Stop Medicating Our Sons. They Are Not Sick. They Are Glitching.

Walk into any classroom in Lagos, London, or New York, and you will see the same tragedy.

You will see a boy sitting at a desk, tapping his foot, staring out the window, looking completely checked out.

The teacher calls him distracted.

The doctor calls him ADHD.

The parents call him lazy.

They are all wrong.

The modern boy is not sick. He is not broken. He is simply trying to run a high-performance Operating System on a network that doesn’t support him.

He is suffering from a System Glitch.

The Sit Down Crisis

For the last 50 years, we have designed the world especially schools around a Female Operating System.

The Request: Sit still. Listen quietly. Write neatly. Cooperate.

The Reality: The male brain is designed for Kinetic Movement, Competition, Spatial Risk, and Hierarchy.

When a boy cannot sit still for 8 hours, we don’t change the school; we medicate the boy. We tell him his energy is a disorder.

And then we wonder why he escapes into Fortnite and Call of Duty.

He doesn’t love video games because he is lazy. He loves them because video games speak his native language: Risk. Reward. Rank. Mastery.

Video games give him a mission. School gives him a worksheet.

The Diagnosis: The E.V.I.L. Virus

I have spent years analyzing the root cause of this apathy. I discovered that most boys are running on a corrupted mental script I call E.V.I.L.

E – EXPLOIT: The algorithm mines his attention for profit, frying his dopamine receptors with 15-second clips until he can’t focus on a book.

V – VILIFY: Society tells him his natural aggression is toxic masculinity, so he shuts down to avoid being cancelled.

I – INHIBIT: We protect him so much he never feels the sting of failure, so he never develops resilience.

L – LOATHE: He looks in the mirror and hates himself because he doesn’t have the “Influencer” lifestyle he sees online.

This is not a behavioral problem. It is a Software Problem.

You cannot lecture a computer virus away. You have to Patch the System.

The Solution: The L.I.V.E. Upgrade

At BMAN and using the proprietary of L.I.V.E. Pathfinders, we stopped trying to teach boys. We started Upgrading them.

We realized that if you want a boy to read, lead, and build, you have to gamify the process. You have to turn his life into the video game he is already playing.

We developed the L.I.V.E. Character Architecture:

LOVE (The Agent): Instead of Self-Care, we give him Hardware Maintenance. We teach him that his body is the machine that runs the mission.

INSPIRE (The Operator): Instead of Leadership, we give him Squad Command. We teach him that a Lone Wolf dies, but a Squad survives.

VALUE (The Architect): Instead of Economics, we teach him Resource Allocation. We teach him that money is ammunition for his future empire.

EDUCATE (The King): Instead of Studying, we teach him Data Mining. Wisdom is the cheat code to the game of life.

The Results

When we switched the language from Be Good to System Upgrade, the results were immediate.

The lazy boy became an Operator who leads his peers.

The phone addict became an Architect building a 5-year plan.

The troublemaker became a Protector of the weak.

The Warning

We are at a tipping point. If we do not upgrade our sons, the algorithms will downgrade them for us.

We will be left with a generation of men who can level up in a game but cannot level up in life.

It is time to stop medicating the symptoms and start rewriting the code.

It is time to Delete the Glitch.

Are you ready to install the upgrade?

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About the Author:

Ola Akinwe is the Founder of BMAN and L.I.V.E. Pathfinders. He is the creator of the 7-Day Glitch Protocol and author of the trilogy THE L.I.V.E SYSTEM UPGRADE FOR BOYS, a gamified leadership curriculum used by schools and parents globally to reset the Boy-Child.