• Business is easy, managing people is hard
• Entrepreneurs create jobs, they don’t need jobs
• The difference between a business person leader and a self-employed entrepreneur is the ability to lead teams
• Under pressure, the code becomes clearer. Sharper. Calmer. In support of each other
• Our mission: Elevating the financial and relationship well being of humanity
• Google: To organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful
• Living your own business life
• Never abandon your teammate in need.
• When a code is established, do it early on when the heat is off.
• Under pressure, the team with the strongest code survives. I.e. Military men under fire still need to stay calm and work as a team.
• My own father used to tell me, “always be at least 5 minutes early. This gives you time to prepare and think, and you will be more equipped to take advantage of opportunities and avoid mistakes. Remember the 5 minute rule, son.”

My own code of honor to myself:

1. Be honest about my own desires, fears and feelings towards life.
2. Be on time. 5 minutes prior to meeting. If not, always let the other person know.
3. Don’t over promise.
4. Don’t mislead people.
5. Treat people with respect, even if they are mean to you. Retain your position of calm and high value without becoming an asshole.
6. Always be willing to take calculated risks to achieve my dreams. Taking risks in turn is less risky over time than those who never dare to do anything great.
7. Appreciate talent and people around you.
8. Doubt yourself and question your existing assumptions, but never doubt yourself for too long.
9. Be willing to fight for what you believe in.

Here’s a video from Final Fantasy Crisis Core and the story of Zack Fair. Warning: Spoiler alert if you have never played that game, or Final Fantasy 7 (originally on the PS)

The realization came when Serum started gaming my roommate like it was another target. I realized immediately the pure inequality in the equation.

Roommate Friend = 6.5HB Asian girl
Serum = PUA
Risk of alienating me if relationship becomes more than friends: High
Risk of relationship not working out and being weird: High
Potential conflict of “whose house guest is this?”: Medium
Reward for full closing a HB6.5 Asian girl: relatively low
Weirdness of Serum sleeping in his old room overnight with roommate: High
Risk of jealously from best friend (Me) while gaming roommate: High

And to be honest, when I thought about this I just got really angry. Why risk a good friendship over a mediocre 6.5? IF she was a SHB10 Blonde, sure, got for it, I would be gaming her too but this is a case where the rewards do not justify the means.

Thinking more on this, I realized that most of my female friends (and I only have a few, as I do not easily make female friends and maintain relationships consciously) I introduce Serum to, he has somehow gamed. By gamed I mean, actively pursued 1 on 1 date like activities and attraction building (on purpose /i.e. consciously). And it is this feeling that I have that, when you have a PUA friend, they tend to game any other friend like a “target” that really pissed me off. This anger also made me realize what my other friends must think of me when I think of every girl as a potential target.

This event has made me realize that I don’t want to be that guy who is labeled “a player” and games every girl he sees. This is a DLV both in my co-worker circle as well as in other social circles. I want to be that cool guy that everyone meets, that the girls fall for over time without even thinking about it because of my charisma. And I want to be a man who appreciates his friends, and just because I have pick up skills, it does not mean I have to use them all the time. Having the mastery means having a choice: the choice between respecting friendships and sexual relationships, and being able to convey both and calibrate depending on the timing and circumstances.