Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

The first thing I noticed about the sub is that it felt really mellow to me, kind of like Maverick did. That stands in stark contrast to US which had a stimulating effect. My stress levels dropped immediately. The next thing I noticed is that I felt a kinship with other men. Then I began to notice deference from other men. Then I began to notice hints of intimidation from other men. Then I noticed that I was walking more upright, shoulders back, chin up. Then I began to notice that I was taking up more space. At some point within the last 2 weeks, I began to want other men to challenge me so I could beat them at whatever I was being challenged on.

Other notables are that I started getting acne on my face and back within a week or two of beginning. Also, my scent changed. I began to stink more, especially my feet and armpits. One morning, I woke up with an 8 out of 10 morning wood which is something that hasn't happened in a while. I've been working out regularly mainly because I want my physical conditioning to match my mindset. In one of my offline journal entries, I noted that I want to forge myself into something "weapon-like" on a mental, physical, and emotional level. I don't mean that in the sense of violence. I mean it in the sense of Spartan-like discipline. I also noted that it's "stoking my inner badass". It feels good. Really good.

Here's a quote from my offline journal which really sums it up: "Part of me is wondering if I'll even WANT to run AM7."

First of all, I don't have Maverick experience, I can't comment on this part. Also, I haven't used this sub as regularly and as long as you have. I used PM regularly for about 3 weeks. It reduces stress levels significantly, I would describe it as 'peace of mind'. I agree 100% about getting respect from other men, there is definitely something like that. I also agree with the other things you said, I had these effects too, even though I only used it regularly for 2 and a half to 3 weeks. And then when I went back and listened to it from time to time, the effects would come back immediately.
As an example of what PM does, I was recently on DMSI and DMSI had made my life a chaos. But when I ran PM, I could clearly feel it picking up my life or encouraging me to pick it up and be better. I don't know if it's because it's 5.11g, although the programs and goals are different, but PM is really much more powerful than DMSI in terms of achieving its goals. Maybe it has something to do with the complexity of the programs, I don't know, but even PM's recommended 1 hour of listening gives serious results. I'm not trying to compare two different programs, I'm just giving an example because these are the sub's I've tried recently.

In general, PM is a very successful program in my opinion, although not many people post about it in the forum.

Thanks you for the feedback.  If you guys don't give me feedback, there is very little for me to judge how well the program works by.  That's part of why we have a forum: I am looking for feedback on the programs to know what needs work and what works well.

@papagani24 There is a literal world of difference between the technology used to build DMSI 3.5 and the technology used to build PM.  DMSI 3.5 was built in 5.8G.  That's 3 major generations and several sub-generations apart in tech.  BIG difference.

If I was able to build DMSI in 5.11G, it would be vastly improved even if all I did was rebuild the exact same key script.  The tech in the skeleton script alone would do that.  Unfortunately, I cannot build it in 5.11G, or we would already have v4.511 or maybe v5.0 published and available.

5.5G was a BIG step up from 5G.  5.75G blew away 5.5G.  5.75.7G was a BIG step up from 5.75G.  5.8G was a BIG step up from 5.75.7G. 5.9G was a BIG step up from 5.8G. 5.10G was a BIG step up from 5.9G.  And 5.11G blows away 5.10G.  Every one of those steps was as big or bigger a step up from it's predecessor than 5G was from 1G.  HUGE improvements.  And 6G is going to be another BIG step up again.

I'd like to see what happens with DMSI if we build it in 6G with no changes to the script, and see how much the challenges it faced were attributable simply to insufficiently powerful technology to accomplish the task at hand.  And if that doesn't work, we can always build it again with new script work too.