A reader affirms the Sigma Game perspective on the difficulty of changing behavioral patterns and shares how he successfully dealt with the implications of that improbability.
Lately, you have constantly wrote about how the status won’t change, because the core behaviour very rarely changes.
Being a low status guy that occasionally, and very situationally have a glimpse of the high status side of things, It was very disheartening to hear. It was kind of soul crushing to know that all of my efforts would all be in vain. However, after pondering it for a few month as well as taking the time to reflect upon the past mistakes, (here it comes) it is ackurally a blessing, as truth often is.
Simply put, low status men simply do not have the energy, mental stability to satisfy the requirement. And if you take the vanity and lust of it away, it is simply not what would be satisfactory for the low status man.
Forcing, faking, leveraging would turn everyone involve miserable.
Thank you for your work, you made it at the very least theoretically possible for me to prune my tendencies, improve my life, and seek excellence in the work I do.
First, let’s not get too binary here. One’s efforts at self-improvement are not necessarily in vain, and also, a failed attempt is better than a nonexistent one. If nothing else, at least you’ll obtain additional information on what doesn’t work.
Another reader confirms the fractal nature of the SSH.
Whilst training Muay Thai in Thailand I was at a bar with some mates from the intermediate and beginners class, amongst my friends I could pick the alpha, bravos deltas and gammas, or so I thought. We were joined by a giant of an Iraqi man and some of his Middle-Eastern and Dagestani counter-parts, who were advanced and pro fighters. The hierarchy seemed to immediately shift and I was suddenly sitting in a group of deltas and gammas, the leader of the new arrivals was undoubtedly the alpha and his companions the Bravos.
It made me consider that in most Thai places full of average Thai people I feel like the Alpha or Sigma but in a fighters bar surrounded by jacked Dagestani's I'm a frightened little Omega or a best a Delta.
I also had the delight of one of the most entertaining interactions between the alpha arrival and the Gamma (Literally the English version of comic book guy from the Simpsons) as they crossed paths, having SSH knowledge in my back pocket is proving to be incredibly interesting and entertaining:
Alpha - where do you think I come from?
Gamma - *what I assume was an attempt at a playful neg but came off a little bitter and dismissive* uh.. I dunno... India?
Alpha - *joking to his mates* can you believe this M*fker thinks I look Indian?
*Now smirking and becoming playfully aggressive with the Gamma* You really think I look like an Indian?
Gamma - *choking on his testicles now stuck in his throat* no.... uh... I'm not sure dude... where are you from?
Alpha - Relax I'm just playing around mate, I'm from Iraq but from now on I shall call you "king Arthur" *spoken in a mock British accent*
Gamma - *muttered under his breath after the alpha has left* whatever you f*kn terrorist.
And that's just the bare bones, which was about 10x more cringy in real life. I think the Gamma saw himself as the leader of our little group of Deltas and a pretty cool dude being in Thailand and swamped with Thai 6's and 7's but couldn't handle the sudden shift in his status when the Alpha arrived.
It can be a little disconcerting when one observes how the hierarchy shifts when new arrivals join the group and the new guys displace the previous Alphas and Bravos. This is why it’s useful to be able to distinguish between the core behavioral pattern, which persists over time, and situational status, which doesn’t.
I am going to disagree with Vox here, knowing full well that he is smarter then I am. However, I do think that I have a better insight into some of the inner feelings and workings of the Gamma, having been one mostly for 31 years (I was really sick and delegated to Omega status for awhile). The core behaviors are quite hard for many to change because of the ways that people go about it. We don't even know what exactly they are trying to fix. Alot goes into behavioral patterns.
My proposition is double.
First the true nature of the Gamma. A gamma is someone born with a certain personality score and/or neurodivergence that leads them to being more sensitive on average. There are sensitive people who are not Gamma. They then try to get socialized early on in life and fail miserably. Whether this is due solely to their personality score, or possible bad/negligent parenting (tons of gammas have single moms) doesn't matter too much. What matters is they experience the opposite of the "winner effect". They try and fail. Try and fail. This is all at a very young age, probably between 2 and 5. This reinforces in their neurobiology that they are a low status man. Due to the pain, they develop egregious maladaptive coping mechanisms such as the classic Gamma Shield.
The second part is how to go about reversing that. Since we now know some of the environmental and neurochemical factors that lead to their behavior, we can work on producing the opposite effect. This is why the Gym works better then a psychology book for a Gamma. Its biology just as much as psychology. Heavy weights, clean meat heavy diet. Celibacy/Semen Retention.
This is a good start, but modern medical engineering has far more to say about healing the nervous system.
Martial arts, Low Dose Nalxterone, Bioenergetic Feedback, eye movement desentsization
If we can get rid of the fear response we can get rid of the Gamma
There is no innate moral goodness in being high status and in fact the Bible has many warnings for those in high places.