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Working Out Work: Getting Your Career In Shape

May 9, 2013 by Dan King 2 Comments

Pump it up. Sweat it out. Make it burn.

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: American Council of Exercise, balance, career, education, email, employment, endurance, energy, exercise, flexibility, gym, habits, health, job, pain, social media, strength, Stress, text messages, The Good Life, Work

Tough Guy

March 26, 2013 by Andrew Cotto 16 Comments

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Mike O’Shea was a physically powerful and courageous man, but what made him a hero to his lifelong friend, Andrew Cotto, was his capacity for love.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Male Toughness, The Good Life Tagged With: boyhood, Boys, brotherly love, childhood friends, courage, determination, Dyslexia, education, endurance, family men, good cops, grace, heroes, heroic men, LAPD, larger than life, learning disorders, male toughness, martial arts, men's friendships, mental toughness, new york police department, New York's finest, NYPD, patience, physical fitness, physical strength, platonic friendship, Police, police officers, qualities of a hero, sacrifice, strong men, The Good Life, tough guys, tough men, tributes

Failure Is An Option

February 23, 2013 by Jeff Bogle 2 Comments

Kids need to be able to fail in order to learn how to succeed.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: adolescent boys, Challenges, child development, childhood, children in team sports, consequences, determination, disappointment, endurance, failure, Frederick Douglass, frustration, games, highly sensitive children, invincibility, letting kids fail, long term planning, maturity, parental neglect, Parenthood, parenting, patience, progress, Responsibility, sports, sportsmanship, struggle, success, the Atlantic, trouble

Male Toughness: 3/9

February 21, 2013 by The Good Life @ GMP 3 Comments

Do men need toughening up, or are we tough enough already?

Filed Under: Calls for Submissions, The Good Life, The Good Men Project Content Calendar Tagged With: agency, calls for submissions, endurance, Iron Man, male stereotypes, manhood, masculinity, muscle, power, stoicism, strength, tough guy, virility

Unconquered

January 28, 2013 by Jeff Swain 1 Comment

Jeff Swain defines ‘unconquered,’ with some help from his friends: William Ernest ‘Captain of My Soul’ Henley and Tom Petty.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: amputee, death, endurance, fate, Fighting, Free Falling, gallows humor, hitting bottom, I am the captain of my soul, I am the master of my fate, indifference, injustice, losing, Meaning of Life, mental health, mortality, my head is bloody but unbowed, mythology, myths, overcoming adversity, rites of passage, running, success, Suffering, suicidal thoughts, suicide, tests, Tom Petty, tubercular poets, William Ernest Henley, winning at life

Never Stop Living

December 27, 2012 by Jeff Swain 3 Comments

Does self-image ultimately determine how the body will perform?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: adventure, aging, anxiety, artists, athletes, beauty, confidence, courage, depression, Ed Whitlock, endurance, flow, Freud, General Patton, goals, Greek mythology, health, heroes, inventors, Les Brown, Ludmilla Enquist, marathons, Maxwell Maltz, medicine, mental health, mental illness, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, neurosis, overcoming adversity, plastic surgery, positive psychology, positive visualization, preventative care, preventative medicine, Psyche and Cupid, psycho-cybernetics, psychoanalysis, psychology, recovering from loss, running, self image, senior athletes, Sex and Relationships, soul, success, trauma, trials, venus, Walt Whitman, winning

The Uniform of Gender

December 11, 2012 by Vironika Tugaleva 13 Comments

Gender is like a uniform you can’t take off.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Smashing Male Stereotypes, The Good Life Tagged With: authenticity, biological differences, brain plasticity, Brene Brown, career, clothes make the man, cops, cortisol, crying, dissociation, emotional intelligence, endurance, fear of police, gender, gender differences, gender police, gender stereotypes, homeless people, identity, institutionalized racism examples, law enforcement, learning to cry, male emotions, Police, police officers, race, racial stereotypes, relationships, sex differences, smashing male stereotypes, Stereotypes, strength, stress responses, TED Talks, uniforms, vulnerability, white knight

Are You a Warrior? A Mudder? Neither? Both?

