MikeAnthony
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Being 5’6 as a man is one of those things you can’t really looksmax your way out of.
You can get lean.
Build a better body.
Fix your teeth, hair, skin, style.
Study your face down to the bone structure.
Get jaw surgery, genioplasty, implants, whatever actually improves the weak points.
Make money.
Level up every controllable variable.
And you’re still 5’6.
That’s the blackpill part.
A taller guy can be more average than you in almost every other category and still get an immediate advantage just from taking up more space.
You don’t get that luxury.
So when you’re short, being average everywhere else feels expensive.
You start thinking the face has to hit harder.
The body has to be leaner.
The proportions have to be better.
The money has to be right.
Because height is the one deficit you can’t erase.
That’s what makes the whole journey dark.
I can literally rebuild parts of my face, cut from the 170s into the 140s, work all day, stack money for surgery, and squeeze every percentage point out of myself.
But there’s no surgery for waking up 6’0.
So the goal isn’t pretending height doesn’t matter.
It does.
The goal is becoming so strong in every other category that 5’6 is the worst thing someone can say about you.
You can get lean.
Build a better body.
Fix your teeth, hair, skin, style.
Study your face down to the bone structure.
Get jaw surgery, genioplasty, implants, whatever actually improves the weak points.
Make money.
Level up every controllable variable.
And you’re still 5’6.
That’s the blackpill part.
A taller guy can be more average than you in almost every other category and still get an immediate advantage just from taking up more space.
You don’t get that luxury.
So when you’re short, being average everywhere else feels expensive.
You start thinking the face has to hit harder.
The body has to be leaner.
The proportions have to be better.
The money has to be right.
Because height is the one deficit you can’t erase.
That’s what makes the whole journey dark.
I can literally rebuild parts of my face, cut from the 170s into the 140s, work all day, stack money for surgery, and squeeze every percentage point out of myself.
But there’s no surgery for waking up 6’0.
So the goal isn’t pretending height doesn’t matter.
It does.
The goal is becoming so strong in every other category that 5’6 is the worst thing someone can say about you.
