[@jackneel] "Maximize Your Looks!" Clavicular Exposes Harsh Truth About Dating, Attraction, and Success

Link: https://youtu.be/NR2MwtJCZPk

Short Summary

This interview explores Clavicular's controversial philosophies on looksmaxing, a radical approach to self-improvement focused on maximizing physical appearance, even through extreme measures like early testosterone use and costly surgeries. He believes looks are the most important life metric, driving his pursuit of near-perfection via pharmaceuticals and surgeries, prioritizing appearance over health and conventional notions of hard work.

Key Quotes

Here are 5 direct quotes from the transcript that I consider particularly valuable or insightful:

1. "I maximize all metrics of my life. I've just come to the conclusion based on anecdotes, based on numbers, that looks are the most important metric and it would be insane to not prioritize them." This encapsulates his core philosophy.

2. "I was never worried about side effects. I was just worried about progressing, right? So, that's kind of always been my mentality. I'm all or nothing with everything that I do. Uh, and I just I just needed to do it, you know?" This illustrates his extreme and unwavering focus on achieving his goals, regardless of potential consequences.

3. "I would say that functionality is a better word than health, right? um because it is very likely that some of my lifespan will be diminished with the things that I'm doing. But in terms of like functional health, uh you know, I'm fantastic, right? You know, I'm I'm always very sharp. Um so there there's nothing wrong in terms of that, in terms of the way I feel every day. So that that's kind of all I'm concerned about." This showcases his prioritization of immediate well-being and performance over long-term health.

4. "It's $35,000 for a double jaw surgery with full facial implants. And I decided upon this before I did social media uh back when I was working as a server. And I knew that if I was better looking that that would pay itself off in terms of whatever I did with my career. " This highlights his belief in the direct financial benefits of enhanced aesthetics.

5. "So the scale is low tier normie, mid-tier normie, high tier normie, Chad light and Chad, right? So to quantify that is a little bit difficult to, you know, kind of explain that to normal people because normal people would assume that the average is a seven, right? Or this is what I always hear. You know, women will always tend to rate people that they find average 50th percentile as a seven, which is ridiculous, right? Because an average person would be a five on the look scale." Provides insights and quantification of the looks maxing community's rating system that differs to normal people.

Detailed Summary

Okay, here's a detailed summary of the YouTube video transcript, broken down into bullet points:

I. Introduction & Clavicular's Core Philosophy:

• The video introduces Clavicular, a 19-year-old "looksmaxer" who has redefined self-improvement by prioritizing appearance above all else.
• Clavicular believes "looks are the most important metric" in life and that prioritizing them is logical.
• He advocates for extreme measures to improve appearance, starting with testosterone injections at age 14.

II. Early Experimentation and Motivation:

• Clavicular started injecting 300mg of testosterone at 14 years old, because he felt "natural puberty wasn't enough."
• His reasoning was based on efficiency: he wanted to achieve his physique goals as quickly as possible and saw steroids as a shortcut.
• He claims to have not been concerned about side effects or the opinions of others, focusing solely on progress.
• He wasn't influenced by others, but was acting logically as he looked at mechanisms of action.
• He researched dosages and methods on bodybuilding forums like bodybuilding.com, and resources like Derek from "More Plates More Dates."
• By 16, he was experimenting with orals, and by 17, he started using masteron, a DHT derivative, to maximize puberty and penile growth.
• He believes his height increased by about 1.5 inches due to his early interventions, due to his parents' heights.
• Claims his decision to enhance his looks was not emotionally driven, but rather a logical pursuit of optimization.
• He admits that his looks made him more confident.

III. Family Reaction and Influences:

• Clavicular's parents initially confiscated his steroids but eventually accepted his decision to use them.
• His mother was a bodybuilder, and his father also lifts, but they did not directly influence his decision.
• He claims his decision was "purely logical."

