Ignore all the posts that say men cannot rise up. They can. Don’t believe that your physical attributes like height are deal breakers. Peter Dinklage is a chad and you can be too.

Here are the attributes to cultivate:

Intellect, humor, personality, general competence, career, social network, physique.

All of these things can be improved through steady progress, in the way that progressive overload improves physique. There are limits, but you can optimize within your limits.

I graduated high school as a socially awkward guy who was generally not very good at life, 5’ 11”, 145 lbs, multiple chronic health problems.

Now I am 52, happily married, rocking it in my career, 210 lbs mostly muscle, and still burdened by weird chronic health issues, but thriving anyway.

Apologies for bragging, but I just wanted to emphasize that rising up is a real thing.

What are you doing to rise up?