This is why what you resist persists. The depressed guy who spends all day fighting the depression stays in it longer, because all that attention is fuel. The anxious guy trying to force himself to stop being anxious feeds the exact thing he&#8217;s trying to kill. Suppressed fear doesn&#8217;t disappear either. It goes underground and comes back as procrastination, irritability, avoidance, and half the time you don&#8217;t even recognize it as fear anymore. 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You don&#8217;t fight the state. You redirect the energy toward the opposite pole on the same line.</p><p>It runs in two steps. First, awareness. Most men have no idea what state they&#8217;re even in. They&#8217;re just in it, running on autopilot, reacting out of a mood they never clocked. So you build the habit of catching it. You stop and go, okay, I&#8217;m pissed off right now, or I&#8217;m scared, or I&#8217;m down. You put words to it. That pause, that half-second where you step back and see the state instead of being buried inside it, is where all your leverage lives. Without it, the pattern just runs you.</p><p>Second, you point the charge at the other pole. Not suppress it. Redirect it. Energy flows where attention goes, so you take the same charge that&#8217;s showing up as fear and aim it at the courage end of the line, the same anger and aim it at drive, the same nervous energy before the meeting and aim it at focus. You&#8217;re not manufacturing a new feeling. You&#8217;re taking what&#8217;s already there and turning it to face a different direction.</p><p>The human mind can&#8217;t experience two opposing emotional states at once. As you focus on your desired state, visualize how it feels, and adjust your posture to mirror it, you gradually adopt that condition. Recalling past experiences that triggered that exact feeling naturally brings you back into it as well.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the part that makes it stick. It gets faster every time you do it. Each time you catch yourself in a low state and point that energy at the opposite pole instead of fighting it, you reinforce the neural pathway that makes the next redirect quicker. It&#8217;s a skill, and it builds like any skill. The first few times it&#8217;s clumsy and slow. Run it enough and flipping your state becomes close to automatic, something you do in seconds without a whole lot of effort.</p><h3>Why Polarity Impacts Your Relationship Too</h3><p>This same law is running in your romantic relationships, whether you see it or not, and once you understand it you stop panicking over things that look worse than they are.</p><p>Love and hate sit on one spectrum. They&#8217;re the same energy at different points on the same line, which is why intense love can flip to intense hate in the same relationship, and flip back, with startling speed. Here&#8217;s what that means for you in practice. If your wife is pissed off at you, angry, throwing shit tests, that&#8217;s workable. She&#8217;s still feeling something. You can agree and amplify, turn the anger into playful banter, banter into flirting, and move her back up the line toward love faster than you&#8217;d think. Her hatred is a lot easier to work with than you&#8217;d guess.</p><p>The state you actually have to worry about isn&#8217;t her anger. It&#8217;s her apathy. Once a woman drops all the way down into feeling nothing for you, into indifference, that&#8217;s the near-impossible one to reverse, because there&#8217;s no charge left to redirect. So if she&#8217;s furious with you right now and you think it&#8217;s over, it isn&#8217;t. Anger is a live wire. You can work with a live wire. Have some hope, brother.</p><p>There&#8217;s a stack of relationship material woven through this whole book for exactly this reason, because polarity applies to strength and gentleness, to sexual attractiveness and comfort, to the balance you have to strike to keep a woman relaxed into her feminine instead of fighting you for the wheel. <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> reads like ancient mysticism on the surface, and there&#8217;s red pill praxeology built into it under the hood. Your wife could read it and enjoy it without ever realizing what it&#8217;s actually teaching you. <em>Pick it up on Audible</em> and you&#8217;ll hear how every chapter ties back to being a man women want to stay with.</p><h3>Walk In As The Man You Chose To Be</h3><p>Put it together. Your states aren&#8217;t weather you&#8217;re stuck standing in. They&#8217;re positions on a line, and the same energy that&#8217;s dragging you down is the exact energy that moves you forward once you turn it to face the right way. You catch the state, you point the charge at the opposite pole, and you get faster at it every time you do it.</p><p>Do this and you stop being at the mercy of whatever mood ambushed you that morning. You walk into the hard conversation, the meeting, the date, the gym, in the state you picked. And when you control your state, you control your perception, and your perception is the thing building your reality in the first place.</p><p>The men who get this fastest are the ones practicing it alongside other men doing the same work. That&#8217;s <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, and there&#8217;s a reason to act now instead of later. The price goes up September 1st. Get in before then and you&#8217;re locked at current pricing for as long as you stay a member, even after everyone joining later pays more. So <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in</a> before the first, and start applying this with men who&#8217;ll catch you the moment you slip back into the old pattern.</p><p>That mood you walked in with today, the one you didn&#8217;t choose. Now you know it&#8217;s one end of a line, and you know how to walk to the other end of it. So the next time one grabs you, catch it, turn it, and go be the version of yourself that better serves you.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-hermetic-trick-that-flips-your/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-hermetic-trick-that-flips-your/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety Days To Never Needing Her Again, If You Do The One Thing Most Men Skip]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the men who try to win her back or fill the hole with someone new end up right back in the wreckage a year later, and the rebuild that gets you out for good.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-first-90-days-after-she-leaves</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-first-90-days-after-she-leaves</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:02:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W82q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5bfbf6f-5636-4024-9258-5353aecb2706_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The house is dead silent right now. Her stuff&#8217;s gone, or yours is, and you&#8217;re sitting there realizing you don&#8217;t know who the hell you are without her. That silence is the loudest thing you&#8217;ve ever heard.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what I need you to understand before you do anything stupid with it. The next ninety days decide the next ten years. Most men waste them doing one of two things, trying to win her back, or numbing the ache with the next woman who&#8217;ll have them, and a year later they&#8217;re standing in the exact same wreckage wondering how they got there again. You&#8217;re going to do the opposite. Stay with me all the way to the end, because each piece sets up the next, and the last one is the piece almost every man skips.</p><div id="youtube2-aWxzwSPUkwU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;aWxzwSPUkwU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/aWxzwSPUkwU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Go Dark. Not For Her. For You.</h3><p>First move. You cut all contact, and you go dark on her socials.</p><p>Every time you check her profile, you rip the wound back open. You hand her free space in your head, and she doesn&#8217;t even have to pay rent to live there. What you&#8217;re looking at is a highlight reel anyway. The smiles, the wins, the nights out. You never see the lonely nights. She might already be with someone else, and now you&#8217;re sitting in your quiet house watching her live her best life on a screen, measuring your insides against her curated outsides. That comparison does nothing but gut you.