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Qualms of a Modern Man

May 8, 2013 By Kevin Yi Leave a Comment

In a (sort of) internal monologue, Kevin Yi examines his manhood: what it means, where it comes from and how he is putting it to use.

Filed Under: Humor Tagged With: Abramovic, Kevin Yi, manhood, Marina Abramovic, my purpose, my purpose as a man, Nick Wooster, purpose, Qualms of a Modern Man, Qualms of the Modern Man, what makes me a man, YMCA

A Man Needs A Mission

March 25, 2013 By Phil Askew, CPCC 2 Comments

Phil Askew wants to know: “what is it that wakes and shakes you up?”

Filed Under: What's Good About Masculinity? Tagged With: darkness, lightness, men, mensfundamentals.com, mission, personal exploration, personal growth, Phil Askew, purpose, wholeness

Are Fathers As Free to Leave Their Careers As Moms?

March 4, 2013 By Sarah Butler 21 Comments

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Are men more vulnerable to burn out and career dissatisfaction without a biological imperative to slow down and reassess?

Filed Under: Featured Content, The Good Life, Work/Life Balance Tagged With: ambition, career breaks, career burn out, career choices, career fatigue, career trap, changing professions, Entrepreneurship, fatherhood, fathers working part time, flex-time, fulfllment, gender inequality, gender pay gap, going back to college, job loss, layoffs, male ambition, Men at Work, men in workplace, mompreneurs, motherhood, mumpreneurs, pregnancy, purpose, redundancy, stay at home dads, stay at home moms, success, training for a new career, unemployment, work life balance

The Next Life [Book Excerpt: 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared]

February 4, 2013 By Kim Stafford 2 Comments

My brother Bret started the next life at forty, when he departed from this world by suicide.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Solitude, Suicide, The Good Life Tagged With: adventure, anthropology, brotherhood, brothers, california, camping, Candle Creek, Cascade Mountains, children, depression, dreams, fatherhood, finding yourself, First Nations people, friendship, grief, hiking, Iowa, Ishi in Two Worlds, loneliness, Meaning of Life, Mount Jefferson, Native Americans, Oregon, Poet Laureate, poets, Presbyterian, purpose, single fatherhood, solitude, Suffering, suicide, teaching writing, Texas, Wilderness, William Stafford, writers

Cockfighters and Poets

December 10, 2012 By Jeff Swain 3 Comments

What the cockfighter and the artist have in common is what they put on the line.

Filed Under: Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: animal cruelty, anthropology, artistic process, artists, Bali, Balinese cockfighting, Catharsis, character, Clifford Geertz, cockfighting, cockfights, courage, creating art, creation., cultural anthropology, Culture, desire, destiny, dueling, fate, Greek myth, Greek plays, Greek tragedy, Herbert Miller, hero, heroic journey, heroism, identity, integrity, Joseph Campbell, manhood, manhood rites, marathons, masculinity, Meaning of Life, passion, perception, plays, power of myth, purpose, quarter-life crisis, running, sexuality, sport, strength, The Interpretation of Cultures, The Spirit of Tragedy, tragedy, victory, violence, virility

Boys in the Friend Zone

November 23, 2012 By Ben Keeler 44 Comments

How can we mentor boys in dating and relationship skills?

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, Mentoring and Volunteering, The Good Life Tagged With: adolescent romantic relationships, anger, arrogance, art of seduction, being good, Ben Keeler, boyfriends, Boys, clarisse thorn, commitment, condoms, confessions of a pickup artist chaser, confidence building, control, dating, dating advice, depression, destructive need satisfaction, doing good, drive, education, emotional intelligence, Ervin Staub, ethics, friend zone, friendzone, friendzoned, fulfillment, game, game blogs, gender stereotypes, girlfriends, goodness, high school boys, human needs, hypervigilance, intimacy, male goodness, men, mentoring boys, middle school boys, misogyny, moral issues, moral motivation, morality, Motivation, Pick Up Artists, Pickup artist, psychology, PUA, purpose, pushover, relationship skills, Responsibility, romantic relationships, seduction blogs, seduction community, sex drives, sexual relationships, shame, Stress, teaching intimacy, teaching morality, teenage boys, testosterone, The Game, traditional gender roles, what boys think, why do girls like jerks, why do women like assholes

The Meaning of Life

November 11, 2012 By Jeff Swain 14 Comments

Jeff Swain’s new column on The Good Life explores the myths that tell the story of what it is to be a human being.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: Alberto Manguel, art, Bulfinch's Mythology, collective unconscious, consciousness, identity, interpreting myths, Joseph Campbell, Jung, life, Meaning of Life, milestones, mortality, myth, personal narratives, philosophy, power of myth, psyche, psychoanalysis, purpose, rites of passage, stories, Thomas Mann

“You can’t ask a kid to juxtapose Duke Ellington with Lil’ Wayne; he did that on his own.”

June 11, 2012 By the Editors Leave a Comment

This is a comment by Jesse Stoner on the post “Who I Am: Poems by Kids”.

Filed Under: Comment of the Day Tagged With: Boys, buffalo, Duke Ellington, Fleurette Africaine, girls, headphones, history, iPod, kids, poems, poetry, purpose, students, teachers, writing

George W. Bush, Boys, and Not Knowing Your Life’s Purpose

January 3, 2012 By Frederick Marx 3 Comments

Frederick Marx want to know who’s going to show all the young men where to go with their lives.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values Tagged With: direction, George Bush, identity, life, masculinity, purpose, teenagers

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Zach Sobiech May Have Died, But His Music and His Love Live On

Justin Baldoni: “It’s not because you’re dying. It’s because of the way you’re living.”

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Gun Rights Group Files Lawsuit Against Officials in Connectucut

The Office of the Connecticut Attorney General asserts that the new legislation is legal and the office is “prepared to vigorously defend the law against any court challenge.”

Walmart Security Accuses Father of Kidnapping His Own Biracial Children

A Virginia man was accused of kidnapping his own children last week because, according to Walmart security, a white man with biracial children just didn’t “match up.”

Boy Scouts Vote on Lifting Ban on Gay Members

A controversial debate within the Boy Scouts of America is coming to a head this week as 1,400 of its leaders vote on lifting the ban that doesn’t allow homosexuals or atheists into its ranks.