#2 Will You Be Ready When Violence is The Only Answer?

Gentlemen, welcome to the beaten man podcast.

I'm the host Greg Denning.

I am the Creator and coach of the be the man master class and tribe.

Today we're going to talk about times and situations where violence is the answer.

And perhaps the only answer there are times and situations in life where people or a situation.

Will only respond to violence and we have to have the clarity first of all to be able to make clear decisions and to be able to distinguish what those situations and people are and to be able to have the competence and confidence to use them appropriately at the time.

There's there's a situation with the Ukrainian Russian invasion into the wrecker ain't Ukraine.

There was there's a situation they're in this interchange that just brought this principle to the surface for me and I want to share some of the details so that like we can all take this at a personal level and say when do I apply this?

When does this actually work?

Because as much as we would all love to live in peaceful times and places.

You know, and we would avoid all of that and maybe some of you will honestly, maybe some of you will you live your whole life without encountering a situation or circumstance or a person where you really genuinely have to use violence.

And, and I hope that's the case that's really great, but seeing that we're in the Last several years of a fourth turning.

And there's some great videos on YouTube about the fourth turning, there's an excellent book called the fourth turning and the one of the authors has passed away, but the author who's still alive.

He he's done some additional videos about it and they wrote it in the third turning.

And you know really predicted we'd be in the fourth turning and we're just in a chaotic time and Ray dalio excellent new book on the changing World.

Order is talking about how the entire Old economy is going to shift its in that time period And there's evidence of that happening.

So it's a time of chaos and upheaval and it's governments overstepping their bounds and under performing its Nation against Nation.

There's a lot of civil unrest and and little Sparks of a potential civil conflict, right?

There's a, there's a lot going on.

And then just even down to regular everyday life where you may have a run-in with a bully or a thief or whatever, right?

Those kind of things do happen.

We live in a world where there is malice.

Yeah, I wish we didn't, I generally referred in like, you know, we all sit around and dream of this time in this place where we can go.

And there's, there's no theft and there's no harm and there's no conflict there.

No, bullies, and no tyrants, and no dictators, and no criminals.

And Dogs and people who wish to do you or your family harm, but the reality is we live in a world that has malice and darkness and evil.

And so because of that, we have a moral responsibility and obligation to be prepared to defend and protect, right?

We don't go looking for fights.

I have to emphasize that so much, we're not looking for a fight.

I don't want to fight.

I hope you don't want to fight.

We're not we're not anxious to go out and hurt people and kill people.

But man.

I hope you feel with conviction that if somebody brings a threat to your doorstep, they better fully expect a response from you that's powerful and dangerous because at some point gentlemen, only really good really dangerous.

Men will keep tyrants and Bullies from committing atrocities against mankind.

And I want to invite you to consider if you will be one of those men.

I hope you will be.

For me, personally, that's a mark of Manliness that you're willing and able.

To protect yourself and your family and people who cannot protect themselves.

And in some cases will not.

I get it.

There are incredibly passive people and in some instances, that's quite admirable.

I understand that I get that there are people who just want to have of love and kindness and compassion.

I get that I can even admire it and respect that I can understand it.

But many of us need to be Warriors as well as poets and philosophers.

And if we go with the archetype of the King, right in my mind, the king is a poet and a philosopher and a warrior.

He can think he can teach And he can fight because when there's a time to fight, you have to be able to fight, you have to be willing and able and that comes with training and preparation and and knowing your stuff.

And again, I just have to keep emphasizing, some people will not understand or respond to anything else but violence If they live by the sword, if that is their language.

If they're so blinded by Rage or hatred or ignorance that they only understand violence.

And again, I believe this is is his rare and it's only a few people.

But there are those people who do not understand anything else, and they will bring violence and the threat of death to your doorstep.

So to speak or bring it to you and your family and you need to be Respond.

And again, I just want to re-emphasize this.

There are tyrants and Bullies out there and criminals and Thugs and trash bags, who will bring that fight to you or the people around you, or you might be out on vacation or doing your thing.

And, and somebody brings that threat I hope you'll be a warrior and be willing to protect and it really good men and really dangerous, good men.

Are the only ones that will keep evil at Bay that will force those Punk's back into the hole.