</p><p>So block her. Block her on everything. And hear the difference in why. A breakup coach tells you to go no contact as a tactic, a way to make her miss you and reach out. That&#8217;s not what this is. You&#8217;re going no contact to forget her, not to bait her back. And you&#8217;re not blocking her to be petty or to hide what you&#8217;re doing. You&#8217;re blocking her because right now you are not strong enough to stop yourself from looking, and you know it. The block is a barrier between you and the thing that keeps reopening the wound. That&#8217;s self-protection, not a game.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve got kids, you can&#8217;t cut her off completely, and I won&#8217;t pretend otherwise. But you can still kill the social media, still filter the emails down to logistics only, still strip it down to nothing but what raising your kids requires. Cut every channel that isn&#8217;t load-bearing.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Sit In The Silence Instead Of Running From It</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the part that separates the men who come out of this rebuilt from the ones who come out the same. You have to sit in the silence instead of sprinting away from it.</p><p>The ache is going to get loud, and it peaks around week two, right when the loneliness sinks in for real. That&#8217;s the exact moment most men reach for the fastest painkiller they can find, which is another woman. Don&#8217;t do it. A rebound relationship is sprinting on a sprained ankle. You jump into something new before you&#8217;ve healed, and you hand every bit of your baggage straight to the next woman. You end up in the same relationship you just left, with a different face across the table. I watched one of my old 3% brothers do this, into a new relationship a month and a half after a very messy brake up, with a woman who wasn&#8217;t good for him, settling because he couldn&#8217;t stand being alone. Same relationship. Different face.</p><p>The silence is where the actual work happens. You can&#8217;t outrun the pain, and you can&#8217;t screw it away. You&#8217;ve got to feel it, you let it move through you, and you use it. That pain you&#8217;re sitting in right now is fuel if you point it in the right direction instead of pissing it away on your ex&#8217;s Instagram feed or on a woman you&#8217;re using as a bandage.</p><p>And this is where you fill the space her voice used to occupy. If your head is full of her, you crowd her out by putting something else in there. When your mind is loaded with what you&#8217;re reading, what you&#8217;re learning, what you&#8217;re building, she gets less and less space to run loops in your skull. That&#8217;s the reason I built <a href="https://mybook.to/FTB">Forget That B*tch</a> around real NLP tools instead of feel-good breakup bullshit. The tools give your mind something to run besides her. And the <a href="https://workbook.getoveryourex.us">companion workbook</a> turns it into a full ninety-day action plan, a thing to actually do every day instead of a thing to feel. <em>Pick both up now,</em> because an idle mind in an empty house always drifts back to her, and you need the drill to point it somewhere else.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W82q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5bfbf6f-5636-4024-9258-5353aecb2706_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!W82q!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, 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you&#8217;re sitting in the silence, the isolation gets dangerous, and I mean that in the most literal way. Some men go to a genuinely dark place in this window. Every year, men zero out after a divorce or breakup and take their own lives over it. I'm not saying that for shock value. Men are the true romantics. We often pour our entire identity into our relationships, so when one ends, it doesn&#8217;t feel like losing a woman, it feels like losing yourself, and a man who can&#8217;t see himself anymore is a man in real danger.</p><p>That&#8217;s the exact reason you don&#8217;t sit in this alone. Your own mind becomes the worst neighborhood you can walk into at 2 a.m., and with nobody around to check you, every worst thought you&#8217;ve got runs unopposed. You need other men around you. Not to coddle you. To tell you the truth when you start romanticizing her. To catch you the night you&#8217;re one drink from texting her. To remind you the pain is temporary and there&#8217;s a man taking shape on the other side of it, even on the nights you can&#8217;t feel it yourself.</p><p>If you&#8217;re sitting there right now and the dark thoughts are more than passing, reach out to a real person tonight. A friend, a brother, or the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call or text 988. Getting through the ninety days starts with getting through tonight.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the problem most men run into. They have no real circle left. Work friends, a couple of guys they text about sports, and that&#8217;s it. Nobody who&#8217;ll get in their face and pull them out of the hole. That's the reason <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> exists. It's a group of men who've stood exactly where you're standing right now and came out better on the other side, and they'll get in your corner instead of letting you go through it alone in that silent house.</p><h3>Become The Man Who Doesn&#8217;t Need Her At All</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the last piece, the one almost every man skips, and it&#8217;s the one that makes the other three stick.</p><p>The goal was never to get over her. The goal is to become a man who doesn&#8217;t need her, or any specific woman, to be whole. That&#8217;s a different target, and it&#8217;s a bigger one. You get there by rebuilding an identity that stands on its own. You hit the gym, not to look good for her, for you. You chase a purpose that has nothing to do with any woman. You rebuild the confidence that got hollowed out, one kept promise to yourself at a time. You build a life so solid that a woman becomes something you add to it, never something you need to prop it up.</p><p>Do that for ninety days and you won&#8217;t recognize the guy who got dumped. He needed her to complete him. The man who walks out the far side of this doesn&#8217;t need anybody, and that&#8217;s the exact thing that makes him someone worth being around, women included. Not because he&#8217;s pretending to not need them. Because it&#8217;s real.</p><p>That&#8217;s the entire arc of <a href="https://mybook.to/FTB">Forget That B*tch</a> and the <a href="https://workbook.getoveryourex.us">workbook</a>, on Amazon and Audible. Not &#8220;here&#8217;s how to feel a little better.&#8221; Here&#8217;s how to make sure a breakup never levels you again, because you&#8217;ll have built a man underneath who doesn&#8217;t come apart when a woman leaves.</p><p>And you build that faster with men who&#8217;ve done it beside you. Right now there&#8217;s a reason to move on W.O.L.F. Pack instead of sitting on it. The price goes up September 1st. Every man who joins before then locks in at the current ten bucks a month for good, grandfathered at that rate even after everyone who joins later pays more. So if you&#8217;re sitting in that silent house tonight, <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">get in the group</a> before September first, and stop doing the hardest ninety days of your life alone.</p><p>Ninety days from now, one of two men is sitting in that house. The one who spent it refreshing her profile or auditioning her replacement, still hollow. Or the one who went dark, sat in the fire, put real men around him, and rebuilt. You already know which one you&#8217;d rather be. Start today, and go be him.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-first-90-days-after-she-leaves/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/the-first-90-days-after-she-leaves/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's Hiding Filthier Desires Than You Think. There's A 1973 Book That Proves It.