Roosh Valizadeh

Daryush "Roosh" Valizadeh created ROK in October 2012. You can visit his blog at RooshV.com or follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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40 Responses

  2. UnreconstructedConfederate

    My will wants to watch the video, my reality says I can’t because I have Stone Age Internet.

    • porcer34

      The effects of expending your will may not always be fruitful

      The subtitle was quite accurate.

  3. Sgt POG

    I suppose there’s good money in all this self help/mindset stuff. Kids these days don’t have contact sports, religion, dads, or military service. Someone’s gotta mentor and encourage them to be masculine I guess.

    • UnreconstructedConfederate

      They need all the help they can get,I can’t believe girls with blue hair get any attention from boys and how do boys with plugz make it through school without getting a daily wedgie?

    • AlexDeLaMelle

      I would have given a lot to hear this sort of stuff ten years ago when the whole puberty thing was in full swing. Out of that list I had contact sports but that’s about it.
      Roosh is helping a lot of young men.

    • glovea

      Having to go out of your way to practice contact sports is a bonus lesson itself.

  4. Michael Pags

    I humbly disagree. I am a medical doctor and nothing in my life has ever required as much will as attaining that title. Yet now that I now longer invest any will into it I am still a medical doctor. Furthermore, it seems that the more time that goes by the wiser I become. It’s as if through my education I started a process in my mind (sort of like winding up a toy) that at some point just took on a life of its own and no longer requires a constant exercise of the will to maintain. However, other than being a doctor, I can not think of anything else for which this is the case

    • MickeyBigD's

      “..other than being a doctor, I can not think of anything else for which this is the case”

      Seems like all you doctors become afflicted with this type of thinking upon earning that paper.

        • Michael Pags

          You say “seems like all you doctors become afflicted” and then you call ME presumptuous! Ha! What am I presuming? That you’re not a doctor and you’ll never be one and you don’t know enough doctors personally to make a comment about all doctors??

    • Sir Lee

      your degree, like any other is similar to writing a book, as Roosh Mentioned.

      Different than the will to create large muscles -which then have to be maintained, or they atrophy — but not completely.

      However, your degree, and mine, require some maintenance…

      • Michael Pags

        Degrees and licenses and practices require maintenance, knowledge and experience does not. Imagine if we just regressed back into being ignorant because we stopped reading – doesn’t happen

        • bem

          Sure the knowledge and experience remains, but the capacity to increase either will dull without continuous maintenance.

        • glovea

          Following my point above, even practical knowledge can become obsolete if we don’t review it often enough.

      • glovea

        As I see it, a book is a photograph of the perspectives the author had while writing it.

        It does not atrophy because it is a memento, which can be useful to others. However the perspectives of the author can atrophy as a
        matter of fact.

        In the same vein, someone can develop large muscles and have a photograph of them taken. Though I can see where you are coming from.

        That being said, there are ways and ways of developing large muscles and some produce results which stay with you much longer than others.

    • MUltan

      “Yet now that I now longer invest any will into it I am still a medical doctor.”

      You’ll find that keeping your license requires ever more effort, BS continuing education requirements every year, recertification if you switch states, applications for hospital privileges that get to be book-length as you have to get original references from every place you practiced for even a day, new requirements for specialties as when fellowships were added to the old residencies.

      • Michael Pags

        Degrees and licenses and practices require maintenance, knowledge and experience does not. Imagine if we just regressed back into being ignorant because we stopped reading – doesn’t happen. I don’t become uneducated or a non-physician because I stop working on my skills or knowledge. Doesn’t work that way

        • MUltan

          True, but the world doesn’t care what anybody actually knows – shoot, I have read thousands of technical books, nobody cares about actual education, only what your official credentials are, and the requirements change. The higher you get and the longer you stay on top, the bigger the difficulty in staying in practice, especially for the hospital-based physicians.

          Even if you do keep your knowledge and your license to use it, its value may decline. AI systems are rapidly becoming better than most specialists at every sort of diagnosis, the relative worth of the credentials is falling while their cost is going up, bankrupting and killing tens or even hundreds of thousands a year to feed the obsolete way of doing things, so at some point there will be a lowering of the legal barriers protecting the profession and the whole medical industry and M.D. degrees will be worth quite a bit less.

    • bem

      Doesn’t the endless discipline of practice and continuing education count as continued willpower? Of course the most energy is expended in getting started, but the motion must still be maintained. I doubt you get by on ‘autopilot’.

      • Michael Pags

        Degrees and licenses and practices require maintenance, knowledge and experience does not. Imagine if we just regressed back into being ignorant because we stopped reading – doesn’t happen

      • glovea

        I think yes and no.

        “the most energy is expended in getting started”

        That’s true, but after some time doing whatever some degree of effficiency is accrued and the whole thing can turn into butter and potatoes.

        At that moment one is apt to regard the activity as a feel-good pastime without improving results, hence maintaining motion but only in appearance.

        It takes effort to do you what you are referring to, as it means denying oneself the comfort and pride of thinking “I’m so good at this”.

  5. jammyjaybird

    The worst stories are the ones where the main character 1) doesn’t know what he wants, and 2) lacks the willpower to achieve it.

    Lesson: Willpower is truly everything.

  6. Ender

    Some call it willpower, I call it intent. If I intend for something then everything internal and external falls in line. The intent must be realistic and not delusional incompetence. There is no need to maintain intent as the die is cast. Willpower seems a pointless struggle against yourself over something not absolute on.

  7. UnreconstructedConfederate

    I didn’t check and am at peace with myself oohhhmm.

  8. J. Hue

    I would say that having the will to achieve a goal would require some effort. Keep doing it until it becomes a habit and it becomes almost effortless (at least in your own mind). That is where you maintain it. You will get the temporary satisfaction, but that fades and gets old. That same thing now gives you no satisfaction because you mentally changed. On to something else better.

    It’s a relentless pursuit.

  10. Josh Franken

    Roosh, when are you going to become a hermit for 5 years and disappear? Not that I want you too, but you are definitely going down the path of becoming some sort of philosophical guru. You are even starting to look the part. I think you are more like, “Return of Priesthood” than return of kings. Lots of readers have commented on you seeming to go through spiritual changes currently. You are clearly on a search for, “happiness” or “contentment” or maybe even you’ll decide later “enlightenment” or connection to the “universe” or “god.”

    I fully expect you to quit all at some point, live off of nothing and then come back later with a totally new perspective again.

  12. MCGOO

    We have to get the females in the west to align with their feminine energies. They must be pointed in that direction. Many can no longer be forcibly lifted or rolled into alignment. But their eyelids can be easily pried open and the feminine flux energy fields will rotate them feet first like big iron filings on smooth glass. Then they will float like clouds of light feathers in the feminine direction once their will which contains no mass, only energy, answers to its valent call. Annd THE DICK will rise high and mighty like the north pole!

    Hail the patriarchy!

  13. Twisted Root

    Get system orientated rather than goal orientated.
    Still have goals, but realise contentment comes from the journey.

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