Manliness
Argue Like a Man: Understanding Logical Fallacies, Part 1

Argue Like a Man: Understanding Logical Fallacies, Part 1

Every man needs to know how to persuade. Everything from buying a car, asking for a raise, advocating for a client, or convincing your significant other to go to the steakhouse over the French bistro involves the subtle art of persuasion. This eight-part segment is dedicated to teaching men how to argue by explaining the...
Debate: Are Modern Men Manly Enough?

Debate: Are Modern Men Manly Enough?

Recently, the New York Times published a series of short essays in their “Room for Debate” segment (hat tip to Tom from Taun for sending me the link). The question for debate was, “Are Modern Men Manly Enough?” and, of course, I was intrigued. As usual, the writers had a nostalgia for the past, back...
Living Large: Shorter Men Who Stood Tall

Living Large: Shorter Men Who Stood Tall

The following is a guest post by Brock McGoff of The Modest Man, a website focused on shorter gentlemen that discusses women, dating, careers, fashion, and inspiration. Head over to his website to learn more about him. — When we are facing a problem or need advice, it’s tempting to reinvent the wheel by going...
4 Coming of Age Rituals for Men

4 Coming of Age Rituals for Men

Hazing, becoming a man, initiation, breaking someone in, and starting someone off. Whatever you want to call it, these types of rituals span the entire ambit of human life and cultures. However, they are all premised on the same fundamental idea: that the participant will be a different person after an event than you were...
Men in a "Stranger Danger" World

Men in a “Stranger Danger” World

Imagine that you’re out watching your child play at a park. You see a man with a child walk over to the swings and start pushing the kid on the swings he came with. Your child sees this, and runs over and asks the man to push him on the swings, too. Decision time: do you...
Vegetables Threaten Manliness?

Vegetables Threaten Manliness?

Move over nail polish for men, step aside Ikea man-daycare, and get lost insurgence of electronics; the real threat to manliness is here: vegetables. Yes, you read correctly. That naturally unnatural green plague that flows forth from the ground serves no purpose but to steal your manliness away from you. Well, all this according to a recent...
Bertrand Russell's Ten Commandments

Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments

One of my favorite thinkers of all time, Bertrand Russell, once wrote a set of his own ten commandments in 1930. The article was published in a magazine and spread like wildfire. Later, in 1951, he revised his commandments and directed them particularly at teachers. Despite the intended audience, the commandments are particularly applicable and...
5 Men Who Sold Their Soul to the Devil

5 Men Who Sold Their Soul to the Devil

Stories of men who sold their soul to the devil in exchange for some sort of ability or object go as far back as the concept of the devil itself. Many people were killed as a result of these bargains, and many of them enjoyed a huge amount of short-lived worldly success. These are the...
Roosevelt's "The Strenuous Life"

Roosevelt’s “The Strenuous Life”

On April 10, 1899, Theodore Roosevelt gave one his most famous speeches of all entitled “The Strenuous Life.” He believed that living a strenuous life is not only in the best interest of each man, but also the country and society as a whole. As a kid, Roosevelt was an asthmatic, and he fought asthma...
Protecting Your Home: The Castle Doctrine

Protecting Your Home: The Castle Doctrine

It’s 3:00 AM and you hear someone in your family’s home. This is not a situation anyone wants to face, and each person will react differently. Some grab a gun and make for the intruder, some call the police and gather the family and keep them safe. In situations like this, look to Roosevelt’s words...
The Persistence of Bukowski

The Persistence of Bukowski

As the poems go into the thousands you realize that you’ve created very little. Charles Bukowski “As the Poems Go” American author and poet Charles Bukowski is one of the best examples of creating inspiration that I know of.  Bukowski, a gruff and blunt writer known largely for his steam of consciousness poems, has one...
Inspiration: Create, Don't Wait

Inspiration: Create, Don’t Wait

One of my favorite people in the world, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, recently answered a question that I often ask people when I interview them. In response to the question, “What can you tell a young man looking for motivation in life itself?” he replied: The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that...