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the woman in your bed keeps a private world of desire locked away, what taught her to hide it, and how to become the one man she stops hiding it from.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/shes-hiding-filthier-desires-than</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/shes-hiding-filthier-desires-than</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:00:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pnnB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77304031-2d82-46a4-89e9-b1a6f404dac3_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The woman in your bed has a private world of desire, and it runs darker and filthier than anything she&#8217;s shown you. That&#8217;s not a guess. It&#8217;s close to a mathematical certainty, and there&#8217;s a book that proved it over fifty years ago.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the thing that will blow your mind. She&#8217;s not hiding it because it isn&#8217;t there. She&#8217;s hiding it because at some point she learned what happens to a woman who shows it. Stay with me all the way through, because the part that matters most, the actual way you get her to stop hiding it, comes at the end, and almost every guy does the exact opposite of what works.</p><div id="youtube2-bsnqjOWl9ZE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;bsnqjOWl9ZE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/bsnqjOWl9ZE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>The Book That Blew The Lid Off</h3><p>In 1973 a woman named Nancy Friday put ads in newspapers across the country asking women to write in with their real fantasies. No names. Full anonymity. And the reason she made it anonymous is the whole point of this article.</p><p>She got the idea at a dinner with a few couples. She mentioned she was writing a book on female fantasy, and one of the husbands laughed.</p><p>&#8220;A book on female fantasies? Women don&#8217;t have fantasies. Do you, honey?&#8221;</p><p>And his wife said, &#8220;Oh, no, of course not, we&#8217;re all good women here.&#8221;</p><p>In front of the table, with her husband watching, she gave the socially approved answer. That&#8217;s the mechanism in one moment. Nancy understood that if she wanted the truth, the women had to believe no one would ever know it was them.</p><p>So she made it anonymous, and the truth came pouring in. She got so many responses with so many overlapping themes she had to sort them into categories, and she called the book My Secret Garden, each category a different door in the garden. The fantasies ran ten times filthier than what most men imagine women think about. The biggest recurring theme in the book was physical dominance. Being taken. My friend Stirling Cooper, a retired adult film star, is the one who put me onto it, and I got about halfway through before I got the point. Some of it goes to places I won&#8217;t touch. But the ordinary stuff in there is enough to knock the wholesome-good-girl idea out of your head for good.</p><p>My Secret Garden is also mentioned in the book, The Game, by Neil Strauss. It&#8217;s a book about pickup artists in the early 2000&#8217;s. I didn&#8217;t realize he mentioned it until I took another listen to that book this past spring while on a road trip with my son.</p><p>Anyway, once you see what women actually think about when they believe nobody&#8217;s watching, you can&#8217;t unsee it. Women are humans with real desires. The woman playing it wholesome in your comments is giving the socially approved answer at that dinner table, same as the wife did in 1973. This is chapter eight of <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a>, and it&#8217;s the chapter that changes how a man sees the woman he&#8217;s already with.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Cycle That Put Her Bedroom To Sleep</h3><p>There&#8217;s a term for the thing making a man unable to enjoy this once he&#8217;s committed. Freud called it the Madonna-whore complex.</p><p>It&#8217;s the tendency for some men to sort women into two piles. Good women you commit to, and dirty women you desire but don&#8217;t respect. A guy like this marries the good woman, and then he can&#8217;t bring himself to have filthy sex with her, because she&#8217;s wife material, she&#8217;s the mother of his kids, she&#8217;s practically the Virgin Mary. So he holds back with her and takes his real desires somewhere else, sometimes to a prostitute, then comes home and gives his wife almost nothing. That&#8217;s how a huge number of dead bedrooms get built where the woman is being denied sex from her husband. Not because she stopped wanting sex. Because he split desire and respect into two piles and put his wife in the wrong one.</p><p>Here's what almost nobody in the red pill space says, because we like everything black and white for simplicity. The good girl and the dirty girl are the same girl. We do talk about this a lot. There was never a wall between them. One woman holds out on you for one of two reasons. Either she doesn&#8217;t like you enough to break her rules, we do talk about this a lot, but it could also be that she likes you so much she&#8217;s scared you&#8217;ll judge her if she does. That second one gets missed constantly, and it&#8217;s costing men the exact thing they want.</p><p>Because here&#8217;s what happens over a woman&#8217;s life. She likes a guy, she breaks her rules for him, she shows him a little of the real her, and he treats her like garbage afterward. Judges her. Pulls back the second things get physical. So she does what any person does after getting burned enough times. She stops showing that side to anyone. She leads with the version that feels safe, appropriate, socially approved, because she&#8217;s seen firsthand what happens when a man can&#8217;t handle the rest of her. Has a woman ever gone cold on you the moment things got physical, and you never figured out why? Now you know what you were looking at.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pnnB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77304031-2d82-46a4-89e9-b1a6f404dac3_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pnnB!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F77304031-2d82-46a4-89e9-b1a6f404dac3_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pnnB!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, 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A skeleton sitting on a park bench, fully turned to bone, and the caption: you, waiting for your girl to express her dirty fantasies.</p><p>That&#8217;s a mistake a lot of guys are making. If you sit around waiting for her to just come out and tell you what she wants, you&#8217;ll be on that bench a long damn time, because that safe environment doesn&#8217;t build itself. She opens up when you are consistently nonjudgmental about whatever she shares, over and over, until her nervous system believes it. One good reaction doesn&#8217;t undo years of learning to hide. Consistency does.</p><p>And here is the strategy most guys get backwards. Don't make her go first. When you show her what you're into with confidence, you hand her plausible deniability. Now she's not the freak who brought it up. She's just going along with you. You gave her cover, and cover is the exact thing she's been missing. That's why waiting for her to guide things is a dead end. Someone has to go first, and it can't be her.</p><p>But hear this part, because it matters more than the talking. Most of this works better as action than conversation. Don&#8217;t talk about it. Be about it. A guy who joined W.O.L.F. Pack this weekend said when he <em><strong>ASKS</strong></em> his wife for a blowjob, she usually gives it, but she isn&#8217;t exactly enthusiastic. The fix is right there in the problem. You don&#8217;t ask for that. You stop turning desire into a request she has to approve, and you start leading it through what you&#8217;re actually doing in the moment. What she wants usually doesn&#8217;t need a conversation. It needs you to bring it out through action, with the confidence that you won't shy away from your own desire or from hers.