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An asshole is someone who is hurtful and insensitive. It is either their way or its awful. It is either what they think or it is stupid. An asshole makes you earn respect and if you can earn it you feel like its oh so great when you deserved it to begin with.
It is hard to get love out of an asshole.
A maneater is a girl who gives you her attention. She flirts with you then she does not care about the feelings you develop for her.
She is hard to get . She pulls away, she flirts with other guys, and it hurts. You try hard to get her. You put in work. You buy stuff, you give her time, you give her endless compliments and it seems to make no dent. Its like the easier you are for her to get the less she likes you. Then by some miracle you happen to impress her and you get her and you feel very accomplished but when you think about its like she was not worth all that effort and heartache.
Self-respect means to value yourself as a man. You're worth something and so people should treat you accordingly. You're worth something so you act accordingly. You don't let people disrespect you. You behave with dignity. Ideally, this means the woman works for you. You don't work for the woman.
Ego means to have an inflated self-image, such as thinking of yourself as a King or Queen, or thinking of yourself as a superstar, or as superman. People value what they have to work and sacrifice for so what is hard to get is something that they probably value highly. If you have a big ego you probably want what is hard to get, but what is hard to get sometimes puts you through shit so it hurts your ego while pursuing it. Then more shit you get put through makes you feel inadequate and the fear of inadequacy makes you desperate to validate your ego. Trying to validate your ego means you are
Arrogant & Insecure You have an inflated sense of self and you are afraid of losing it, but you're willing to take abuse to take validate your ego. For instance...hot girls always dating ass holes. A guy said something about girls that like assholes are codependent and that is precisely it. These girls hate what they go through, but because they are ego driven they want to get the guy.
If you ever read the story of Great Gatsby you have a character that was rejected by a girl because he was poor then he goes on to become rich just to get the girl. Its all about her. It takes great self-esteem to achieve greatness, but it shows little self-respect to put in all that time and effort for just a person. He submitted to her. Its like she's a queen and he's her servant. Arrogant and Insecure. However, this happens all through out life where you are trying to earn someone else's respect. Its like the gang member doing wild and crazy shit just to be a part of a gang.
To key to avoid falling into a vicious cycle trying to validate your ego is to have perspective. I have talked about romanticism again and again. Pussy is just a warm meathole. Sex is just entertainment similar to an xbox. Love is a strong feeling, but so is gas....
The important points of this post:
1.) Hot girls are often ego drive. Arrogant but insecure.
2.) Ironically, seeking ego validation can make you submit to people.
3.) Assholes make your earn affection so they are naturally attractive to Ego driven individuals since we value what is hard to get.
4.) Complimenting an ego driven person only makes their ego bigger and can make them more confident to go through bullshit for a person. Insulting them only makes them feel like more afraid of their ego being proven untrue and may make them desperate for someones attention out of fear of losing their ego. The only solution is to believe you are too good for bullshit. Feelings like you're too good for bullshit ends codepedency

That's one definition of the ego... but the more common definition of ego that we go by on this forum... as written by Mods like pumpington, chief, rye lee, and even RSD talks about this one as well... is the need for any attention. It's more based on not needing any validation of others... Eckhart Tolle, as well as a slew of other authors... quite similar to the buddhist concept of Ego.
Self-esteem didn't make that guy a success his ego did, his need to show himself to be more. BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE. When you do something for someone else that is ego orientated. Self-esteem is doing things for you.
Self-respect while a part of self-esteem is not the same. Respecting yourself is more living with personal integrity... which means a life that falls in line with your own beliefs. Now Self-esteem is pretty much what you said about self-respect.
Note: Your so keen on this disrespect... ironically this is the ego you just lectured on... demanding you be treated with respect is quite similar to what a king or queen does right?
The funny thing is I agreed with so much of it... it's just your ridiculous uneducated thought on self-esteem.
Once again a decent post ruined by you not being educated enough on a topic and speaking out your ass speaking your non-sense opinion and ignoring the facts of what self-esteem really is.
I'm going to be very blunt in front of the rest of the guys here because it's tiring to read your nonsense and most of the experienced guys feel the same:
Honestly do you have any technical knowledge on inner game? NO... so stop talking about it. Find something you know about. Which lets see the list at this point doesn't include women, self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect, kindness, what else are we going to find out you don't understand?
I'm tired of having to dissect your uneducated posts... many people feel you're an idiot. I've heard you called even worse things when complaining about you based on your ignorance and not having a fucking clue what you're talking about.
I'll say what I said in my PM: Please leave the forum. You're publishing information that can hurt a lot of guys long term and can literally leave a life long mental crippling.
We discussed this through pm... YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SELF-ESTEEM... GO READ ABOUT IT and stop talking about it. Again these aren't my opinions or made up thoughts on self-esteem.. So stop fucking thinking that... it just makes you appear that much more ignorant and awfully arrogant for guy to be lecturing on it.
Arrogance being something you feel you have value on when you don't... so when your belief in your abilities exceeds your actual abilities such as your knowledge currently.
Peace and Love,
Vic