The Art of Manliness

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How to Make a Good Argument

06.29.2022

Whenever you get into an argument, whether you're discussing politics with a colleague or the distribution of chores with your spouse, you likely feel like you're floundering. You feel worked up, but you don't feel like you're getting your point ...

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01.05.2022 Become a Focused Monotasker Writing an email while on a Zoom call. Talking on the phone while walking. Scrolling through social media while watching a movie. In both our work and our play, we're all doing more and more multitasking. Doing two things at ...
01.03.2022 Fat Loss Made Simple When it comes to losing weight, you can find plenty of complicated programs that involve long, intense workouts and strict calorie-counting diet plans. But my guest today takes an approach to fat loss that's awesomely simple, and even more effective ...
12.29.2021 The Tiny Habits That Change Everything We're a month into the new year now. How are you doing on your resolutions? Have you already fallen off the wagon? Maybe the goal you set for yourself was just too big to successfully tackle. You need to think ...
12.27.2021 Begin the New Year by Reflecting on These 3 Life-Changing Questions [Rebroadcast] As one year ends and another begins, it's natural to reflect on both the past and the future -- who we were, who we are, and who we want to become.
12.22.2021 The Real (Decidedly-Less-Sentimental-Yet-Still-Wonderful) Story of WWI's Christmas Truce One of the most famous stories to come out of World War I is that of the "Christmas Truce" of 1914, in which German and British forces engaged in a spontaneous and unofficial ceasefire and spent the holiday fraternizing with ...
12.20.2021 C.S. Lewis on Building Men With Chests Like Plato, C.S. Lewis believed that the human soul was made up of three parts — the head (the rational, reason-driven part of you), the belly (your appetites and base instincts), and the chest (the seat of virtue-seeking sentiments and ...
12.15.2021 Prototype Your Way to a Better Life I used to wake up early, around 5:15, and do my workout right after getting out of bed. But I noticed I was tired all day, and just felt kind of stiff and not very strong during my workouts. So ...
12.13.2021 The Perils and Powers of Cowardice There have been many books written about courage. About cowardice, however, there has only been one. The author of this lone book onb cowardice joins me today to talk about why cowardice, though much ignored, is at least equally important ...
12.08.2021 Prepare Now to Have Your Best Year Ever How did your 2021 go? Did you accomplish less than you wanted to? Are you hoping to have a more successful run at your goals in 2022?
12.06.2021 How Testosterone Makes Men, Men What creates the differences between the sexes? Many would point to culture, and my guest today would agree that culture certainly shapes us. But she'd also argue that at the core of the divergence of the sexes, and in particular, ...
12.01.2021 Cormac McCarthy, The Road, and Carrying the Fire Once a year, I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's a cathartic annual ritual for me. What is it about this novel that has such an impact on my soul and those of other readers? Who is the man ...
11.29.2021 To Drink or Not to Drink As the title of his book — Drink? — suggests, world-renowned professor of neuropsychopharmacology David Nutt thinks the cost/benefit analysis around consuming alcohol is an open question. He's not anti-alcohol — he regularly drinks himself — but he also thinks ...
11.24.2021 The Quest for a Moral Life Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your existential wheels in life? That outwardly, you seem to be doing ok, but inwardly, you feel kind of empty? My guest today would say that you’ve got to move on from trekking ...
11.22.2021 The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather When it comes to lists of men’s favorite movies, The Godfather is a perennial inclusion. And as hard as this may be to believe, the critically acclaimed and popularly beloved film is coming up on the 50th anniversary of its ...
11.17.2021 How to Achieve Cognitive Dominance When it comes to high-stakes endeavors, few are as fraught as brain surgery. One false move and you can forever alter someone's life. That's why my guest has spent his life studying how to master fear and enhance performance, and ...
11.15.2021 How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything Being famous. Knowing someone famous. Getting a laugh after telling a joke. Getting a good grade. Getting likes on a social media post. Winning a video game. Cooking a tasty meal. Being good looking. Having inside knowledge. Sharing a good ...
11.10.2021 Why Do the Navy’s Frogmen Fight on Land? When you think of the Navy SEALs, you think of elite special operators who have been tasked with commando-type missions in conflict zones from Central Africa to Afghanistan. Which raises a question you may never have thought about, but seems ...
11.08.2021 A Surprising Theory on Why We Get Fat There are two dominant theories as to why Westerners have gotten increasingly obese in the last fifty years. One is that we're eating too many carbs and carbs make us fat. Another is that our primitive appetite — which is ...
11.03.2021 Take Back the Weekend Do you ever get to feeling kind of down, dejected, and anxious come Sunday evening? People refer to this phenomenon as the "Sunday Night Blues," and it's a common experience. You may have chalked it up to rueing the fact ...
11.01.2021 The Metaphysical Club In 1872, a group of men that included future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., father of modern psychology William James, and eccentric polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, formed a philosophical society, called the "Metaphysical Club," to exchange and discuss ...
10.27.2021 The Rise of the Religious "Nones" (And What It Means for Society) In 1972, the number of Americans who described themselves as religiously unaffiliated was 5%. In 2018, it was almost 24%. Why has the number of people answering "none of the above" to the question of their religious affiliation jumped so ...
10.25.2021 The Surprising Benefits of Forgetting Whenever Dr. Scott Small is at a social event and tells people what he does for a living — that he's a memory scientist — they inevitably tell him how much they bemoan their own lapses in memory and frequent ...
10.20.2021 Let the Children Play! In Finland, children don't start formal schooling until age seven, aren't subject to standardized testing, and always get at least one hour of physical activity a day, broken into 15-minute free-play breaks every hour, which take place outside no matter ...
10.18.2021 Time Management for Mortals A lot of ink has been spilled on time management and productivity hacking; you can find endless tips on how to master your workflow, tame your inbox, slay your to-do list. Far less examined, however, is the philosophy that underlies ...
10.13.2021 Do You want to Be Rich or Wealthy? (And Why the Difference Matters) When we think about finance, we typically think about numbers and math. My guest today, however, argues that doing well with money is less about what you can put on a spreadsheet and more about what goes on in your ...