They crawled out of and I want, you think about that really like, consider that how if there aren't truly good, men who are truly dangerous, then those tyrants and dictators and Bullies, whether it be massive governments or a little neighborhood gangs or just punks, they're going to take advantage of people, they're going to harm people, they're going to do things that they're going to, they have no, no, moral compass, they do whatever they feel like doing and they will run all over people and commit every kind of crime and atrocity and the only thing that stops them Is a good dangerous man, stopping them.

So there was this, there was this article recently in the news and it is sparked us and I wanted to share it with you because it's so relevant.

It's interesting right now, obviously, this was on the news, I don't know.

All the exact details, I don't speak Russian, so I'm reading the English translation that was on CNN and it was the the they called him.

The ex-president of Russia and I don't know how to pronounce his name correctly, but it's Medvedev immediate.

Is there, I don't know how to say it, but he was talking about how in response to Russian aggression in Ukraine, you know, thus far the US and the Western world has put out, strong statements of disapproval.

Do you think they really care about strong public statements of disapproval really?

Does it seem to be affecting them?

You guys, that's akin to like, a bit less time thinking about this and I'm starting my wife like, okay, let's let's imagine.

Imagine with me gentlemen, your you are an observer of the playground at an elementary school and a bunch of big kids.

Big mean bug.

Please come over and just start beating the tar out of one, kid, one week kid, and they're just wailing on him.

Total disadvantage.

And the teachers are there and the principles there and they're standing there and and perhaps we put a school officer there who has the power to stop this and they're all standing there saying out loud so everyone can hear.

We strongly disapprove of what you're doing.

Those are our strong statements, we don't like it.

That's not nice what you're doing and they're expecting their words to have some kind of effect on bullies who really could give a crap about your words.

So then the next step, they put these sanctions in place, right?

And and we'll get into this in a second.

Don't misunderstand me.

We should use words.

Absolutely, we should use words.

We should do everything in our power to violence is a last resort.

But I guess what I'm saying is it has to be a resort.

You can't just assume that everything else will work and you'll never get to that.

It has to be one of the tools in your toolbox.

It has to be one of the weapons in your Your Arsenal, right?

And we'll get into words and power and, and maybe the things you say, would be enough and maybe the threat of force or the threat of violence would be enough.

But in this instance, they they say well, okay, we're going to do some sanctions now.

This is the the translated response of the the ex-president his response to the sanctions is this is like it's sad and it's Affable, this is what he said.

He said, I believe it is obvious to intelligent, people sanctions are a myth, a threat, a figure of speech.

I am fundamentally indifferent to these widely publicized restrictions of Rights abroad.

Wow.

Actually, I want to thank the guy for publicly saying, your words are idle and empty, and meaningless, and I am indifferent to your sanctions.

Like, do you think we care?

Right.

Do you think these people who go and brutally attack another Nation?

Do you think they care?

And they didn't see this coming.

They weren't expecting it.

Do you think somebody who's willing to just robbed and beat and rape and plunder?

Do you think they give a crap about you coming up and saying strongly?

I really disapprove of what you're doing.

If someone who's willing to commit an atrocity, has the psychological and moral depravity to commit.

The ACT, do you think they're worried about what you might say?

right, or the threat of taking away some of their rights and privileges Oh yes, keep going.

He says, quote, the reason for the sanctions is this it is political impotence.

Oh man, he called it, what it is.

Right back to their faces.

Your sanctions are political impotence.

He continues arising from the inability to change.

Russia's course.

He's is totally calling it out.

You're impotent.

You can't stop it.

You can't change their course.

And so you try to throw out some sanctions and some strong statements also, he says a hope to make up for the shameful decisions, like the Cowardly flight from Afghanistan.

And and my words.

Now, I promise the world is watching.

Tyrants, and bullies and dictators, and despots, they are all watching and they're constantly watching.

They're watching at a local level to see how you protect your family neighborhood and they're watching at a at a global level to see if there are good dangerous men who will step up and stop them.

And when they see cowardice when they see impotence they jump out and take advantage of it.

That's what bullies do.

You know, this already right, that's exactly what bullies do.

They're opportunists, they're looking for someone who looks weak, who looks vulnerable and they look around.

They're paying attention.

I grew up in a streets man and we've traveled all over the world to some really dangerous places and and I'm observant, I'm watching this all the time because I was on the streets for years, I understood how they work and how they think and I can I could pick it up.