</p><p>That confidence is the name of the game, and it&#8217;s the thing you build. <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a> on Amazon or Audible walks through exactly how to lead in the bedroom, how to read what she actually responds to, and how to become the one man safe enough to hand the filthy version of herself to. <em>Grab your copy</em> while you&#8217;re thinking about it, because the longer you wait, the longer she keeps handing you the vanilla version she&#8217;s been giving you for a while now.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hD4_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2fb27336-3a48-4335-80ec-44a4d65dffde_1080x1080.png" 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Her desire is real and it&#8217;s already there, proven by thousands of anonymous women who told the truth the second they knew no one would judge them. She hides it because she learned the hard way what men do with it. And she only stops hiding it for the man who proves, through consistent action and zero judgment, that he&#8217;s safe enough to not only handle it, but follow through with it.</p><p>Be that man and you get something no toy ever could give her. She attaches to you the way she never has with anyone, because you&#8217;re the one guy who saw the real her and wanted her more for it, not less.</p><p>This is the exact work we do inside <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, and right now there&#8217;s a reason to jump on it. The price goes up September 1st. Every man who joins before then gets grandfathered in at the current ten bucks a month, locked at that rate for good, even after everyone joining later pays more. So if you&#8217;ve been sitting on the fence, <em>lock in your spot</em> before the first, and get in the group with men working on the same things.</p><p>She&#8217;s been handing you the safe version this whole time. Now you know why, and you know what actually opens the door. So quit waiting on the bench and go be the man she finally stops hiding from.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/shes-hiding-filthier-desires-than/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/shes-hiding-filthier-desires-than/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[137 People Changed A Particle's Behavior Without Touching It. That Should Bother You.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A physics result that refuses to go away, why the machine explanation fell apart the moment they tested it, and what it means for the guy who's been told his own mind doesn't matter.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/137-people-changed-a-particles-behavior</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/137-people-changed-a-particles-behavior</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:01:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Nry!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F351e2547-21ec-462d-b404-92d04fce57b9_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Physicists wanted to settle one question. Is light made of particles or waves? So they built a simple test. Fire light at a barrier with two slits in it and see how it lands on the screen behind. Particles would leave two clean bands, one behind each slit. Waves would spread out, pass through both slits, and ripple into an interference pattern of many stripes.</p><p>They fired individual particles at it, one at a time, expecting two neat bands. Instead they got the interference pattern. Each single particle, with nothing around it to interfere with, was somehow going through both slits at once and interfering with itself. Light was behaving like a wave even when sent one particle at a time.</p><p>Physicists could live with that, barely. Then somebody asked the question that broke it wide open. What happens if we watch which slit it actually goes through?</p><p>So they ran the exact same test again, this time with a detector placed at the slits to observe each particle&#8217;s path. And the wave behavior vanished. With something watching, each particle picked one slit like a normal solid object and left two clean bands, no interference at all. Same experiment. The only thing that changed between the two runs was whether the particles were being observed. Observed, they acted like particles. Unobserved, they acted like waves.</p><p>That&#8217;s the double-slit experiment, it&#8217;s over a hundred years old, and it&#8217;s still one of the most argued-about results in physics. Sit with it for a second, because where it goes next is going to land a lot closer to home than a lab bench.</p><p>There&#8217;s a version of you reading this right now who&#8217;s already decided this is woo woo nonsense. Good. That guy is exactly who I wrote this for, because <em>keep reading</em> and you&#8217;re going to watch the most obvious skeptical objection to all this get tested directly and fall apart.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Nry!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F351e2547-21ec-462d-b404-92d04fce57b9_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Nry!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F351e2547-21ec-462d-b404-92d04fce57b9_1024x572.jpeg 424w, 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The detector did it. A measuring device is a physical thing, and when it interacts with a particle that small, it bumps it, disturbs it, knocks it into behaving like a solid object. Nothing mystical going on. The machine caused the change, and consciousness had nothing to do with any of it.</p><p>That explanation had one job. Keep the mind out of the picture. And for a long stretch it worked, because it sounded reasonable and nobody had cleanly tested it.</p><p>Then researchers decided to actually test it.</p><p>They set up the double-slit apparatus and instead of a mechanical detector, they used people. Human participants sitting near the equipment, directing focused attention toward the slits. No contact. No device touching the particles. No mechanical interaction of any kind. Just awareness, pointed at the experiment.</p><p>The interference pattern decreased. The same shift a mechanical detector produced, except this time the only thing &#8220;watching&#8221; was a human mind.</p><p>One hundred and thirty-seven people took part across six controlled experiments, 250 sessions in total. When they focused their attention toward the slits, the particles moved toward the behavior you only get when something is observing them. When attention was pulled away, the wave behavior came back. The effect tracked directly with the presence and the quality of human attention, and the researchers went down the list ruling out everything else. Temperature. Vibration. Signal drift. Equipment artifacts. None of it accounted for the result. The one variable that kept moving the needle was focused human consciousness.</p><p>Then it got worse for the skeptics, not better.</p><p>The people who meditated regularly produced the effect at roughly two and a half times the strength of the people who didn&#8217;t. The more trained and disciplined the attention, the bigger the measurable change in the physical behavior of the particles. That&#8217;s a dose-response relationship, the same kind of pattern you see when a bigger dose of a drug produces a bigger effect. And a machine doesn&#8217;t do that. A detector doesn&#8217;t get better results after it&#8217;s been meditating. The quality of the mind mattered, which is the one thing the mechanical explanation can&#8217;t survive.</p><p><em>Read that again</em> if you skimmed it, because it&#8217;s the hinge the entire rest of this rests on. Not &#8220;thoughts are powerful&#8221; as a slogan. A measured, replicated, dose-dependent effect of human attention on physical matter.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>What The Hermeticists Said A Century Before Anyone Ran The Numbers</h3><p>Here&#8217;s where this stops being a physics curiosity.</p><p>In 1908 a book came out with no author&#8217;s name on it. Just a group calling themselves the Three Initiates, seven principles, and a claim that the wisdom traced back thousands of years to ancient Egypt. The very first principle they laid down, before vibration, before cause and effect, before any of the rest, was this. The universe is mental.</p><p>Not &#8220;the universe has some mental stuff in it.