Victor, I've been reading your blog for a few months now and love your work. Picking up BoaS today! I want to confirm everything you've said in today's post (and where you've stated it before) for anyone who may be sitting on the fence about following your guidance. Being strong and physically fit produces immeasurable gains in one's confidence, mental well-being, and the way in which others react to you. Personally, I've experienced a hundred fold all of the examples you cite. When I was younger and in the Army, fitness was something that was just part of the job so I didn't think about it that much. Get up, do hundreds of push-ups, run 10 miles and then go to breakfast, no sweat. After I got out and started to sit behind a desk all day, made bad food decisions (or the same ones as before, just without burning it off), sat on countless airplanes, and ate way too much at business dinners I started to look and feel like someone else. I wasn't me anymore. One day I just got sick of it and hit the gym. For a few days it sucked and was difficult to self-motivate, but push through that and it grows upon itself. A boost in self confidence is the benefit that hits most quickly. You may not look different after two days but you begin to carry yourself differently, like a MAN. Without question, a confident and positive mental attitude is what makes you successful in life, what makes you push yourself to the next level, and which dictates how others see you. Are you a pussy or someone that can get it done? When you walk into a meeting room full of others who sit behind their desks all day, are on too many airplanes and eat too much, but you FEEL like you could pick up any one of them and throw them against the wall, you carry yourself in that manner. Even if you just started in the gym and you can't actually do that yet, just having that confidence sets you up for success. As I continued to work at it and my body transformed from the blob it had become into muscle I personally experienced all of those examples you've cited. If I was unintentionally standing in the way of someone but clearly blocking them, they apologized to me as if they were in the wrong. Men start asking your permission repeatedly for nothing, they move aside when you are walking in a store, they don't interrupt you, they were at the water fountain first and you walk up, they stop and let you go. I went to a dinner with a couple Goldman Sachs guys and I was their master; one says "I thought we were going to dinner, not the gun show." Just a polite smirk from you is all that's necessary. Girls start coming out of the woodwork. I experienced everything from an increase in smiles and looks, to ones moving across a bar just trying to brush up against me or touch my arms and chest in a crowd, to ones throwing themselves at me. Over the last couple years I fell out of my routine and began to fall back into a hole. Then, by chance, I found Bold and Determined, which has relight my internal fire and provided me the motivational boost I needed. Based on some of your posts I have been able to recognize the bad habits that had creeped in, adjusted my diet, and got me to refocus on self-dicipline. I am really looking forward to using BoaS on that journey. One Shot, One Kill!