How to be a Professional.
How to build the rarest trait in 2025....
Being a professional is an apex trait that is completing dying out in 2025.
Professionalism is a lifestyle.
It’s the close sibling of competence.
It transcends language, race, religion.
Anyone can spot a professional from a mile away.
Why?
Because he is intentional. He isn’t sloppy. He is punctual.
Each of us have this person in our lives. They are ultra reliable.
You name a time & place, they are there without fail.
Yet why is this trait so fucking rare in 2025?
Because amateurism is now normal.
It’s ‘cool’ to be a loser, to hate your job, to go to work & complain about something you pour 40+ hours into a week.
It’s ‘cool’ to stay up to date with the latest brain rotting trends, the newest TV series, when you wouldn’t even be the main character of a show based on your life.
But that isn’t you.
You want people to rely on you.
You want to have peak professionalism in any endeavour of your choosing.
You want to develop into someone that your mother, father, sister, brother, girlfriend, wife, children, neighbourhood, clients can count on.
I wish that everyone of you who reads this experiences someone feeling completely & utterly safe because of who you are as a man.
Because the rarest breed of man is becoming the one who is a professional.
And moves through life accordingly.
But how do you become it? How do you make professionalism an archetype of your identity?
Try the following for the next 30 days…
BE A MAN OF ACTION.
The amount of friends I grew up with who said they were going to do all of these amazing things.
The ‘ideas’ guys, who have now amounted to nothing is astounding.
Commit to letting your actions speak.
Only announce achievements once they have occurred.
Don’t give yourself a fake surge of dopamine by daydreaming about your ideas.
If you say you’re going to do something, do it.
Uphold every single commitment you make, or don’t commit in the first place.
What this does is builds a level of self respect that is unmatched, it sounds terribly simple, but the execution is incredibly challenging.
BE ON TIME. ALWAYS.
I’m sure you all have that one person you know who is always 15 minutes late.
They always have an excuse.
This is the epitome of a loser trait. If I have clients who are 10 minutes late & it’s not a genuine reason, the meeting is cancelled.
When you are late, you are disrespecting someones time. The most valuable resource we have & ever will own.
If you want to be taken seriously & you are constantly late, winners will not tolerate poor punctuality.
BE COMPETENT
It doesn’t matter what you dedicate your life to.
Be fucking good at it.
If you’re in the trades, complete the finest work in the industry.
If you run a business, strive to create the best product or service that exists on planet earth.
At the same time, don’t be a one trick pony.
It is not hard to have basic skill sets, in the realms of martial arts, cooking, changing a tyre, basic trade skills, marketing & sales….
When you stack these contrasting skillsets together, you become impossible to put into a box, you become a Modern Renaissance Man.
BE DURABLE
No matter what you wish to achieve in life, its far easier doing so if you have an unlimited reserve of energy to deploy into your passions.
Into sparring, business ventures, career prospects, relationships - you name it.
Having a high level work capacity is arguably one of the only common traits you see among self made men.
It far outweighs IQ, or any other intelligent metric that exists.
Because if you have an elite gas tank for life, one that allows you to squeeze every last drop out of your experience, its very hard not to be a winner.
This entire philosophy is the central pillar of Training Like a Lethal Gentleman.
BE A PROFESSIONAL.
Sloppiness should disgust you.
Being a loser who misplaces things, forgets things & is always late, should repulse you.
Being a professional all starts with a shift in identity.
No matter where you are or who you are today.
You can choose to be a professional.
You can choose to develop a body of work (both physical & intellectual) that you are proud of.
You can be someone worth admiring.
Someone you are proud of looking in the mirror.
Become lethal.
J.Krucial.
I work like a mad dog and have quite a lot of potential but I lack so much in professionalism
Going to make this a focus starting now
The opportunities I've been blessed with are too great to fumble
Great post and I couldn't agree more--the bar is so low for modern men! When being an amateur is the norm, it becomes incredibly easy to ascend. That being said, men need to strive towards archetypal ideals to become true professionals.