Craig James

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Stop Justifying Mediocrity

Are you a Justifier? A Justifier is man who’s convinced himself he’s not satisfied with mediocrity, yet is cunningly adept at creating ways to justify doing all the things that mediocre men do. Do you say you want to build a lean, strong, aesthetic physique, but then use happy hours, weekends, parties, Groundhog Day, and […]

A Man and His Mission

It’s the holidays. For most of us, that means spending an inordinate amount of time with family members. For many men, family gatherings are to be dreaded. They don’t get along with certain family members, and their families aren’t supportive of how they’re living or the missions they’re pursuing. I have it pretty good in […]

10 Life Lessons for Living Out Your Masculinity

Today I turn 37, and with every successive birthday I take the opportunity to reflect on the past year of my life. Did I achieve what I set out to achieve? How has my life changed over the past year? What do I need to do to build on the successes from the last 12 […]

Married Red Pill Reinvention – Podcast with Adam Lane Smith

Swallowing the red pill changes a man’s life. A man takes the pill, swallows hard, and after years of living his life under false pretenses regarding the nature of women and how to best interact with them to achieve the outcomes he desires, he’s finally armed with the lens that allows him to view reality […]

Fortune Favors the Bold – Podcast With Nick Lowary

Fortune Favors the Bold with Nick Lowary

Fortune favors the bold. Unfortunately, boldness appears to be lost on men today. Boldness can be uncomfortable. It’s risky. But it can also be quite rewarding. Today’s man prefers comfort and predictability, even if it comes as the expense of mediocrity. He hasn’t tasted the fruit that’s harvested when his life is fertilized by being […]

Feminism Isn’t Christian, It’s Sin

“Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” Feminism is often compared to a disease, but it’s more insidious than that. It’s the embracing of a curse placed upon women by almighty God that goes all the way back to Adam and Eve’s original sin in the Garden of Eden. […]

The Flow State Formula: Deprivation, Deadlines and Deadlifts

Flow State Brain - Deprivation, Deadlines and Deadlifts

Inside of the Fraternity of Excellence (FoE) Hunter and I are currently leading the brothers through a series of challenges designed to bolster self confidence. As I’ve reflected on how my own self confidence has compounded since boyhood, it’s clear that few things have galvanized my confidence more than working through tasks with surgical precision. […]

Dealing With Haters In The Pursuit of Excellence

Hate is a comfort drug of choice for our mediocre contemporaries who are merely meandering through life instead of choosing to pursue masculine excellence. They consume hate wherever they can find it, chew it up and then spew it back out. It gives their lives meaning. Makes them feel something. It distracts them from their […]

The Suicide Solution – Part Four: Find Your Masculine Tribe

Men today are without a place to call their own, a place where they can be genuinely masculine. Since the sexual revolution began rapidly taking hold in society it seems that male-only spaces have been eradicated at an equally expeditious pace. The Boy Scouts was one of the final remaining vestiges of exclusive male camaraderie. […]

The Suicide Solution – Part Three: Finding Peace in Purpose

For a man whose life in the present lacks meaning and purpose, his future can only be viewed as a vast insufferable chasm of hopelessness and chaos from which he can never escape. With little perceived reason to look forward to the future, and every reason to detest its inevitable arrival, the darkness of depression […]

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