10.11.2021 Why We Get Sick Cancer. Alzheimer's. Heart disease. Diabetes. Infertility. While these prevalent and dreaded diseases are caused by multiple factors, my guest says they also all share a common thread: a ubiquitous and too-little-understood condition called insulin resistance.
10.06.2021 The Confucian Gentleman When you think about the word "gentleman," you probably think about the kind of well-mannered, well-educated, civil, virtuous, self-controlled fellows who lived in England and America during the 19th century. But there was also a not-entirely-dissimilar conception of the gentleman ...
10.04.2021 Do You Need to Take a Dopamine Fast? Her name is Anna Lembke and she's Chief of Stanford's Addiction Medicine Clinic and the author of the book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in an Age of Indulgence. At the start of our conversation, Anna unpacks the definition of addiction, ...
09.29.2021 What the Labors of Hercules Can Teach You About Life and Masculinity You're probably familiar with the mythological tale of Hercules (or "Heracles" as the hero was originally called) from books, comics, and movies. But while Hercules is often rendered as a kind of one-dimensional superhero in popular culture, my guest today ...
09.27.2021 How to Get Time, Priorities, and Energy Working in Your Favor When you think of your assets, you probably think of your money. But you also have three other hugely important assets at your disposal too: your time, energy, and priorities. When you manage these assets poorly, you can feel overwhelmed ...
09.22.2021 The Power of Talking to Strangers Look around a grocery store, airport lobby, or subway car, and you'll see a bunch of people who are physically together but distinctly separate, each off in their own world, often looking at their phones. In public environments like these, ...
09.20.2021 The Exercise Prescription for Depression and Anxiety If you went to the doctor about treating your depression or anxiety, you might expect to be written a prescription for Zoloft or Xanax. But if you went in to see Dr. Jasper Smits, he might write you a different ...
09.15.2021 Life's 10 Biggest Decisions How many of your life’s ten biggest decisions have you already made? My guest today, psychologist Dr. Adrian Camilleri, would often ask this question to friends and family, and found that it generated a lot of interesting conversation. It also ...
09.13.2021 Rewild Your Life If you have one, take a look at your pet cat or dog. These animals descended from wildcats and wolves, but today live pretty sedate lives, walking around your house and yard, waiting for you to deliver some kibbles to ...
09.08.2021 The Character Traits That Drive Optimal Performance Why do some people who look can't-miss high-achievers on paper end up floundering in life, while those who can seem like underdogs end up flourishing? When my guest noticed this phenomenon while being involved in the selection process of veteran ...
09.06.2021 Being a Man in the Lousy Modern World Note: This is a rebroadcast. It originally aired March 2020. Emerson famously said “society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.” My guest today says things have gotten a lot worse since Emerson uttered ...
09.01.2021 College — What It Was, Is, and Should Be Modern students are apt to see going to college as the way to earn a credential that will help them get a good job. But as Andrew Delbanco, Professor of American Studies at Columbia University, argues in his book College: ...
08.30.2021 Could Sleeping in Separate Beds Improve Your Relationship? When it comes to advice around getting better sleep, nearly all of it is directed at the individual sleeper who feels they've got room to improve: Here's what you might be doing wrong; here's how to straighten out your sleep ...
08.25.2021 The Conquering Father Who Made an Empire-Building Son If asked to think about the greatest generals of the ancient world, one name is likely to come to mind first: Alexander the Great — the incomparable military commander who amassed the world's largest empire by the time he was ...
08.23.2021 How Moral Grandstanding Is Ruining Our Public Discourse It's hard not to notice how heated and divided our public discourse has gotten, especially online. People insult and vilify each other, take unnuanced positions, and seem to be competing as to who can seem the most committed to a ...
08.18.2021 What a Man With 60,000 Books Can Teach You About Lifelong Learning and Building Your Home Library Gary Hoover loves books. Among the nine companies he founded was the bookstore chain Bookstop, which was acquired by Barnes & Noble. He has a personal collection of 60,000 books, which he had to purchase an abandoned medical center to ...
08.16.2021 Tips From a Top TED Talker on How to Be Heard Julian Treasure knows a thing or two about how to speak well. He's given five TED talks which have been watched over 125 million times, including one on, well, how to speak well, which resides in the top ten TED ...
08.11.2021 A Futurist's Guide to Building the Life You Want When people hear that Brian David Johnson is a futurist, they typically want him to offer up some predictions for what the world will look like 10, 20, 50 years from now. But Brian will explain to them that being ...
08.09.2021 The Hell-Raising Leader of WWII's Filthy Thirteen If you have any interest in World War II, then you've surely seen one of the most arresting photographs to come out of that conflict. In it, members of the 101st Airborne Division can be seen sporting mohawks and applying ...
08.04.2021 How to Fight Internet-Induced Numbness The ironic thing about our digital devices, is that they promise constant stimulation . . . and yet we find they end up making us feel numb. Numb in terms of struggling to be present. Numb in feeling overloaded with ...
08.02.2021 Improve Your Productivity With the Power of Deadlines Everyone has experienced the way deadlines can act as a double-edged sword: on the one hand, they force us to get stuff done; but on the other, they often push us to wait until the last minute to get to ...
07.28.2021 How Doing a Life Review Can Help Your Understand Your Past, Present, and Future Who and where do you want to be in the future? It's a question we typically answer by looking ahead. But, my guest would say, you can actually best find the answer by looking back. His name is William Damon, ...
07.26.2021 What's Causing the Male Friendship Recession? According to a recent survey, the percentage of men with at least six close friends has fallen by half since 1990, and men today are 5X more likely to say they don't even have a single close friend than they ...
07.21.2021 The Curse of the Self What a gift the human self is. It enables you to sense and reflect upon your own existence; examine the past and plan for the future; check certain impulses in order to reach for other aims; and conceptualize how others ...
07.19.2021 The Strange Science of Sweat Start jogging around the block, or simply sitting outside on a hot summer day, and you begin to feel moisture develop all over your body. Maybe a drop of sweat will roll down your face. Your clothes get sticky. You ...