I can spot it whenever we're traveling in, where I can see it coming and I can think of Civic instances where we were in different nations and and I could just see.

I could literally point it out to my kids, mouth kids, like those guys are spotting.

It's right there, they're scoping this out to see.

They're looking for people who look vulnerable or opportunities where they can take advantage of people and they're paying attention, they're looking around.

Like are there any cops?

Is there anyone here?

That's that's going to defend.

These people are defend themselves and then they wait until there are no police force around.

And there's no one who would step up and be a man and defend the people.

And then they look for the person that looks vulnerable or week and then they take advantage of them.

That's exactly looking for and so happens at a global level and local level there watching you.

They're watching your family, they're watching your neighborhood, they're seeing if you're, if you're tough and and okay, this happens even in a school situation, it happens in a work situation and a community situation, they're always bullies.

Maybe it's not leading to violence or theft but taking advantage.

Give you the taking advantage of you at work in a work situation whether it's some kind of work competition inside the business or some kind of competition outside the business.

People are always and this is a tragedy and again I'm an optimist here, I believe in the goodness of humanity but there are a few people who are always looking for opportunities to take advantage of others.

Right?

Just to do wrong or in a sense, maybe they're thinking is messed where they just think, hey, if there's an opportunity here to to get and an advantage for myself, I'm going to take it and I've heard people even articulate that like that, they think it's Justified if they can get away with it and it's Justified, I've literally heard people say that, Good people.

But their psychology there their conclusions and maybe that maybe they know better, right?

A lot of people who do do wrong, they don't know any better.

They were raised in horrible situations and they were never taught that they just it's a survival mode.

It's the they grew up in the jungle, it was kill or be killed.

But all of that aside.

There are people who take advantage of you.

And so if they sense that you are weak, they will push you around.

Out.

And that's in every kind of situation, like let that sink in like, where might this apply?

Even in your own home?

There's the push boundaries and and and try to take advantage of weaknesses.

And now there's not may not be with malice like in your own home right there.

Just trying to like man if I keep pushing on dad because he's such a softy, like I get eat doughnuts every day.

I don't have to do dinner.

I get to watch movies and play my game because all I got to do is push a little bit.

He just push over, right?

So there's, there's no real.

Malice are not trying to hurt or harm anyone but they'll push you around.

And, and people push you around all over the place, it's just nature.

Just this the system of hierarchy.

And so we have to have a backbone.

And in some instances gentleman, a backbone in the balls enough to stand up especially to tyrants and Bullies but they are looking for opportunities to take advantage.

They're looking for weakness, cowardice impotence and he called it out and he noticed the Cowardly flight from Afghanistan as its quoted here.

Again, I didn't translate this.

I'm just reading the English translation that's in the news.

But like whatever was actually said, somebody wrote this and is illustrating the point that others are noticing, is like, yeah, we're watching.

And what about the other big big bullies and tyrants around the world that are seeing hey man?

Let's see, let's see if the us or any of these other Western countries are have the backbone enough to stand up against tyrants and Bullies a man, if they don't, that's our green light, that's our green light to go.

And many people believe that China has That well, they do they and they've said it.

Blatantly they have their eye on invading Taiwan and getting it back and they've threatened to.

I read this translation of a species said, they will crush the head of anyone who tries to get in their way.

Hmm, all right, he goes on.

He so, so this this ex-president currently serves as the deputy chairman of the security Council, he says these amazing prohibitions.

Speaking of the sanctions will Change nothing.

Of course, even the ignorant people at the state department, know this, Oh man, he's is calling it out.

He says the military operation, he doesn't call it a war and invasion of Ukraine.

He said the military operation referring to what they're doing in.

Ukraine will be conducted in full until all the objectives of the president of Russia has set out our achieved, no more and no less as it was in a similar situation in 2008, which they invaded the country.

Georgia.

So here's this ex-president calling it for what it is saying.

Yeah, you're you're cowards and you're impotent and your idle threats mean nothing and you're strong statements of disapproval.

Don't stop anybody.

Right?

And even the sanctions and stopping that, they don't care.

So I Circle back again.

I'm just going to keep saying this and keep emphasizing this only good men who are dangerous.

Men can stop true bullies and tyrants who are just filled with malice and darkness and evil.

When they when they care about nothing else but taking advantage of others for their own advantage.

