I was raised predominantly by my mother. My father was mostly busy working. My mother is a very submissive and meek person. I think it was because her father was very strict and domineering and it was her way of avoiding his anger.
Additionally, I grew up in an isolated part of town. Outside of school, I didn’t have much contact with non-family members. Most of my social skills training came from TV and movies.
From all of this, I have ended up as the stereotypical beta male. In the movies, the nice guy with no masculinity gets the girls and success in the end, but this is not how it works in the real world. And the timidity that may have saved my mother from corporal punishment has gotten me no respect, especially from girls.
I am resolute to revamp my life and become an alpha male, but I have no idea how to go about doing it. Recently, I quit working at my family’s business since most of the employees have known me my whole life and still treat me like a baby. Asides from that and reading a few articles, I really don’t know where to start. All I know is that I don’t want to swing from one extreme to the other and be overly aggressive and arrogant.
Can anyone give some ideas how I can shed this beta character which I have embodied my whole life and become an alpha male?
