Welcome back to another edition of the formula.

In today's issue, you'll learn:

• Quote of the day

• The high testosterone personality

• 5 traits of high testosterone men (using scientifically-backed studies)

If you struggle with any form of confidence, insecurity or self esteem issue. This one is for you.

Read time: 5 minutes.

Long than usual, I know. But it’s packed full of quality insights that I know you’ll appreciate.

Let's dive in.

Quote of The Day

Victim mentality = rejection is awful. I hate it. I feel so bad. My life is shit. I am going to cry. Why is life always out to get me?

Growth mentality = rejection is just redirection. I am capable of overcoming anything. I will achieve anything I put my mind to. No matter what life throws at me, I know I must always keep moving forward.

The High Testosterone Personality: What are the traits of high testosterone?

Testosterone is the fundamental factor for the admirable manly traits that are portrayed by men.

For example:

• Daniel Craig in James Bond

• Matt Damon in the Jason Bourne sequel

• Jason Statham in the Terminator sequel

Common traits that differentiate their characters and make them known as “masculine mavericks” include:

• Calm

• Collected

• Assertive

• Focused

• Creative

• Structured

• Smart

• Responsible

• Protective

• Respected

Over the past couple of decades, the media (and some research) has tried to portray high-testosterone men as:

• Aggressive

• Dominant

• Rebellious

• Trouble makers

• Bullies

• Selfish

• Unrighteous

Linking this behaviour to psychopaths, serial killers, inmates and so on.

You must reject this.

There is an on-going deliberate effort to quash the masculine spirit right now.

As to why, the reasons remain unclear.

But, it’s safe to say that everything that is being projected onto us by mainstream media paints a corrupted view of traditional high testosterone and masculinity.

It’s not toxic. In fact, it’s necessary now more than ever.

Although not the only part, high testosterone clearly plays a vital role in men thriving and being able to foster pro-active, strong traits so we can better serve ourselves and more importantly, add value to the society around us.

In last week’s newsletter, you will have read about my own mental struggle going from low testosterone to a high testosterone state (and how that affected my personality).

Well, in today’s edition, we’re going to dig deeper into the science that supports high testosterone and its positive links with its impacts on personality.

Ready? Let’s go⬇️

Testosterone and Assertiveness

Testosterone is shown to increase assertiveness and self-perspective (meaning you think well of yourself) and reduces fear, intimidation and anxiety.

However, these benefits only occur in the presence of low cortisol (which is a stress hormone).

When cortisol is high along with high testosterone, it may actually decrease dominance and in turn, result in submission and lower status.

• Have you ever needed to make an important phone call?

• Talk to a beautiful woman?

• Confront someone or ask for a promotion and didn’t feel very confident and assertive?

What’s been interesting to uncover is that although feeling a bit anxious is normal.

Testosterone actually plays a key role in lowering anxiety and is effective in promoting assertiveness.

Most people tend to only trust and respect confident and assertive individuals, not fearful and low-confident ones.

High testosterone combined with elevated GABA (a calming neurotransmitter) and dopamine (feel-good hormone) can completely abolish anxiety.

Coincidently, testosterone can actually increase the synthesis of dopamine and works synergistically with GABA.

In theory, this means raising testosterone will help with staying calm and collected along with improving our tolerance towards stress and anxiety.

Testosterone and Staying Calm.

Interestingly, testosterone has been shown to promote a calm demeanour and makes it easier for us to stay calm and controlled so we don’t do foolish things.

Testosterone is also thought to promote impulsivity and risk taking.

But what might surprise you is that high testosterone doesn’t necessarily mean men have more risky behaviour than men with lower testosterone.

The hormones that better predict instability and poorer risk taking decisions are actually more closely linked towards stress hormones like cortisol and catecholamines (noradrenaline and adrenaline).

The data suggests men with higher testosterone weigh the positives and negatives of a decision very rapidly and then make a calculated decision, which to others may then seem like a risky decision.

Plus, men with higher testosterone are more likely to reject time pressure offers, which shows that testosterone makes you cooler in decision-making.

As a general rule, if you ever feel pressured to make a financial decision in a hurry, don’t do it.

You might have a little denial-remorse but soon after you’ll be very happy you said no.