There.

They have to answer with with violence now.

Lest you think I'm looking for fighting and always just wanting to turn to violence again?

Violence, should be the last resort.

I can't emphasize that enough so we start with we start with language right?

And and we hope we hope that negotiations will work and they often have I've been in dangerous situations where I talked myself out of it and then I'm glad I was able to do that because we would have been a world in trouble.

There was once a situation that many of you have heard the story of theirs, Situation in a foreign country where about 30 men, many of them armed with these huge clubs around my van with my family, they were slamming the side of my van and just scream, yell their nose.

It was intense and getting out in fighting that large of a group and they blocked off the roadways with nails and tires.

And like, we were trapped, and they were writing, the only way out of there was was man, we could have been real fight, but it got real real ugly, right?

And my children know how to fight.

So we would put up a fight, but the best situation to talk yourself out on, that's why I did.

So for about 30 minutes, we just apologize to him how sorry we were just really want to trouble a little children and my wives is and we were able to get out of it to talk her way out of it.

There's been many other situations, so learn how to talk your way out of it and again roll with me here on this whole Spectrum, right?

It's not just violence situations where you're being threatened with a weapon but it's just in everyday situations of life for like Learn how to stand your ground.

Effectively again, don't go looking for any kind of fine don't go don't go picking fights verbally or physically with other.

Don't go looking for arguments.

But if you are thoughtful and educated and prepared and articulate then then there are quote fights at all levels where you're standing for four principles and practices.

And And trying to do what's right in every situation.

So, Yes.

Cultivate intellectual and verbal competence.

Right.

Learn how to win with words, how to persuade with paragraphs, how to influence with intelligence, learn how to speak well, learn how to write.

Well, many of you could be very dangerous with your words.

Because you can, you can draft an idea, an argument, that moves people and I hope you do that.

That calls them into action, or stops them in their, in their shoes, right?

In their tracks.

With your words or your look, or your demeanor, or your posture, there's actually tons of research on this the way you carry yourself, people read it immediately and and bullies, and people looking to take advantage of the looking for weakness or cowardice, or impotence, they can read it is.

There's this instinctual thing.

There's actually some science behind this that it's just in nature, it's instinctual that we read people almost instantaneously and subconsciously weary people too.

Laughs.

Like should I be where of this person or can I take advantage of this person?

Even if you're a good person you know taking advantage you realize okay there I have power here or like Whoa, Don't Mess with that guy and I want to invite you gentlemen to be that guy.

Not that you're a jerk.

Not that you become the bullier the Tyrant or the dictator especially do not do that in your own home.

Or in your business, they'll be the dictator.

Don't be the Tyrant, don't be the bully.

You don't have to be mean to and you don't have to be scary.

You actually want to be respected.

You have to earn respect.

You want to earn Authority.

So don't don't lean into your title or your position, or your badge, or your uniform, or whatever else is, how much money you have or any of that come back to character and integrity?

That you're respected.

And and you're tough, you're really good and really dangerous in the good sense.

That people know, like, Mandy and this is, this is what I want.

I want people to know that I'm approachable.

I'm a very nice guy.

I'm a very good guy but do not mess with me.

Don't cross me.

Do not try to take advantage of me.

Let's let's be men like that.

What if there were more men like that in the world?

What if every man true man was that way that he walked around and he had a big heart and a sharp intellect and a bright mind but man do Not mess with him.

You try to cross them.

We try to push him around, you try to take advantage of him or his family.

Try to bring any threat or violence, you will pay for that.

Right?

And if you bring the threat of death, you will pay for it with your life.

I genuinely hope you never have to take another person's life.

I really do.

But man if somebody brings the threat of death to you your family and brings it to your doorstep, you better be ready to answer any kind.

Because some people won't stop, otherwise.

So yes, use your words.

Like learn to articulate, learn to think learn to carry yourself with strength.

Sometimes you just have to show show a threat of force and people back down.

I've seen this and I've experienced myself a bullies back right down.

And she's like, no, man, I'm not messing with you.

I was in a, in the, I was leading a humanitarian Expedition one.

Eight in a foreign land and I was running an errand and it happened to be late at night and I took a shortcut through a dark alley.

And, and there was two dudes and they were totally on drugs, man.

