Beyond the Controversies: 5 Mind-Bending Andrew Tate Lessons That WILL Compel You to Rethink Everything!
I found Andrew Tate amidst his hyper-masculine/misogynistic rant (depending upon which side of the ‘Woke’ fence you are) and thought:
For a man sulking with a sour heartache, his words could be just as soothing as they are igniting.
I decided to ignore the spicy stuff and the Batman-with-his cape-on soundtrack-filled Youtube shorts and focused on the constitution that made the man that he is.
Political ideologies and gender debates aside, I found a bunch of lessons underneath his ranting persona that even his enemies don’t seem to disagree with. That’s because if they are any good, they probably live by these principles themselves.
1. Authenticity
What stemmed out of watching Tate for the first time was the unwavering force of his personality and his self-assurance. So in your face and straight-forward is his approach, your intellect’s doubting capacity has no place to go but inwards!
Lesson: In a world where people are all-too-eager to sell their souls, there’s probably very few attributes anyone will respect more in you than your authenticity.
Being authentic is being real.
Being authentic is telling your friend to shut up with his bullshitting rather than endure it just because he’s a friend.
Being authentic is admitting your fear yet refusing to bob your head like little Noddy every time you’re in presence of someone you’re a little apprehended by.
Being authentic is telling a beautiful girl you meet for the first time you don’t like people smoking ‘cause it’s a dumb habit, while she holds a burning cigarette in her hand.
2. From Past Karma to Future Karma: ‘Every Word That Comes Out of Your Mouth is Self-Hypnosis’
As a student of philosophy and trying too hard to lean towards the Sam Harris’ side of the Free Will-Determinism debate, I’d often undermined any will that humans possessed.
Probably the best description I found on the issue has been given by American musician turned Yoga instructor Raghunath Cappo on The Joe Rogan Experience, when he defined human free will as the ability to get up and change seats on a plane destined to land wherever the hell it is bound to.
It is a solid metaphor.
And like all metaphors, that little change of location can be interpreted in various ways.
Even though our actions may seem slightly determined by the environment and the subconscious, they are also ultra-vibrant seeds of future karma. Human choice may seem narrow at times.
It’s a choice, nonetheless, is all that Lord Tate says.
Say ‘I Am Strong’ for five minutes like you mean it and your physiology changes.
Clean up your work desk and your mind gets uncluttered.
Karma in, karma out.
3. Embracing Pain
Another cardinal mistake people often make is rampaging on a never-ending quest for eternal spiritual happiness and 24-hour bliss.
However, according to Hinduism, our intelligence levels have reached our present state as a result of karmic deeds following up multiple lifetimes. There is only so much it can improve over the course of a lifetime. In Tate’s own words, “God has his favorites!”
And if you’re bound for saint-like mindfulness and zero conflict, you’d probably get there. But if you’ve been chasing clouds and tripping over pebbles for years, this path is not for you.
Lesson: Embrace the conflict. Embrace the pain.
‘The flavor of life is pain…’, says Tate while talking to prominent psychologist David Sutcliffe and refusing to get psychoanalyzed towards anything remotely close to childhood trauma (This resistance itself, by the way, is a valid reflection of his personality),
‘… and I’m going to have all of it!’, he finishes his point.
4. The Only Way Out for A Hyper Analytical Mind
Let’s face it. Some of us are obsessive. We overthink and overanalyze.
Probably, analyze the analysis itself sometimes. However, there’s only one place all of it is bound towards (if you can’t tap it somehow in a fictional labyrinth of Pynchon-esque proportions): Somewhere deep inside your own mind while outer reality falls into pieces.
What we can do instead is turn the direction of that obsession outwards: towards skills. Incessant, uninhibited work and craftsmanship.
That’s how both great artists and millionaires are made. Obsession focused away from self-doubt.
And maybe will come a time when we’ll have enough organic satisfaction to lay down our analytical sword whenever we want.
But until then, there are only two options: War within or war without.
Choose wisely.
5. How Real is Your Trauma/Therapy?
What happens when we dwell on trauma?
What happens when we dwell on scar tissue with an Obsidian knife?
Blood comes out, the wound gets deeper.
Intellect is a knife. And hence, probably the wrong instrument for any kind of therapeutical success.
If we live in a good house, have food to eat and relations to care about, there is only one repressed motivation for trauma and therapy:
Identity.
Poor me syndrome.
Once we realize this, really realize this, there’s only one way left to go. The other way is an inevitable highway to hell.
Have You Been Unable to Ignore Tate?
Love and hate are two sides of the same coin.
And if the answer to the question above is a yes (albeit a little unwillingly), there could be something about him that you apologetically like or vehemently dislike in yourself!
Beneath the Bugatti-riding, the peacocking, and the pretty girls,
What is it that has possibly stuck a chord? Or hit a touchy nerve?
