Phi Psi Lambda Final Exam Study Notes

Stage I: The Death Stage

  • Focuses on foundational knowledge and self-transformation.
  • Emphasizes obedience, leadership, and shedding boy energies.
  • Key concepts include:
    • Obedience vs. sacrifice: Learning to be a follower.
    • Excuses: A form of emasculation.
    • Importance of knowledge: Sustains spiritual life.
    • "Ignorance on fire is better than knowledge on ice": Action over inaction.
    • Success: Mastery of difficulty.
    • Brotherhood: Unique bond based on shared experiences, eternal principles, love, and knowledge.
    • Commitment: Essential for brotherhood.
  • Founding of Phi Psi Lambda:
    • Founded: September 24, 2016, in Paramus, New Jersey.
    • 7 Founders: Damyen Davis, Juan D. Hurtado, Jordan M. Posada, Fernando Senchi, Tristan T. Anderson, Elisha M. Phillips, Justin A. Anderson.
  • Rites Process:
    • Maxim: Transforming boy energies into man energies.
    • Lambdaship Line: Collective collaboration, environment shapes heredity, trials build a bond, pressure builds brotherhood.

Core of Phi Psi Lambda

  • Vision: Inspire and cultivate leadership among men of color universally.
  • Mission: Champion the cause of men of color, particularly those underrepresented in higher education.
  • Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Valuing all members regardless of background.
  • Four Pillars: Excellence, Education, Leadership, Brotherhood.
  • Nine Principles: Love, Respect, Wisdom, Courage, Honor, Reflective, Discipline, Patience, Sacrifice.
  • Decorum: Behavior keeping with good taste, propriety, and conduct.

The Luxe Life of Decorum of a Phi Psi Lambda Gentleman

  • Manners Maketh Man: Understanding, Loving, Empathetic, Courteous.
  • Camaraderie: Trust, Love, Respect, Honor.
  • Good Manners: Reflective, Internally motivated, Intuitive, Conscientious.
  • 21 Eternal Truths: Guidelines for gentlemanly life.

The Poems of Phi Psi Lambda

  • Invictus:
    • Author: William Ernest Henley.
    • Theme: Will to survive in the face of adversity.
    • Invictus means unconquerable and undefeated in Latin.
  • Success Poem

The LUXE Life Dress Attire of a Phi Psi Lambda Gentleman

  • Class A, B, C attire guidelines.
  • Bow tie as a symbol of transformation and connection to knowledge.
  • Trinity Knot: Eternal love, past, present, and future.
  • Eldridge Knot: Pinnacle of gentlemen’s style.

The Wisdom of the Phi Psi Lambda Leader

  • Man’s Quintessential Delusion: Blocks from discovering purpose.
  • Importance of mastering fear.
  • "How Can I Become Successful?": Success compared to the growth of a bamboo tree, requires patience and investment.
  • Chinese Bamboo Tree: Doesn’t break ground for 5 years, then grows rapidly.
  • Difference between Leaders and Followers: Their thinking, spirit of leadership, attitude

The Heart of Leadership

  • Leaders develop thinking and perceptions that change how they see themselves and the world.
  • Lion and Eagle used to understand leadership ability; Lion is for Attitude, Eagle is for Altitude.
  • Attitude of the Lion is a Leadership Attitude because the Lion acts how he thinks
  • Leadership Development is determined by: Why you think you exist, Who you are, Your sense of significance, How committed are you, Your level of belief.

Vision and Purpose

  • Five Questions to Life: Why am I here? What can I do? Where am I from? Where am I going? Who am I?
  • Vision directs life.
  • Seek to become a person of value.
  • Vision empowers the leader.
  • Mathematical Alphabet: Symbolic meanings of numbers.
  • Purpose: The reason why someone was created, determines success.
  • Work: From the word ergon, means to become.
  • Character: Foundation of Trust; integrated personality; commitment to values; self-imposed discipline.
  • Ikigai: What gets you up every morning and keeps you going
  • Genius is the intersection between your passions and your talents.

Stage II: The Jinn Stage

  • Focus: Self-examination, analysis, and correction.
  • Introduction to one's