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The Art of Manliness episodes:

Become a Focused Monotasker

Fat Loss Made Simple

The Tiny Habits That Change Everything

Begin the New Year by Reflecting on These 3 Life-Changing Questions [Rebroadcast]

The Real (Decidedly-Less-Sentimental-Yet-Still-Wonderful) Story of WWI's Christmas Truce

C.S. Lewis on Building Men With Chests

Prototype Your Way to a Better Life

The Perils and Powers of Cowardice

Prepare Now to Have Your Best Year Ever

How Testosterone Makes Men, Men

Cormac McCarthy, The Road, and Carrying the Fire

To Drink or Not to Drink

The Quest for a Moral Life

The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather

How to Achieve Cognitive Dominance

How the Desire for Status Explains (Pretty Much) Everything

Why Do the Navy’s Frogmen Fight on Land?

A Surprising Theory on Why We Get Fat

Take Back the Weekend

The Metaphysical Club

The Rise of the Religious "Nones" (And What It Means for Society)

The Surprising Benefits of Forgetting

Let the Children Play!

Time Management for Mortals

Do You want to Be Rich or Wealthy? (And Why the Difference Matters)

Why We Get Sick

The Confucian Gentleman

Do You Need to Take a Dopamine Fast?

What the Labors of Hercules Can Teach You About Life and Masculinity

How to Get Time, Priorities, and Energy Working in Your Favor

The Power of Talking to Strangers

The Exercise Prescription for Depression and Anxiety

Life's 10 Biggest Decisions

Rewild Your Life

The Character Traits That Drive Optimal Performance

Being a Man in the Lousy Modern World

College — What It Was, Is, and Should Be

Could Sleeping in Separate Beds Improve Your Relationship?

The Conquering Father Who Made an Empire-Building Son

How Moral Grandstanding Is Ruining Our Public Discourse

What a Man With 60,000 Books Can Teach You About Lifelong Learning and Building Your Home Library

Tips From a Top TED Talker on How to Be Heard

A Futurist's Guide to Building the Life You Want

The Hell-Raising Leader of WWII's Filthy Thirteen

How to Fight Internet-Induced Numbness

Improve Your Productivity With the Power of Deadlines

How Doing a Life Review Can Help Your Understand Your Past, Present, and Future

What's Causing the Male Friendship Recession?

The Curse of the Self

The Strange Science of Sweat

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