I’m sitting down to do a review of the modules right now since I need to break down some of the results I’ve been experiencing for myself, so I may as well start here.
Overall, this is showing up very strongly in my life. I came back from a latin america backpacking trip feeling “full” … I’d had enough sexual experiences, enough casual dating, and through listening to WDB the 2 months before starting Reforged, I healed some of the things that made me afraid of wanting a “real” relationship (basically a fear that whoever i marry i would divorce and therefore i shouldn’t want kids) and started reorienting myself towards wanting to find a wife, not just a girlfriend/sexual-partner.
WDB is already very internal, similar in “inwardness” to Reforged, but this thought process kicked into overdrive when I added in Reforged, and the WDB + Reforged combo created a major internal shift, led to a lot of recon, but when that recon cleared I felt amazing.
Now that I’m back in my home country, that feeling of “fullness” (enough random sex, enough partial relationships, enough wishywashy commitments and intentions from myself) that I decided I could be abstinent until October when I go back to live in Latin America for 6 months if I really wanted to do that.
NEVER in my life have I been abstinent willingly, nor wanted to. I judged nofap as forcing things. But with that combo, I feel like I want to build my life and put my sexual and romantic energy into my next relationship, and I want my next relationship to be extremely meaningful and intentionally built towards a future. I’m just NOT interested at all in hooking up with the girls I match with on Tinder or meet IRL if I’m not willing to date them long term.
I’m currently going on some dates with a girl I met on Tinder, talking about relationship stuff more seriously, and I see some huge commonalities with her, but also some big differences that might make long term not work, and until I resolve those and decide I fully want to be in a relationship with her, I do NOT want to have sex with her, because sex would create attachment that could cloud my judgement, create an enjoyment of the comfort/connection, and ultimately lead to relationship creep.
"No longer needing friction, audience, or external proof to know his own ground" means I no longer need to look for evidence that I’m attractive, that women like me, that I’m dateable, that I can pick up chicks, that women are responding to me… it feels like a shift where I feel more aligned with where I want to live (which city) and what kind of relationship I want to be able to create (having enough money so my partner doesn’t have to work at all) and not wanting to get into any emotional entanglements at all, either until I’m in that city and at that level financially, or until I find the person who wants to go on that journey with me.
Actual porn: haven’t watched it or thought about it much. I’ve pulled it up a couple of times, I think i watched it to “finish” once, but that was in a recon-state overall. Long term i see myself detaching from the overall need for sexual gratification. I think GLM/Stabilizer are really contributing here as well if I’m being totally honest, but, I see Reforged/GLM/Stabilizer as 3 sides of the same coin.
Other features
I was coming to this page to review some of the features, that ^ was as good a place to start as any.
Needed to read the copy because it’s the only title I’ve ever ran without first deep-dive studying the features.
My normal process before running a title is to write down every feature on paper so that I can internalize them and move them around in my head a little bit so I uinderstand what the real differentiators are and why I should run X and not Y.
With Reforged, I ran it without any copy, since none was released. So I’m doing that deep dive now, but, assessing results I’ve actually gotten so far to potentially help me understand my results better - so far they’re profound, but so alignment-centered and natural that they’re hard to identify exactly… which is the most obviously noticeable feature of them all. If “Tyrant + Divine Will” was an entire title, it would feel like Reforged. The ability to bring anything you desire into reality through intention and alignment and the power of your will.
When it comes to status/leadership/rank, and when it comes to the male-on-male competition that is prevelant in my industry, my mind is creating a helpful frame.
I am not “competing” with my coworkers to see who is the best. I am competing with them to see who can maintain the highest state of internal intensity.
THAT is what the status symbol of my industry is. I’m not trying to be better than you I’m trying to be more intense than you. That shows up as to who takes the most ownership over their department. Who is the most decisive. Who is the most capable.
THAT is what people are looking for when they have a brand new project that nobody knows how to complete, and they ask themselves “who would be the best person to figure this out.”
It’s the person that has displayed the most capacity for intensity that people trust to be the one to take ownership and get the thing solved no matter what.
This Intensity is a 100% internally measured metric that is displayed outwards into the world. You’re not chasing the external metrics. They come because you focus on the internal drive that makes them possible.
