I started 2020 sick with Covid-19. I woke up on New Year’s Day feeling like I had a hangover. Around 4pm I began to second guess this. The “hangover” lasted 10 days. There were days I could only get out of bed to slowly shamble to the bathroom. I lost 11 pounds in 10 days.
Today is International Men’s Day but you wouldn’t know it by checking the mainstream male websites. GQ is bashing America and selling fashionable facemasks. Esquire is silent on IMD too. Though I’ll give them credit, they have a pretty good piece about the James Bond film, Goldeneye. AskMen is trying to sell you more junk you don’t need.
The lack of good manliness websites is why I created Path To Manliness.
How Did International Men’s Day Start?
Read MoreIs there anything wrong with spending your time watching sportsball? Walk into a bar on any given Sunday and you’ll hear grown men shouting obscenities at professional athletes on big screen television. These manchildren, donning jerseys over their beer bellies will be ordering fried chicken wings while claiming that these athletes are lazy for not hustling more or are weak for not playing with a broken finger. Onions are still vegetables when fried right??
What is Sportsball?
Sportsball is a…
Read More1. Men Are Searching For Direction Young men feel lost and rudderless in modern life. They’re stuck pursuing a safe life they are supposed to live rather than the life they truly want.
2. The man who constantly fears society’s judgment is forever a slave. The man who is comfortable expressing his own crazy self is a free man.
Read More“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.”
- Steven King, On Writing
Writing saved my life. The powerful, yet simple habit has helped me get my life in order, network with like-minded people online and even inspire others online. To learn more about the writing process, I just finished reading On Writing by Steven King, which I highly recommend to all writers.
Read MoreIt’s easy to walk into a gym and look at all the guys who are jacked and throwing giant weights up like they’re He-Man Master of the Gymnasium! But what you don’t see is how they started 10 years ago and had a baggy t-shirt on over a slender frame. It took dedication and effort to reach 1980s action figure levels of gainz.
You see others online starting their own business, e-commerce shop or other entrepreneurial venture. Since these people only show you the success, you get frustrated when your first idea doesn’t take off.
Read MoreIve lost ten pounds in just two weeks since starting my paleo diet. I no longer have acid reflux and my mood feels better. After just a few days of eating natural foods, I no longer miss the junk food I once ate. This diet will make you question the way you think about food. We are in the middle of an obesity epidemic and a testosterone crisis. Could the Paleo Diet be the solution to both of these problems?
Read MoreAre you frustrated by all the bad relationship advice you’ve been given? Women will give you tips that may work for them but aren’t battle tested. Never take relationship advice from women. They’ll tell you to be a nice guy because women can get laid by simply being nice to men. Read on if you want to learn how to improve your sex life.
You’ve been conditioned by years of social programming
Read More“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
“Do the things which make you strong. Stop doing the things which make you weak (unless you want to be weak).”
"You must decide how much of your time to spend on this, and how much on that. You must decide what to let go, and what to pursue."
Every relationship I’ve ever had started with fireworks. By the end of the first or second time I saw the girl, I made a move.
“They say that every relationship is made in the first five minutes. Now whatever happens in those five minutes, that’s the dynamic between the two.”
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One of the biggest shocks to a man’s life is going from the fast-paced college life to the slower career life. Overnight you lose most of the close friends that you lived with, drank with and bonded with. It can even be depressing to see your youthful, energetic and optimistic classmates replaced with older, overweight and dull coworkers. This often leads to what is called, “A Quarter Life Crisis.”
Read MoreFacial recognition is a biometric technology designed to identify and verify the identity of an individual using their face. Face detection systems can be used to identify a person's face using images, videos, or in real-time. The facial recognition industry represents one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world. Industry projections show that the facial recognition market will be worth a whopping $10.19 billion by 2025, a 100% increase from its current value.
Read MoreThe picture above is a headstone. A grave marker. Whose name is on it? When were they born? When did they die? Where were they from, what did they do? You can’t tell, can you? It’s worn, faded, dirty and well, old.
For reference, this marker is located in a Revolutionary War cemetery
Read MoreIn Fight Club, Jack (the Narrator) is mindlessly drifting from place to place via airports.
As he’s wondering through wherever, he ponders this question, “If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” There will be Fight Club spoilers in this post btw. Aside from having a complete mental breakdown and starting a cult of space monkeys, could you have a fresh new start by moving to a different place?
Read MoreWho is Joe Rogan?
If you say “Isn’t that the guy from Fear Factor?” you are hilariously out of touch. A lifetime ago, Joe Rogan was on Fear Factor, and News Radio. But these are small stepping stones to who Joe Rogan is today.
Read MoreModern life is unfulfilling to modern man. We long for meaning in our lives and we are lost in search of finding a more fulfilling life. This is why so many give in to escapism, drugs, alcohol and all the other meaningless distractions that take us away from our mundane lives
Read MoreYou don’t need the perfect routine. You need a better routine. Too many times, I see people let perfect be the enemy of good. They want to unlock the secret powers of some motivational guru like Gary Vee or a millionaire like Joe Rogan.
Read MoreMen Are Searching For Direction
Young men feel lost and rudderless in modern life. They’re stuck pursuing a safe life they are supposed to live rather than the life they truly want. And everything from school to parents to the media tell them to sacrifice their own fulfillment for the safe route. These men are then left to fend for themselves even if they find themselves disillusioned, depressed or angry.
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