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Stepping inside Hustlers University was both eye-opening and disheartening. The website greeted me with a barrage of quotes designed to evoke a feeling of urgency to not be “nobody.” This seemed eerily reminiscent of manipulative marketing tactics intended to preying upon insecurity. Yet beneath the cringe-worthy attempts to bolster fragile masculinity lay some snippets that could potentially advise on self-improvement.
This notion of offering direction to young men in search of purpose piqued my interest. Perhaps, I reasoned, there was more content than just self-aggrandizing rhetoric.