The Art of Manliness
Detalls del Canal
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness Podcast aims to deepen and improve every area of a man's life, from fitness and philosophy, to relationships and productivity. Engaging and edifying interviews with some of the world's most interesting doers and thinkers drop the fluff and filler to glean guests' very best, pote...
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1162 episodis
Why Screen Time Leaves You Exhausted — And How to Reverse Its Effects
You hear a lot today about how our ample screentime is affecting our mental health. But how is it affecting our bodies, and how is that impact on our...
A Map for Finding Direction and Purpose in Life (Again and Again)
While we often think of life as linear, my guest’s own life, along with a decade of research, has taught him that it’s anything but. In his latest boo...
Become an Automatic Millionaire
Building substantial personal wealth can feel difficult and out of reach. But my guest says that even those with modest means can, with a few simple d...
Truths Your Therapist Won't Tell You About How to Get Your Mind Right
When people visit a therapist's office for help with their depression, they often don't find the relief they're seeking. That's because much of the co...
You’ve Been Pooping Wrong — Here’s How to Do It Better
Pooping. Everybody does it, but a lot of people are embarrassed to talk about it. That's a shame, my guest says, not only because your digestive healt...
The Mystery of Courage
Courage is one of our most prized and celebrated virtues. But once you really start exploring it, the nature of courage is surprisingly hard to pin do...
The Mental Skills for Becoming an Everyday Genius
We tend to think of genius as something you’re born with — a rare trait possessed by the Einsteins and Teslas of the world. But what if many of the ab...
The Hidden Power of Heat — How a Good Sweat Heals Your Body and Mind
Cold exposure has gotten a lot of attention the past few years, with people dunking themselves in ice baths for the sake of their health and well-bein...
The Invisible Limits Holding You Back (And How to Change Them)
When we fail to make desired progress in life, most of us put the blame on physical and environmental limits. But my guest says that what's really hol...
The Power of a Purpose-Driven Life
When it comes to building a happy and meaningful life, most of us rely on a grab bag of strategies — habits and goals around work, relationships, and...
Born to Carry — How to Build Strength, Stamina, and Sanity Through Rucking
If you're looking for a way to improve your fitness, boost your mental health, and reconnect with a deeply human activity — all without going to the g...
How to Have the Conversations You’ve Been Avoiding
The awkward silence at work when everyone knows a project is going off the rails.
The simmering resentment in a marriage over an issue neither s...
Ecclesiastes on Enjoying Our Weirdly Unsatisfying Lives
Of all the books in the Bible, Ecclesiastes is arguably the most philosophical. Dark, experiential, existential, and unsparingly honest about the huma...
How to Help Disengaged Young Men Reclaim Drive and Direction
Not long ago, the primary concern people had about boys was that they were wild, impulsive, and out of control — getting into fights, pushing limits,...
The Click Effect — Inside the Science and Magic of Social Chemistry
We’ve all had that feeling — you meet someone new, and the conversation just flows. You’re in sync. You click. But what’s really happening when that m...
How Football Took Over America — and Could Collapse
American football is so big — so braided into our weekends, our language, and our culture — that it can be hard to see it clearly as a whole.
In...
Money and Meaning — What Faith Traditions Teach Us About Personal Finance
We usually think of money as something very practical, concrete, and secular; we earn it, save it, spend it, and crunch the numbers behind it. But mon...
Strong, Conditioned, and Ready for Anything — How to Become a Hybrid Athlete
For decades, fitness culture has tended to break people into two categories: you’re either a strength guy or an endurance guy. You lift heavy or run f...
How to Use Probability Hacking to Achieve Your Goals
Most of us chase goals — starting a business, running a marathon, getting a promotion — without ever asking: What are the actual odds this will work?<...
Escape the Happiness Trap
Note: This is a rebroadcast.
Happiness is the subject of thousands of articles, podcasts, and scientific studies. Yet all this focus on happine...
The Idea Machine — How Books Changed the World (and Still Matter)
Books are everywhere. They're so common, they're easy to take for granted. But my guest argues that they’re worth fully appreciating — because the boo...
Why You Don’t Follow Through on Your Health Goals — and How to Fix It
Most of us know what we should do to be healthier: eat better, move more, sleep well. The real challenge? Actually following through.
On today’s...
Masculinity as Confident Competence
There’s a lot of debate these days about what it means to be a man. But maybe the answer is simpler than we think, and a lot of masculinity just comes...
A Butler’s Guide to Managing Your Household
Note: This is a rebroadcast.
It’s a tough job to manage a household. Things need to be regularly fixed, maintained, and cleaned. How do you sta...
How the World Wars Shaped J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
When people think of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, they often picture tweedy Oxford professors and beloved fantasy authors. But their writing wasn't...
Family Culture and the Sibling Effect — What Really Shapes Who You Become
When we think about what shaped our life trajectory, we often focus on the way our parents raised us. But what about our siblings? What role do they p...
Hercules at the Crossroads — Choosing the Hard Path That Leads to a Good Life
In a story from ancient Greek philosophy, Hercules faces a choice between two paths: one promising pleasure and ease; the other, hardship and struggle...
Make Friends With Death to Live a Better Life
We live in a culture that does everything it can to keep death at a distance. We hide it behind hospital curtains, euphemize it in conversation, and h...
Chasing the White Whale — Into the Depths of Moby-Dick
If you went to high school in America, you probably read Moby-Dick — or, more likely, you skimmed the CliffsNotes and wondered why this dense, whale-o...
The 6 Practices of the Ultimate Morning Routine
There's been a lot of talk about morning routines in the last few years. But the idea is hardly new; famous men from Thomas Aquinas to Benjamin Frankl...
The Classical Code of Manhood
What does it mean to be a man? It’s a timeless question that's been answered in different ways across the ages. For the ancient Romans, the word for m...
Why You Need the Good Stress of Socializing
You may have heard of hormesis — the idea that intentionally embracing small stressors activates the body’s repair and defense systems, building resil...
Build Muscle Without the B.S. — A Straightforward Guide to Size and Strength
Whether you’ve never stepped foot in a weight room or you’ve been lifting for years without seeing significant results, figuring out how to get big, s...
The Preparation — An Adventure-Driven, Skill-Building Alternative to College for Young Men
For generations, the path to adulthood was straightforward: go to college, get a job, build a life. But many young men are beginning to question the c...
Overdiagnosed — How Our Obsession with Medical Testing and Labels Is Making Us Sicker
Modern medicine has given us incredible tools to peer inside the body and spot disease earlier than ever before. But with that power comes a problem:...
Good Anger — Harnessing a Misunderstood Emotion
Most people think of anger as a problem — something to avoid or repress. It’s irrational, immature, and best left behind.
But what if anger isn’...
The Code They Killed For — Honor, Manhood, and the American Gunfighter
When you picture a gunfighter, you probably think of a Hollywood cowboy — spurs jangling, six-shooter on his hip, squaring off at high noon in a dusty...
Aristotle’s Art of Self-Persuasion — How to Use Ancient Rhetoric to Change Your Life
The ancient art of rhetoric has shaped political policies, influenced social movements, structured legal arguments, and molded cultural narratives thr...
How to Make a Big Decision (Faster!)
Making big decisions can feel paralyzing. Whether it's choosing a new job, moving to a different city, or deciding if you should break up with someone...
Rooted Living in a Shallow Age — A Shepherd’s Guide to the Good Life
In a world that often feels dominated by technology and constant change, it’s easy to forget that some people are still living by the rhythms of ancie...