August 21, 2012 by Hugo Velasco 4 Comments

The Warrior Dash and Tough Mudder draw very different types of competitors.

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Sports, The Good Life Tagged With: 5K, British Special Forces, Challenges, charity events, competitors, endurance, getting in shape, inspiration, mud runs, obstacle courses, participants, runners, running, St. Jude, stamina, strength, teams, Tough Mudder, Warrior Dash, Wounded Warrior Project

Am I Less Than a Man?

August 6, 2012 by Turner Wright 21 Comments

Do you have to look the part to be a “real man”? Turner Wright questions his body type.

Filed Under: Body Image, The Good Life Tagged With: athletics, body image, Channing Tatum, Chris Farley, confidence, dating, desirable, endurance, exercise, Fitness, good shape, Lance Armstrong, long distance running, looking good, men, men's fitness magazines, Real Men, runners, self image, strength, superheroes, The Good Life, tight clothes, women's gaze

“When I talk to other survivors, I say ‘It was too much ugliness for me too, but I endured.’”

July 2, 2012 by the Editors Leave a Comment

This is a comment by Rob on the post “The Sandusky Verdict: Stepping Out of the Shame”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: abuse, Comment of the Day, emotions, endurance, Faith, feelings, Jerry Sandusky, license, men, pain, Sandusky, Sex and Relationships, sexual abuse, Survivors, ugliness

Manhood From the Endurance to the Costa Concordia

January 19, 2012 by Tom Matlack 5 Comments

On the high seas there have always been those who acted just as horribly as others did bravely.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: Costa Concordia, endurance, Italy, Moby Dick, Shackleton, shipwreck

Not This Morning: Part Two From Prison

November 1, 2011 by A. Whitfield 2 Comments

A. Whitfield, currently incarcerated at Antioch prison in California, continues his story of endurance, patience, and principle.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content, Prison Tagged With: A. Whitfield, Antioch, cell, endurance, jail, loneliness, prison, prisoner

No Gain in the Pain: Self-Injury, Endurance Sports, and Male Narcissism

October 10, 2011 by Hugo Schwyzer 7 Comments

Hugo Schwyzer tells about his experiences in and out of the pain of Self injury, Endurance Sports, and Male Narcissism.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content, Pain Tagged With: endurance, Hugo Schwyzer, pain, running, Self-Mutilation

What Women Don’t Tell You

May 10, 2011 by Amanda Marcotte 141 Comments

Many a ballsy broad, Amanda Marcotte argues, is afraid to say “Please do this” or “Don’t do that” in bed. Here’s what many women are really thinking.

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Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Best of Advice & Confessions, Featured Content Tagged With: Amanda Marcotte, bedroom, endurance, porn, sex, Sex and Relationships, what women want, women

The Endless Triathlon

July 15, 2010 by Newsroom 1 Comment

Charlie Wittmack embarks on a 12,000-mile triathlon. We’re getting parched just thinking about it.

Filed Under: Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: AOL News, badass, biking, endurance, international, running, swimming, triathlons

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The Scoop on Ben & Jerry’s Latest Campaign

Ben Cohen, the first half of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was at Union Station in Washington on Tuesday to literally give cash away. These were no ordinary bills, though.

13-Year-Old’s Football Invention May Save Lives

Ryan Beck won third place at the California State Science Fair with a football helmet that could reduce sports-related brain injuries in pros and teens alike.

Australia’s Army Chief Takes a Firm Stance Against Sexual Misconduct

Ladies and Gentlemen; this is called, “Taking a Stand.”

Sergio Vieira de Mello ‘A Complicated Hero’ (TEDTalks VIDEO)

Political Scientist Samantha Power tells the story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

Facing the Reality of Men Who’ve Been Raped By Women

An article in The Atlantic exposes the reality of male survivors who’ve been assaulted by females, including Don Draper, the main character in the show Mad Men.

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