&#8221; The universe is mental at its foundation. Matter isn&#8217;t the bottom layer that accidentally produced consciousness. Consciousness is the bottom layer, and matter is what it looks like when that underlying intelligence expresses itself into form. They put that principle first on purpose, because if you don&#8217;t grasp it, none of the other six make any sense.</p><p>The physicists running those double-slit experiments were not trying to prove a 1908 occult text. They were running controlled science and reporting what came out of it. What came out of it was that focused human attention produces measurable, repeatable changes in the behavior of matter. That is exactly what the first principle predicts, arrived at from the completely opposite direction.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the part that reaches into your actual life. Every thought you have is already a physical event. Think about something that pisses you off and your cortisol climbs, your heart rate jumps, your muscles tighten. The thought came first, the body followed. That connection is so well documented nobody argues it anymore. Your brain is an electrochemical organ, and the electrical activity running your thoughts generates a field that instruments can measure extending past your skin. You are not a sealed box thinking private thoughts that stay locked inside bone. You&#8217;re broadcasting, right now, whether you ever agreed to or not.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!onHf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd32bcad5-43f3-4ede-bdc7-ea1d77ed9cb0_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!onHf!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd32bcad5-43f3-4ede-bdc7-ea1d77ed9cb0_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!onHf!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, 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A thought you have once is just a thought. A thought you run on repeat carves an actual pathway in your neurology, and that pathway gets easier to travel every single time until it becomes a default you don&#8217;t even notice you&#8217;re choosing.</p><p>What you think consistently, you become. Not just in your head. In the physical structure of your brain.</p><p>So put the pieces together. Your repeated thoughts are physically reshaping your brain. Your brain is generating a field that extends past your body. And focused human attention has a measured effect on matter at the quantum level. The influence of what you think doesn&#8217;t stop at the inside of your skull. It runs your body chemistry, it rewires your neurology, and it radiates outward into everything around you.</p><p>The man who consistently runs himself as capable, focused, moving toward something worth having is not just having nicer thoughts than the guy stuck in resentment and limitation. He&#8217;s running a completely different program at the level of his biology and the field he&#8217;s putting out, and over years those two programs build two entirely different lives. That&#8217;s not a pep talk. That&#8217;s the mechanism, and it&#8217;s been quietly measured across neuroscience, physics, and intention research that never set out to agree with a mystical text and ended up agreeing with it anyway.</p><p>This is the whole reason the Principle of Mentalism sits first in the stack. You can&#8217;t work with vibration until you understand your own thoughts have a frequency. You can&#8217;t work with cause and effect until you see that your habitual thinking is one of the loudest causes running in your life. Every other principle is built on this one foundation, that your mind is not a bystander watching a world it can&#8217;t touch.</p><p>That&#8217;s what <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> does across all seven principles. It takes the ancient framework, lays it next to the modern science that keeps accidentally confirming it, and then does the part almost nobody bothers with. It shows you how to actually use it. And here&#8217;s the promise I&#8217;ll make you straight up, the same one I make on the show every week. You don&#8217;t have to believe the quantum stuff. You don&#8217;t have to buy the mysticism. You don&#8217;t have to be sold on any of it. You just have to <em>follow the instructions</em> and apply them, because this is universal law, and universal law doesn&#8217;t check whether you believe in it before it works. Gravity doesn&#8217;t ask for your faith. Neither does this.</p><p>Kindle, paperback, and hardcover are all <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">live right now</a>. The Audible edition is expected August 5th, so if listening is more your speed, <em>set a calendar reminder.</em></p><p>That skeptic reading this at the start had it backwards, and now he knows it. The question was never whether your mind touches the reality around you. The experiments settled that part. The only thing left to sort out is whether you&#8217;re going to keep running that program by accident, or finally take the wheel on purpose.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/137-people-changed-a-particles-behavior/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/137-people-changed-a-particles-behavior/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Emotion You Feel Runs At A Measurable Number. Yours Is Deciding How Your Life Goes.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The measurable frequency you're putting out without knowing it, why women read it before you say anything, and the three tools that move you up the scale on purpose.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-emotion-you-feel-runs-at-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-emotion-you-feel-runs-at-a</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:02:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Szyi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24780b26-e74a-4d22-a7be-55e0b3feac32_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Put your hand on the table in front of you. Feels solid, right? It isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s dense energy vibrating fast enough that your nervous system reads the collision as solid. At the quantum level there&#8217;s nothing solid in it at all. Scale up an atom and the space between the center and the particles around it runs miles. Almost everything you can see is mostly empty space, held together by motion.</p><p>The table&#8217;s a frequency. So are you.</p><p>And here&#8217;s the part that runs your whole life without you even realizing it. The emotional state you&#8217;re sitting in right now is a frequency too, a measurable one, and it&#8217;s broadcasting into the field around you every waking second. Stay with me to the end, because the back half is where I hand you the three tools that move you up the scale on purpose instead of leaving you parked at a station you never chose.</p><div id="youtube2-JPh-QTfKfLI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;JPh-QTfKfLI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JPh-QTfKfLI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>Nothing Rests. Everything Vibrates.</h3><p>Max Planck looked at all of this and saw one giant field of energy under everything. He called it the matrix of reality. For years it was the Planck field, and then CERN went looking with the Large Hadron Collider and found evidence of it, and now they call it the Higgs field. You are not separate from that field. You are the field, the same as everything else around you.</p><p>The old teachers said this thousands of years before anyone could measure a thing. The third Hermetic principle states it clearly. Nothing rests. Everything vibrates. They didn&#8217;t hedge it as a spiritual opinion you could take or leave. They stated it as a fact about how reality is built, and for most of history you either believed it or you didn&#8217;t, because there was no way to check. Then physics went looking underneath matter and found motion all the way down, exactly what those teachers described with no instruments at all.