They saw me and they're like, oh, yeah, there's this, there's white boy, when take advantage of them, they turn around, they can't he whistled his buddy like what back and they turn around and they turn around like ready to just robbed me.

And I reached in my pocket and pulled out my knife, gotten a fighting stance.

I was like, let's go suckers and man, they were not expecting that.

They thought they were just going to build his, take whatever they wanted, and they were not happy about it.

But man, they backed away and took off.

Like, it's slunk into the Shadows, like the Slime, they were because I was like, nope, let's go.

You're not taking anything.

I'm gonna take you out.

If you come with me, And you know I should have been there and I should have been with somebody but a show of strength and force will put them in a stop in their tracks.

So if the fight comes to my doorstep, you better believe that I'm going to come out with strength and strategy, right?

But the challenge is if you have become soft with semantics, meaning that your own Which is soft or in the ridiculous case of some societal things that are going on right now.

People are acting like Words said to them are acts of violence, even coming down to which pronoun, you happen to use, if we get to a place where we're so weak and so soft and offended.

And we think Quote inappropriate pronoun is an act of violence.

What's going to happen when that person gets smashed in the face with a hard object by someone who's a real Tyrant who actually brings violence Then soft even inadvertently.

Misspoken words won't seem like acts of violence anymore.

Will they?

And that's something we have to have a reality check here, we have to change our perspective and and get clear about real violence and real bullies and real tyrants.

And this, this pretended.

Like sensitivity thinking, we're going around and being so fragile to everything around us.

Don't get caught up in that.

And to you gentlemen, I'm invite you to rise above even harsh criticism and mean things that people might say or do if you allow yourself to be so sensitive.

Two Petty meanness that it rattles you mentally, or emotionally, or spiritually, or even physically.

Some of you is just have to get a mean glance or a mean word from someone or a mean comment on your social media and it just cripples you you curl up in a ball either literally or figuratively.

You you're lying in the corner in the fetal position because someone said something mean, Or didn't say something nice.

We got to have more toughness than that.

Without becoming calloused.

I think that's an important distinction there have some tough skin without becoming calloused.

Little tricky, right?

You know, I've wait a minute, isn't tough skin?

Having a callus and you don't want to become a callous person or jaded and you want to be edgy you don't want to say, yeah, I'm ready to fight and then you go looking for fights.

You want to avoid fighting at all cost and I found that that men who are really trained.

And really competent and Powerful.

They don't have to fight because they know how to they rarely have to defend themselves because they can And it's obvious.

Isn't that insightful?

And Powerful.

And honestly, a little ironic.

Right, it's wind.

It's when you have the ability to bring the fight.

That you often don't have to.

Because you can and people notice that and they see it.

And then you use your intellect, you use strategy and strength.

To avoid situations and if they come to you you say okay look this is how this is going to go.

I'm giving you an out here.

And if you don't take it, you better buckle up because it's coming.

So what do you need to do gentlemen?

To up your strength and to up your strategy, to level up your mind body and spirit which is it's the whole that's the first trifecta in the triple Trifecta, right?

For the be, the man is that the first Trifecta is, mind body and spirit, and it starts there.

You have to get yourself mentally. spiritually at a soul level and physically, battle-ready You're in a place where you can't have anyone like this.

Ex-president calling you impotent and weak and cowardly. if you have the spiritual fortitude and the mental fortitude, and the physical fortitude to defend yourself, I love this stuff.

So honest questions.

Are, what are you going to do to cultivate that?

To cultivate your intellect and your verbal competence.

What do you do to cultivate your physical strength and stamina?

What you going to do to cultivate your emotional strength?

Some of us are compromised because of Emotional weakness.

That we just get rattled so easily we get distracted.

So easily we get we get overwhelmed, mentally or emotionally or spiritually so easily.

That makes us vulnerable that exposes our weakness.

You gotta have some emotional, grit and toughness.

So that you, you gotta overcome this, this hypersensitivity.

And that's easy.

When you can dismiss things that are just absurd.

Stop taking things.

So personally, Realize that some people are just going to be mean.

And in many of those cases as nothing to do with you, it's just about them and where they're at.

And it starts in small ways, but it goes into the big ways and you got to be old prepared, be able to be prepared and operate.

Clearly in all those situations and circumstances practice that.

I mean, this is what it's all about.

Start practicing.

And yeah, you know, initially it's not, it's not going to be perfect.