(this is an adaptation that Reforged helped me find based on MY industry/position, yours may be different, but the concept of intensity has roots in Nietzsche’s philosophy overall, which is the epicenter of modern day hustle-culture’s highest expression IMHO, so a version of it is likely compatible for your situation if you desire truly to be a “great” man, an ubermensch, a leader, or to generally “become legendary” which is the motto of subclub.)
Based on my feeling, this presence must not be mistaken for the presence of buddhism, which is lightly aware, awakened, and centered around the brahmivaharas (love, compassion, joy, freedom/equanimity)… the presence I feel on reforged is an awareness of one’s self and what one is doing to become an ubermensch, and to do those things with awareness, without reaction, without fear of success or failure. It is simply a present-moment focus on the qualities that need to be embodied to live the life that you feel best living in, and it’s a returning to that type of detached-goal-seeking stoicism tries to embody again and again and again.
The presence of what is real, instead of being present to the reactions and overreactions that make up the bulk of an unintegrated man’s striving.
Presence only towards the parts of you that are sharpest, most clear, most actionable. Presence on taking action towards those things and presence towards finding clarity around things that are unclear.
Features
Well damn I didn’t think that I would learn so much about Reforged just from reading the introductory copy, but that makes sense… I think that can summarize most of what the features are trying to explain in various ways.
Inner coronation explained well by the writing above in this post
Roots of Authority: 
The sovereign Body - building a relationship with my body through practicing flow/graceful movement
Words That Move - less able to discern my own voice changes, more able to identify speaking with certainty rather than confusion/hesitation/subconscious-submissiveness
The Listening King
I am experiencing an internal conflict around whether or not dating a girl i’ve been seeing would lead to me needing to sacrifice any of my goals or desires. If it would lead to ANY sacrifices, I would not engage in the relationship. There’s very little self-argument there. And I do not need the relationship. My vision is powerful and the right person who perfectly aligns with it will come, if I’m patient and open and build what I intend to build in my life, which I will.
In dating, this continual return allows me to emotionally connect deeply with people but without getting attached. I learn about myself through these connections, and it helps me identify what I really want in life and in a partner. I also connect with women in a way where I don’t make any promises or do any love bombing or make them feel gutted if I decide we’re not aligned. My “frame” is looking for very aligned people, being honest about that, and being honest about where we are/aren’t aligned, I explain that to them in a way that is clear my alignment is in their best interests as well. It’s very respectful.
The number has become completely unimportant, and what’s become crystal clear for me is that wealth is a tool to help me create what I want to create. A life where i can travel. A life where I can be the sole provider for my family. A life where I LOVE what I’m ambitiously working towards. A life where I’ve accomplished what I want to accomplish and can now “break the rules” that society put on me that serves them not myself.
Alongside Stabilizer and GLM these results are skyrocketing. I added in EOGST2 recently but haven’t seen a major shift yet, it’s very new.
LOOOOOOL I WROTE THIS 10,000 TIMES WITHOUT KNOWING ITS A WORD FOR WORD FEATURE.
Wow.
OK i guess there’s a layer past intensity. That’s the layer I’m on right now.
It’s an embodiment thing. I notice I’m not “performing” intensity for intensity’s sake but I AM cultivating my own inners sense of intensity towards what matters to me, and if I’m on a project, or on a team, bringing intensity to that. Not for someone else but for myself, which was the point I was making earlier. It’s not the pursuit of external metrics, it’s the pursuit of an inner intensity towards what I want that leads to the external metrics that leads to everything else.
I told the girl i was on a date with yesterday that I am extremely ambitious, and want to accomplish huge things, but I want to do so while working as little as possible. I want to set an aim for what I want in my life, specifically, and then get there as fast as possible while working as little as possible and get to the point where I create a life where I’m “ambitious” but feel like I’m not “working” much and get to spend as much time as possible learning things and wokring on things that are personally meaningful to me, not grinding, not hoarding money, not chasing success. Ultimately, the phase I’m in right now is a focus on building stability financially and the next level of respect in my career so I can be very good at what I want to be very good at, and then get very good at things that are more personally important to me and less financially motivated.
Lots to integrate there i guess.