</p><p>That&#8217;s the engine of <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a>, which dropped today on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover. Seven ancient principles laid next to the modern physics that keeps confirming them, and then the part almost nobody hands you, how to actually use it. And I&#8217;ll give you the promise I give on my podcast. You don&#8217;t have to believe the woo woo. You just have to follow the instructions and <em>you will get results</em>. There&#8217;s no way you can&#8217;t. It&#8217;s universal law.</p><p>So if everything vibrates, and you&#8217;re part of the field, then the question that matters is simple. What frequency are you running?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Scale From 0 To 1000</h3><p>A psychiatrist named David Hawkins spent decades mapping human emotional states onto a scale from zero to a thousand. Every state got a calibrated number. He wrote it up in Power versus Force, and a better one for most guys called Letting Go, which I recommend if you&#8217;re a man living in anger, mad all the time, stuck in the low end and not sure why.</p><p>Shame sits at the bottom. Push a man far enough down into guilt and shame and he gets to the point where he doesn&#8217;t want to be alive. That&#8217;s the floor. Courage sits right above the middle of the scale, and it&#8217;s the most important mark on the whole thing.</p><p>Everything splits at 200. Below 200, the states drain energy out of you and out of everyone near you. You know the feeling of being around someone negative all the time, how your own energy gets pulled down into the hole with them. That&#8217;s not in your head. That&#8217;s you picking up a low frequency and starting to match it. Low-frequency people love company. Crabs in a bucket, reaching up to pull anyone climbing out back down with them. This is the whole MGTOW and black pill world. Miserable, and working to drag everyone else into the bucket. It&#8217;s why single female friends sabotage a woman&#8217;s good relationship, getting in her ear, talking shit, because they can&#8217;t stand watching her climb out while they&#8217;re still down there.</p><p>Above 200, you&#8217;re in your power. Things start to feel close to effortless, across every area of your life. Not to get all religious, but Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is within you. Well so is hell. You&#8217;re living in heaven when you&#8217;re up above the 200 line and hell when you&#8217;re down below it, and hell isn&#8217;t some fiery place you go after you die. You&#8217;re living in one or the other right now, in your actual experience, based on the frequency you&#8217;re running. The man stuck below 200 keeps asking why everything bad keeps happening to him and can&#8217;t see that he&#8217;s broadcasting the exact signal pulling it in.</p><p>Courage is the doorway because courage is where you can look at your situation straight, admit what&#8217;s not working, and start doing something about it. Everything below it slides toward denial and avoidance, because down there you don&#8217;t have the energy to face anything. You&#8217;re struggling to get through the day. The second you reach courage, you&#8217;ve got enough power to move, and once you can move, you can climb.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u6Su!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3573b99b-a3ce-4ce0-b6a8-a186f7b74f9e_1264x843.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u6Su!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3573b99b-a3ce-4ce0-b6a8-a186f7b74f9e_1264x843.png 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!u6Su!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, 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frequency you&#8217;re actually running, not the one you&#8217;re trying to present. Your baseline broadcasts nonstop. You can manage your surface presentation for a while, but the real signal never shuts off, and her attraction system is tuned to pick up stability. That&#8217;s what a shit test is. She&#8217;s checking whether you&#8217;ve got your shit together, reading your baseline, and she reads it accurately even when she couldn&#8217;t put it into words.</p><p>This is why a needy guy reeks of needy no matter how he dresses it up. He&#8217;s calling all the time, texting constantly, hauling over flowers and chocolates to prove how much he desires her, and desire is a low-scale frequency loaded with need. She feels it. She can&#8217;t always name it, but she calls it creepy, or off, or she just goes cold, and the guy stands there confused because on paper he did everything right. He did everything right at the wrong frequency.</p><p>The man who&#8217;s done the work isn&#8217;t pretending to be calm. He isn&#8217;t faking anything. He just is that way, because he&#8217;s running higher on the scale. She throws a shit test and he doesn&#8217;t blow up, doesn&#8217;t storm out, doesn&#8217;t get up in his feelings. He sees her behavior for what it is, a woman acting like a goofy teenager, and he&#8217;s amused by it instead of rattled. She feels that too. Whether she&#8217;s reading his energy off the field or reading his body language and tone, or both, the result is the same. The high-frequency man doesn&#8217;t have to say anything. His baseline already told her everything.</p><p>Here is a concept most guys never understand. How intense a feeling is tells you nothing about where it ranks on the scale. Infatuation feels enormous from the inside and it&#8217;s below the line of real power, because it&#8217;s desire loaded with need. The love Hawkins put at 500 isn&#8217;t a romantic feeling at all. Romantic attachment actually calibrates lower, because it&#8217;s stuffed with need and conditions. Some of the most intense states a man can feel, rage, obsession, infatuation, are the lowest ones on the scale. Intensity is not the same as high vibration wise.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Szyi!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24780b26-e74a-4d22-a7be-55e0b3feac32_1024x572.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Szyi!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_424, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24780b26-e74a-4d22-a7be-55e0b3feac32_1024x572.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Szyi!, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/w_848, /__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/c_limit, 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Three tools that raise your baseline. Awareness, redirection, release.</p><p>Awareness comes first, because you can&#8217;t change a frequency you can&#8217;t see. Most men have never once stopped to ask what they&#8217;re actually running. So you build the habit of checking in. Pause through the day and ask what&#8217;s running in me right now. Not judging it. Watching it. You step back and observe your own state instead of being buried inside it, and that space between you and the state is where every bit of your leverage lives. Without it, the old pattern just runs on autopilot the second you stop paying attention.</p><p>Redirection comes second, and gratitude is the fastest way to run it. One of the easiest ways out of a low state is to move your attention onto what you're grateful for, because gratitude sits high on the scale and your attention can't hold a low frequency and a high one at the same time. So you deliberately point your focus at what's already good, and your baseline starts climbing to meet it. This isn't woo woo. It's your reticular activating system, the same filter that makes you see your exact truck everywhere once you buy it. Tune it to gratitude and it starts pointing out everything that confirms things are working, instead of everything confirming they aren't. You're changing the station. A radio tuned to oldies is never going to play hard rock no matter how bad you want it. You have to change the frequency first, then you start picking up what you actually want.</p><p>Release comes third, and it's the one most guys don&#8217;t even think about. Awareness shows you the low state and gratitude starts moving you off it, but a low state like anger, anxiety, depression, or whatever's got you parked on the lower scale of vibration, has to actually get let go, not stuffed down. You don't grip it, replay it, or feed it. You feel it and you let it move through and out. This is the point of Hawkins' book Letting Go, and it works because those low states only hold their charge as long as you keep holding onto them. Stop feeding the anger and it loses its grip on your frequency. Stop replaying the thing that's got you anxious and your baseline climbs on its own. You tuned the dial with gratitude. Release is taking your hand off the old station so it stops dragging you back down.