It's not going to be precise.

You're going to fumble and fail and flop.

That's how it goes with any first attempts.

So you might want to, you know, maybe you Maison comfortable working out or in the gym, you know what to do, but you got to get your body ready.

Maybe you realizing.

I got up my intellect.

Here you start diving into some some more challenging books and initially right now, I don't even know what this guy saying.

I found every I never heard or seen that vocabulary word and you feel, you're going to feel weak and you're going to feel dumb and you're going to feel uncomfortable and you're going to flounder and flop.

And look a little bit ridiculous.

This is this is one thing I'm gonna throw this in here.

Gentlemen, there's one thing that stops so many men from leveling up because they are so afraid of looking like failures.

They're afraid Try new things to get into things.

They, they know they ought to and they've wanted to but like, they don't want to look stupid.

So, I got, you know, I really want to do martial arts.

I want to learn shooting, or I want to get into debate.

So I can, you know, up my intellectual and my intellectual game and learn how to articulate.

I'm gonna start writing, I'm gonna start blogging or writing book.

I'm gonna try something.

They're so afraid of looking stupid or looking like failure.

They don't do it.

And so they actually it's self-sabotage.

They remain weak and incompetent.

And therefore impotent because they're afraid of how it will look as they're learning these new skills.

Just to be weeks ago.

I went and took this training and I knew I was going in as the least qualified.

I knew I was going in, they all had way way more experience than I did.

But that's where I want to be.

I want to be exercising with guys that are more fit than I am, they're stronger than I'm, I want to be training with people who are more competent than I am.

Surround myself with people that are better than me because it forces me to level up my game.

I'm going to learn so much more so much faster.

Instead of, you know, I'm going to protect my ego here, to make sure I don't look too stupid.

So I'm going to go surround myself with people that are kind of my level, or maybe even a little lower than me because it makes me feel good and look good, right?

That's just this is self-sabotage.

I'm not helping anyone.

If I really want to level up I'm going to get around people that are way better than I am.

I'm going to stretch myself and there's going to be some pain there.

There's going to be some pain and learning.

And it's going to be painting in progress.

Be willing to pay the price be willing to be vulnerable.

Be willing to look stupid and fumble and fail as your leveling up.

So, put together a plan gentleman and this is one of the things we covered very thoroughly in the, the be, the, man masterclass A Tribe.

That's really the essence of his.

Like, what are the tools and the resources?

What's the training that needs to happen to be a whole man?

So, holistic optimization, you'll hear me talk about that in every episode because you're trying to get your entire life dialed in so that you are physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, socially, competent and prepared.

Whoo, I love this stuff.

So create a plan for yourself.

If you are ready to level up, join the master class, but whatever you do.

Don't just do nothing.

Pretty plant right now.

So stop stop whatever you're doing, grab a piece of paper, open notes on your phone, jot down, a plan of things, you can start working on immediately.

It might be just okay, there's that book, I'm going to grab a book.

It go grab my book list.

I've awesome book list for men.

Just grab a free book list and just pick one book and start get an audio book.

Well, thank you by the way for listening to this like that's that's you're already doing the first step by listening, be sure to subscribe to the podcast.

Subscribe to the YouTube channel, follow me on social.

So again, I'm just going to keep trying to stuff.

This is, this is part of my life mission and work is just help men.

Be men, be really good and really dangerous and competent and prepared.

Share this share with other men.

Encourage other men to train together to read together to learn together to work together.

Raise Ray, please raise your children to be strong and T, Jake.

To cultivate that intellectual and spiritual and physical competence.

Raise your kids do not get your family on board, get your community board, get your friends in your your extended family on board.

If you are a leader, if you have a business or a team where you're at, be this lifting power be the tide.

Let's raise join this movement with me.

Let's raise this whole community of men who are strong and capable and competent and able, To be good enough.

And dangerous enough to keep malice and evil and rotten people in their holes.

That is how we can live a life.

That is peaceful and beautiful.

That's the you've heard me say is I'm going to keep saying this because I love it.

That's the model of of Krav Maga.

Right.

It's so that one may Walk In Peace So we learn how to be dangerous.

So that We and those around us may Walk In Peace.

So gentlemen, what are you going to begin doing and do consistently?

From here on out.

To be really good and really dangerous.

Be the man.