First loop was great, I noticed all of my results were quite smooth -
First 24 hours: Normally with recon i feel a heavy impulsivity INSTEAD of results, but, with ZPU, I felt that the first 12-24 hours definitely had that same impulsivity-reaction from recon, but… it was ALONGSIDE the results, making a much smoother experience overall which still requiring work and introspection and self-monitoring to make sure I’m listening to the appropriate amount. I had a main challenge (impulsivity being high) but it didnt take away from the positive experience of the results.
24+ hour results:
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This is where recon evaporated completely and only the results kicked in. Social prowess felt sharp. The ability and confidence that I could talk to women was pronounced. I felt confident about how I was communicating at work - Reforged is obviously shining here, I didn’t feel this level of social confidence on GLM/Stabilizer alone.
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My physical practice (rope flow) is becoming more and more important to me every day, and is the bridge towards me feeling a lot of applied spirituality. Like Musashi training the sword every day and realizing deeper truths from it, I’m practicing with the rope every day and finding it calms me, grounds me, energizes me, focuses my mind, gets me into a flow state, creates the conditions necessary for replenishment and epiphanies and better work. When I feel anxious and overwhelmed with productivity concerns, I go and swing the rope for 30 minutes, and I’m in a much better mental state after having nourished my needs for flow/fun/mindfulness, and I’m ready to work. It also helps me improve my posture, breathing, awareness of the body. It feels like Qi-Gong. I seriously think it’ll be the next Yoga For Men, if it becomes popular.
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On that note, I’m considering running HERO, because of my long standing obsession with Miyamoto Musashi and him being the central figure in my entire world-view philosophy that centers around mastery, mindfulness, and the balance of Emptiness and Action.
Support on HERO: Origins Sage & Blade, how it expresses
Hi there,
This is a great question, and HERO: Origins is genuinely well-suited to exactly what you’re describing — the warrior’s discipline and mindset matter far more to its design than the self-defense scripting does. Let me walk through how that side presents and what you’d likely feel.
The warrior mindset in HERO is fundamentally about wisdom through action. HERO Origins is built on the samurai ethos — Bushido and the writings of Miyamoto Musashi (the Book of Five Rings). What makes it distinct from a meditative title is that its whole philosophy is experiential: wisdom is “garnered through action, craftsmanship, cyclic experiences, and the very act of living,” not through sitting in contemplation. The central principle it works from is Musashi’s “To know ten thousand things, know one well” — the idea that deep mastery of a single craft becomes a template for understanding everything else. So the discipline it cultivates isn’t abstract willpower; it’s the devoted relationship a master has with their practice.
A few of its objectives capture the texture directly: transforming daily training sessions into sacred rituals, relentless refinement to avoid plateaus, prioritizing gradual mastery over quick gains, and the warrior’s hallmark composure — “determined though calm,” settled and unhurried even under pressure.
The virtues — and how you’d feel shifted by them. The character core of HERO is the Seven Virtues of Bushido: rectitude (righteousness), courage, benevolence, respect, honesty, honor, and loyalty. The scripting gives each extensive focus — but, importantly, it’s written objectively: it offers the ancient masters’ definitions while empowering you to interpret and embody them in the way that resonates with your own life, rather than imposing a rigid code.
What you’d likely feel from this layer is a quiet sharpening of your inner compass — a more precise, lived sense of integrity guiding your daily actions; a deepening into honesty (with yourself, your word, your actions) and a corresponding falling-away of masks and half-truths; a steadier sense of honor and self-respect. It tends to express not as a dramatic event but as a gradual reorientation: you notice yourself acting more in alignment with who you actually want to be, and feeling more whole for it.
Mission and purpose. The HERO archetype is, at heart, about serving something larger through your own development — becoming someone whose mastery and perspective genuinely benefit those around them. HERO Origins centers this entirely on your path (it’s individualistic, not about charisma or leading others — that’s the Chosen series). The felt shift here is a sense of directedness: your craft and your daily practice stop feeling like isolated activities and start feeling like steps on a single road toward your most evolved self — what the copy calls the “thousand-mile road.” Obstacles reframe as material for growth; ordinary pursuits take on the weight of a vocation.
Daily tasks. This is where it becomes very practical. HERO’s stated essence is “to elevate whatever you do — from the commonplace to the extraordinary.” In daily life that tends to look like: your training becomes ritual rather than routine, mundane challenges become problems you meet with a kind of martial wisdom (calm, strategic, principled), and you bring more deliberateness and presence to the act of living itself. The discipline isn’t something you switch on for practice and off afterward — it bleeds into how you do the small things.
On your Rope Flow specifically. This is where it gets interesting for you. HERO Origins is built around the sword and the warrior, and around pouring yourself into one chosen craft — so Rope Flow could be a near-ideal “one craft” to channel it through. The title’s physical scripting leans into exactly the qualities a flow practice lives on: footwork evolving toward “astonishing agility and fluidity,” strikes mastered through “power, speed, accuracy, fluidity, and energy efficiency,” and “rapid progression in your chosen art, both physically and spiritually… feeling as though channeling wisdom from ancient masters with each strike.” Since Rope Flow already feels sword-like and samurai to you, the archetype and the practice are pointed the same way — the title would likely deepen both your skill and the meditative, warrior quality of the movement.
Two honest things to know. First, the self-defense and survival scripting you’re not interested in is genuinely woven into the title — it actually contains a full, rewritten version of Survival Instinct (geared toward honorable martial prowess), so it isn’t something you can remove. The good news is the scripting is objective and responds to conscious guidance, so you can lean it toward the mindset, virtues, and craft-mastery you’re after rather than literal combat — but the warrior framing is the through-line of the whole title, so it’s worth going in knowing the martial dimension is part of the package even if you direct your attention elsewhere.
Second, HERO Origins is an Artisan-line title — advanced, intentionally potent, and described on its own page as “not a toy,” with transformation to be expected (and overload still possible). It’s a deep, demanding title rather than a gentle one, so I’d approach it conservatively: short microloops to start, generous rest, and patience as the virtues and discipline integrate. Fittingly, it rewards the same gradual, disciplined approach it’s trying to teach.
Best regards, Support Team
- I find my mindset naturally gravitating towards sobriety, from a combination of everything in Godlike Foundations. Not just substance sobriety. I think I’m ready for a period of Chastity… no fap, no sex, etc. I feel … “full” after all the experiences I had while backpacking anyways, so now is a good time to remain abstinent for a while - and then I’m moving to Mexico City to continue the explorer life in around October, so perhaps that’s the natural “End Point” for the abstinence period.