</p><p>Think of a cork floating on water. It sits there in a harmonious state, operating at a higher frequency. Holding onto a low vibrational frequency is very much like pushing the cork under water. Once it&#8217;s under water, getting it to raise to a higher frequency is easy, you just have to release it and let it go. This is how acceptance works. </p><p>Run those three and your baseline climbs. And when your baseline climbs, everything downstream of it changes, because the signal you are putting out changed. The woman in your life feels it. So do the other people around you, the deal you are trying to close, and anyone deciding whether they want you involved. You stop forcing outcomes and start operating from power, and the field answers the higher signal the same way it was answering the low one the whole time.</p><h3>Where You&#8217;re Actually Sitting</h3><p>So scroll up and look at the scale, and be honest about where you spend most of your days. If your answer is somewhere below that 200 line, now you know why the same problems keep finding you, why the women pull away or lose interest, why everything feels like force instead of flow. You&#8217;ve been broadcasting a frequency you never chose, and it&#8217;s been answering you back this whole time.</p><p>You can climb it on purpose and begin changing your results in life. <a href="https://mybook.to/kybalionrevisited">The Kybalion Revisited</a> is the manual for running the full process, out today on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover. The promise stands. You don&#8217;t have to believe the woo woo. Follow the instructions and you get the result, because this is universal law and it works whether you believe in it or not. Just like gravity.</p><p>And you climb faster with men in your corner than you ever will alone. A low-frequency crowd drags you down into the bucket. The right group pulls you up the scale, checks your blind spots, and pushes you higher than you'd get on your own. That's <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a>, over a hundred men already living up the top end of that scale, or working to get there. Tomorrow at 11am ET we're running our monthly podclass for members only, breaking down how to build a roster of women and start spinning plates, which is a lot easier to pull off when your baseline frequency is high enough that women feel it on you. The seven-day free trial gets you in the door for it.</p><p>You're the field. You always were. So tune the dial on purpose, because it's going to answer back either way. You might as well tune into a channel you enjoy.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-emotion-you-feel-runs-at-a/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/every-emotion-you-feel-runs-at-a/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're Courting One Woman. She's Dating Four Guys. That's Why You Keep Striking Out.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the one-at-a-time playbook stopped working, how women actually date now, and the one thing that turns you from the guy she's stringing along into the guy she's competing for.]]></description><link>https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/youre-courting-one-woman-shes-dating</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/youre-courting-one-woman-shes-dating</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Bauer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:01:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qPlc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bca0c1b-fa09-4329-b80e-6d1a945ea4a9_1024x572.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do everything right. You open her door. You plan the whole night. You treat her well, you text back fast, you&#8217;re respectful, you&#8217;re present. And you still hear &#8220;absolutely not,&#8221; or you get ghosted after one great date, and you can&#8217;t figure out what the hell you did wrong.</p><p>You didn&#8217;t do anything wrong. That&#8217;s the part nobody tells you. Your manners were never the problem.</p><p>The problem is you&#8217;re courting one woman at a time in a world where she&#8217;s dating four guys at once to weigh her options. You went all in on her. She&#8217;s running a rotation. You&#8217;re playing a game from 1946 and she&#8217;s playing by 2026 rules, and you&#8217;re losing every hand because you don&#8217;t even know the rules changed.</p><p>Stick with me all the way through, because the part most guys get wrong doesn&#8217;t become clear until later, and it&#8217;s the piece that turns this whole thing around for you.</p><div id="youtube2-ZVWW5CWssVE" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;ZVWW5CWssVE&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZVWW5CWssVE?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><h3>She&#8217;s Doing What Any Sane Person Would Do</h3><p>Here&#8217;s how women actually date now. She&#8217;s not entertaining one guy and hoping it works out. She&#8217;s got suitors. She&#8217;s weighing a pool and moving toward the best option in it. Women call it dating. Men call it spinning plates. Same behavior, and she&#8217;s been running it since the beginning of time.</p><p>This is hypergamy, and it&#8217;s worth understanding because it&#8217;s the engine under everything else. A man walks into a party and wants to bang every attractive woman there. His scale is binary. Would fuck or wouldn&#8217;t fuck. A woman walks into the same party and doesn&#8217;t want every attractive guy. She wants the best one. The highest status guy in there. That&#8217;s her instinct, and it&#8217;s why the two of you are running completely different strategies.</p><p>Now add open hypergamy. Feminism made it socially acceptable for a woman to date and hook up with multiple guys at once, and that&#8217;s just the water you&#8217;re swimming in now. Here&#8217;s the part most guys miss while they&#8217;re mad about it. This works to your advantage if you let it. Almost nobody lets it.</p><p>Most guys are sniper dating. They see one woman, go all in, and the blinders come down. They stop seeing the better options standing right in front of them. Then this one woman gives mixed messages, flakes on a date, goes cold on the texts, and the guy&#8217;s whole world caves in, because his entire week was riding on one woman he&#8217;s known for two weeks texting him back.</p><p>Women don&#8217;t actually give mixed messages when you stop listening to what she says and only watch what she does. She&#8217;s either into you or she isn&#8217;t, and her actions tell you which every time. It stops being complicated the second you stop reading the words and start reading the behavior.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>The Thing That Changes Everything</h3><p>So here&#8217;s the fix. You take her playbook and you run it yourself. You date multiple women, same as she&#8217;s dating multiple men, and you stay detached from the process.</p><p>Watch what happens when you do. Dating gets easier, because you&#8217;re not dumping emotional investment into every woman you talk to before she&#8217;s earned a cent of it. If you haven&#8217;t been seeing a woman for multiple months, she hasn&#8217;t earned your emotional investment yet. So you stop getting crushed when one flakes. This one&#8217;s not as into you as the other two? Fine. You spend your time on the two giving you their time and attention, and you let the cold one go. Whatever. Next.</p><p>When your whole world is riding on one woman texting back, you&#8217;ve turned yourself into the sniper dater again. When you&#8217;ve got a few plates spinning, you don&#8217;t care if one goes quiet, because you&#8217;re already out with someone else. That detachment isn&#8217;t an act you have to fake forever, either. Once you&#8217;re actually seeing a few women, you stop having time to obsess over any single one. Your replies space out because you&#8217;re genuinely busy, not because you read it in a text-game article. The behavior becomes real.