On the flip side, low testosterone and high cortisol promote risk-taking behaviour. This study puts it nicely:

“heightened secretion of cortisol: and the effects this might have on anxiety, risk-perception etc could easily be translated into an increased tendency for herding behaviour, and hence market destabilization.”

Now, if you’re thinking to yourself:

“Sometimes you got to take a leap of faith and make a risky decision to get a good deal.”

You are right.

It’s low testosterone and low dopamine that create the “want to play it safe” behaviour and not take the necessary risks to excel in life.

Note there is a difference between random risk taking and calculated risk taking.

It’s worth highlighting, men with higher testosterone make more money than men with lower testosterone.

This makes sense and coincides with my own experience raising testosterone as I’ve found it so much easier to work harder for longer.

I now relish hard tasks and long bouts of work, as opposed, to shying away from or avoiding them.

Testosterone and Mental Function

Testosterone improves spatial memory (spatial memory is a form of memory responsible for the recording of information about one’s environment and spatial orientation).

Testosterone also improves verbal memory, which influences how fluently you combine thought and speech.

High testosterone also promotes attention to detail.

Testosterone and Competitiveness

Testosterone increases competitiveness, the ability to see opportunities, the desire to go after those opportunities and the drive to take action.

However, this increase in competitiveness is without spite.

It’s not the kind of competitiveness where you want to beat someone, humiliate them and/or gain power over others.

It’s rather the kind where you want to gain improvement in your own life and feel good about yourself for doing so.

Men with higher testosterone do want to earn more, be more, enjoy more and so on.

Testosterone helps you feel unsatisfied with suboptimal conditions and propels you to do something smart about it.

Interestingly, men with lower testosterone that were put into a high status position showed poorer cognitive functioning than those with higher testosterone: the reverse occurred after being put into lower-status positions.

Competitiveness and improving status tie in with the misconception of the desire for power.

Some people might think that someone that is driven, competitive and status seeking wants power over others, but that is not the case.

“…testosterone increases positive attitudes toward positional goods when they are described as status-enhancing, but not when they are described as power-enhancing or high in quality.”

The desire to rule over others and control them is more likely driven by early trauma in life, fear (high cortisol) and excess serotonin (stress hormone).

Furthermore, studies show that testosterone injections increased generosity, cooperation, and honesty.

All of which are pro-social non-aggressive behaviours that may promote one’s status.

Elevated testosterone also increases fair bargaining behaviour, thereby reducing bargaining conflicts and increasing the efficiency of social interactions.

Testosterone and Mood

Elevated testosterone is associated with low anxiety and depression and elevated motivation, euphoria and the ability to enjoy things more.

Have you ever been with someone that seemingly can’t see the good in things or be able to enjoy life as you do?

That is most likely driven by an excess of cortisol and serotonin. Excess serotonin promotes anhedonia, so if you want to enjoy life, keep that serotonin low and testosterone and dopamine high.

Overall, it’s clear that there is an immense subjective benefit to raising your testosterone.

I can hand-on-heart personally attest to how transformative it has made me feel by raising my testosterone to over 850.

For someone who used to be extremely insecure, self conscious and anxious, ever since I more than doubled my testosterone, many of these traits have all but melted away.

Of course, it’s not the only thing but it has certainly made an enormous difference.

That’s all for this Monday.

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Your, Simmo.

P.S:

If you are struggling with:

• Low energy

• Erectile issues

• Low self-esteem or confidence

• Sleep problems

• Insecurity around women

• Body-conscious (skinny or overweight)

Odds are, you may have low testosterone.

If you’d like to have an informal, confidential chat about your situation.

Book a free discovery call here.

P.S.S:

Let me give a disclaimer here that testosterone is not the only hormone involved in personality, but that personality is influenced and formed (but can still be changed) by a lot of things.

For instance, trauma early in life, decision making of how to deal with unfortunate events that lead to certain solidified beliefs and mindsets, love or rejection experienced, role models early in life, mentality of parents and friends, mood, expectations, opportunities, blood sugar, as well as other hormones such as estrogen, cortisol and serotonin.

All of these factors play a vital role in personality.

P.S.S.S:

I encourage you to click on the Tweet below and scroll through the comments - it’s extremely revealing about the undercurrent that exists outside the traditional media norms who don’t seem to want to entertain anything “pro masculine”