IV. Philosophy on Effort vs. Results:

• Clavicular values results over effort. He emphasizes first impressions and how people perceive your appearance.
• He does not value hard work, saying it is a "ridiculous concept," and favors efficient and smart work.
• He believes people value hard work because of the knowledge they acquire during the journey.
• He acknowledges missing the sense of accomplishment that comes from natural progress in the gym.
• He dislikes going to the gym now, seeing it as a chore.
• If there were a pill that made him as smart as possible and jacked as possible, he would take it.

V. Views on Health and Longevity:

• Clavicular does not prioritize health or longevity. He values "functional health" (feeling sharp and well daily) over maximizing lifespan.
• He acknowledges that his choices may shorten his lifespan.
• He does not plan to stop taking steroids.
• He values presence and being noticeable.
• He is seriously considering limb lengthening surgery to increase his height from 6'2" to 6'6" because of percentiles.

VI. Limb Lengthening Surgery:

• The surgery involves breaking and lengthening the femur or tibia, using distractors to gradually separate and heal the bone.
• It requires 6 months to a year of recovery, including hospitalization and limited mobility.
• The surgery is very expensive.

VII. Justification for Extreme Measures:

• Clavicular justifies his extreme measures by citing research on the correlation between height and income, as well as dating app statistics.
• He believes that because women are filtering out a large majority of men based on a single metric (height), drastic measures are necessary to compete.
• He thinks that a lot of people do not do this because they're not logical, and would rather cope.

VIII. Shift from Bodybuilding to Looksmaxing:

• Clavicular shifted his focus from pure bodybuilding to prioritizing facial aesthetics.
• This shift occurred after he noticed he was treated worse when he was bigger but more bloated during a bulking phase.
• He spends 70% of his time focusing on his face and 30% on his physique.

IX. Genetic Limitations and Potential for Improvement:

• He believes the average person can improve their looks significantly with a logical approach.
• The biggest limiting factor is intelligence (IQ), as it determines the ability to understand and apply the necessary strategies.
• He believes with a hyperlogical approach, a person can increase their "look scale" by 30 to 40 percentile.
• He clarifies that one can't accidentally get big.
• He is getting a double jaw surgery because of what his money will be invested.
• He decided to get the surgery before social media.

X. Double Jaw Surgery:

• He will get a double jaw surgery that involves headcat scans, implant designers, custom titanium implants, and titanium parts.
• He will fly to Instanbul because Turkish surgeons are more willing to do blackpilled extreme movements.
• It is a BAX and BSSO, where they advance the jaws forward, rhinoplasty, and put in implants.
• It is an all-in-one process.

XI. Rating System and Perceptions:

• Clavicular acknowledges that he is already rated highly by most people, but wants to be even more attractive.
• He wants to go from a normie into a Chad through the surgery.
• He mentions different tiers: Low tier normie, mid tier normie, high tier normie, Chad light and Chad.
• He rates himself a 6-6.5 on a decile scale and believes the surgery could increase it by 1-2 points.
• Worst case scenario is an infection.

XII. Attraction Factors and Harmony:

• The looksmaxing community focuses on measurements, proportions, and "harmony scores."
• Factors include eye measurements, midface ratio, facial width, and jawline definition.
• Other factors include dimorphism, angularity, leanness, and coloring.
• He says that Matt Bomer (Neal Caffrey) has the closest score to perfection with 94% harmony.
• He says this has been around for thousands of years.

XIII. Relationships and Contradictions:

• Clavicular said that he would not leave his girlfriend for a model at the time.
• He believes that personality is still a huge thing.
• He is playing a game and trying to get results.

XIV. Nightlife and Social Observations:

• Clavicular worked as a bouncer.
• He noticed that the ones that went home with the pretty girls were 1-2 percent of men who are very good looking.
• Status does not beat looks.

XV. Dangers of Misinterpretation:

• Clavicular is aware that his content can be dangerous because it is misinterpreted, but he continues to share it because of his comprehensive resources.

XVI. Signs of Unattractiveness:

• Signs include negative treatment, lack of smiles, disgusted looks, etc.

XVII. Halo Effect and Acceptable Behavior:

• Clavicular discusses the "halo effect," where attractive people are perceived more positively.
• He gives the example of Jeremy Meeks.
• Attractive people can get away with things that unattractive people can't.