</p><p>Ask yourself right now, honest number. How many women do you have in rotation? Is it zero? Is it one you&#8217;re gripping way too tight? A couple already spinning? Sit with that number for a second, because it tells you exactly where the work is.</p><h3>Why Options Make You The Prize</h3><p>Here&#8217;s where it compounds, and this is the part worth <em>paying attention to right now</em>.</p><p>Running options makes you more attractive. This is because of preselection, and it comes straight out of evolutionary psychology. Women are more attracted to men that other women already want. The late great Alan Roger Currie said it best, &#8220;Pussy attracts pussy!&#8221;</p><p>There&#8217;s a real reason for it. When a woman decides to sleep with a man, pregnancy is a genuine possibility, and pregnancy puts her in a vulnerable spot for nine months and a dependent one for years after. So she&#8217;s got a vested interest in making sure the guy is a good bet. Sussing that out from scratch on a brand new man takes forever. So evolution handed her a shortcut. If other women already want this guy, he&#8217;s probably already a solid candidate. She&#8217;s wired to be more drawn to a man other women like, because it saves her the vetting.</p><p>Now here&#8217;s what most guys get dead wrong about this. You don&#8217;t need a harem of models on your arm for her to see it. Some guys selling courses will tell you preselection only works if you&#8217;ve got gorgeous women physically around you. Not true. She reads it off your behavior. A guy who spins plates carries himself different. He&#8217;s charming, he&#8217;s playful, he&#8217;s good at banter. She throws a shit test and he plays with it, agrees and amplifies, turns it into a joke, handles her silliness without effort. She walks away thinking this guy is good with women, and that does the whole job.</p><p>This is where she starts probing. &#8220;So are you seeing other people?&#8221; The old-school guy panics and says &#8220;no, no, just you,&#8221; thinking that&#8217;s what she wants to hear. He might as well tell her he doesn&#8217;t get laid. Because that&#8217;s what she hears in the subtext. Instead you say something playful. &#8220;I always have room for one more.&#8221; It could mean you&#8217;re seeing nobody. It could mean you&#8217;re seeing ten women. It&#8217;s vague enough that she fills in the blank herself, and she fills it in with &#8220;he&#8217;s probably seeing other girls,&#8221; and at a subconscious level that pulls her toward you. Now her competition anxiety kicks in. She wants to win. She wants to be the one you choose out of your options.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the truth that ties every man reading this together. Some of you are dating. Some are married. Some are deep in a long-term relationship wanting to learn how to game your own wife or girlfriend. Doesn&#8217;t matter. Whether you&#8217;ve got one woman or fifteen, you all need the same thing. You need to know how to fuck her better than anyone before you did. That&#8217;s the whole reason I wrote <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a>. Because preselection gets her in the door, but what you do once she&#8217;s in your bed decides whether she locks in or keeps shopping. 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Both Of You.</h3><p>Get this straight, because it kills most of the suffering. You&#8217;re single until the exclusivity talk, and so is she. Nobody owes anybody anything before that conversation happens. You get to spin other plates. She gets to as well, and she probably is.</p><p>Just assume she&#8217;s seeing other guys. She might not be sleeping with all of them, because here&#8217;s how women actually operate. They make rules for the men they&#8217;re not that attracted to, and they break rules for the men they are. So she might be seeing four or five guys, stringing along the ones she sees as a provider, a good dude who&#8217;ll pay her bills, while she&#8217;s actually sleeping with the one she finds hot. She might be sleeping only with you and stringing four other guys along. You don&#8217;t know. And while you&#8217;re being loyal to a woman you&#8217;ve had two dates with, she&#8217;s weighing her options like any sane person would in 2026.</p><p>There&#8217;s an idea from <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Archwinger&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:161888626,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/23da746f-8a36-40e7-87e2-0ab5f30805fe_474x474.jpeg&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;5cfc0e61-d42f-4094-8d81-eca8df1ba194&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span>, a legend in this space who&#8217;s been on the show. Assume she&#8217;s a slut, but don&#8217;t obsess about it. Because obsessing over her body count is just pedestalizing her from the other direction. You&#8217;re putting her in the good-woman category before she&#8217;s earned it. Assume she&#8217;s weighing her options, don&#8217;t fixate on it, and go get yours too.</p><p>The other thing that instantly lowers the stakes: quit calling it a date. A guy in my group told a 23 year old he wanted to take her on an official date, pick her up, open the door, roll out the red carpet like a gentleman. Her response? &#8220;Ew. Gross.&#8221; Not because he&#8217;s ugly, he ended up sleeping with her. Because the word &#8220;date&#8221; loads a modern woman up with pressure. She&#8217;s not there to get courted. She&#8217;s there to see if she even likes you.</p><p>So treat it like she does. A chemistry test. I used to go on first dates not trying to get laid, just to see if I even liked the chick I was on the date with. That takes the pressure off her, off you, off the whole thing, and it lets you actually find out if she&#8217;s worth your time. Most won&#8217;t be. A lot of these are one drink and done, and that&#8217;s a win, because you found out fast and cheap instead of investing weeks into someone wrong for you.</p><h3>Her Job, Not Yours</h3><p>Here&#8217;s the frame that pulls it all together. Briffault&#8217;s Law:</p><blockquote><p>The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.</p></blockquote><p>Read what that actually means for you. The relationship is her job to lock down, not yours to beg for. It&#8217;s her work to secure you because she sees real value in you. And you want her locking you down for your dick, not the wallet, because the woman who wants you for your wallet is the woman who dead-bedrooms you the second the ring&#8217;s on. This is exactly why what happens in the bedroom isn&#8217;t separate from any of this. It&#8217;s the thing that makes her value you for the right reason, and it&#8217;s the whole point of <a href="https://mybook.to/dickherdownright">Dick Her Down Right</a>.</p><p>Run this correctly and the whole dynamic flips. The women who don&#8217;t really want you are the ones you&#8217;d be chasing. The women who do want you start chasing you. They start putting in the effort, competing for your time and attention, and those are better women anyway, because they&#8217;ve got genuine desire instead of a plan to use you.</p><p>We&#8217;re probably going deeper on exactly how to build this rotation this Saturday in the <a href="https://wolf.comeonmanpod.com">W.O.L.F. Pack</a> monthly podclass. The members are still voting, and building a roster is currently in the lead. If this is the thing you keep getting wrong, that group full of guys working the same problem is where you fix it fastest. The seven-day free trial gets you in for it.</p><p>That number you gave me earlier, the count of women in your rotation. If it was zero or one, now you know why the dates keep ending the same way. You&#8217;ve been the only guy playing a one-at-a-time game in a world where everyone else, including her, is playing the field. So start acting like the man who&#8217;s got options, because that&#8217;s how you become that guy.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/youre-courting-one-woman-shes-dating/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/comeonmanpod.substack.com/p/youre-courting-one-woman-shes-dating/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>