XVIII. Justification for Looksmaxing:

• Clavicular claims that he has come to the conclusion that this is the best means to do so.

XIX. Past Experiences:

• He says that how social outings he was missing out on kind of led him down the rabbit hole.

XX. Softmaxxing vs. Hardmaxxing:

• Soft maxing includes tans, and getting leaner.
• Hard maxing includes peptides, steroids, and surgeries.

XXI. Cope or Dope:

• Growing a beard: Contextual
• Mewing: Dope
• Bone smashing: Contextual
• Thumb pulling: Cope
• Self-tanning: Dope
• Melanotan 2: Dope
• Dying hair: Dope
• Perm: Contextual
• Shoe lifts: Dope
• Better fitting clothes: Dope
• Face app fraud: Dope
• Keto Diet: Cope
• Lifting weights: Dope
• Lifting weights everyday: Dope
• Cologne: Dope
• Rings and Chains: Cope
• Tattoos: Cope
• Ozempic: Dope
• Voice Training: Cope
• Teeth Whitening: Dope
• Veneers: Dope
• Eye Whitening: Dope
• Chewing Gum: Contextual

XXII. Eyebrows:

• Best way to improve eyebrows is oral minoxidil, micro needling, dermac stamping, micro brow pencil, and dying them.

XXIII. Makeup:

• Makeup is a good way to bridge the gap.
• Makeup can hide flaws.

XXIV. Eye Bags:

• Fixing eye bags involves titanium implants.

XXV. Frauding:

• Frauding is using makeup.
• Men should participate too.

XXVI. The Rating:

• He ranks Marlin between a 7.5 and 8, and is a Chad.
• His best trait is facial angularity.

XXVII. Melanotan 2:

• The UV rays are extremely damaging.

XXVIII. Top 3 Peptides:

• Reddish Tide, Melanotan 2, BPC 157.

XXIX. Ozempic:

• Ozempic is a miracle drug.

XXX. Drugs for Hair Loss:

• Minoxidil can help regrow hair, but once hair is gone it is beyond saving.

XXXI. Best Peptide and Drug to Take:

• Drug is testosterone.

XXXII. Diet:

• It is more about the macronutrients than what you select.
• The timing is very important for carbs and proteins.
• He has 250 grams of carbs before he works out.

XXXIII. Drugs:

• He takes testosterone, minoxidil, dutter, accutane, crystal meth, Redish Tide, Melanotan 2, Pregabalin, Blohen.

XXXIV. Testing human Optimization:

• In 10 years, people will look for optimization of puberty.

XXXV. IGF-1:

• Is one of the best growth pathways.

XXXVI. Son and Face:

• If he had a son that was 6'2 with a good face, he would recommend what he did.

XXXVII. What is the IQ Pill?

• No one will be able to ascend without a high IQ.
• Without a high IQ, normal people want to live in fantasy land.
• 110 is reasonable to apply everything.
• Averages are 90-100, white people are around 100.

XXXVIII. Has Anything Gone Wrong?

• One time, his blood pressure got up to 190 because of an extreme amount of salt.

XXXIX. Neurode Divergent:

• He has not been formally diagnosed but is somewhere on the spectrum.
• It is hyperlogical.
• The brain differentiates from normies.
• He is always willing to accept whatever it is, even if it means flipping his worldview on its side.
• He had seen an apple, then described it.
• 20 years from now, he would be thankful he took so many hardships.

XL. Bad Surgery:

• If the surgery gets completely botched, he would be proud of himself and dedicated.

XLI. Good Surgery:

• If it looks great, it will mean he did good because of the hard process, anxiety, anticipation.

XLII. What Is The Best Piece of Advice?

• He doesn't think anyone has ever given him worthwhile advice that immediately jumps at him.

XLIII. Worst Piece of Advice?

• The worst is be confident.
• Do whatever it takes, inspired by Rich Piana.

XLIV. Outro:

• Follow him on Instagram at Clvicular0ero, tiktok, and YouTube.