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Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. For me, has been a goal around not a transaction where I'm on the right

side of it. But how do I find relationships where I can really leverage my skills, my generosity,

whatever is my character, to just give a lot and be that guy, be the guy, be the friend,

be the boss I want to be, and just put away the scorecard. But I would have been much

happier in my 20s and 30s had I just put the scorecard away and just tried to be the man I want

to be.

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the story of secrets

and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. Our mission is to help you become a better-informed, more critical thinker through long-form conversations with the variety of amazing folks, from spies to CEOs, athletes, authors, thinkers, and performers, even the occasional organized crime figure, four-star general, arms trafficker, Russian chess grandmaster, and if you're new to the show or you want to tell your friends about the show, I suggest our episode starter packs. These are collections of our favorite episodes on topics like persuasion and negotiation, psychology and geopolitics, disinformation, China, North Korea, crime and cults, and more. That'll help new listeners get a taste of

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Spotify app to get started. Today on the show, we're diving into a topic that somehow manages to be

controversial, uncomfortable, and way too easy to meme, the collapse of young men. You've heard the

tropes, failure to launch,

man-child, toxic masculinity, neats, doom-scrolling themselves into oblivion, but under all that

snark is something real, because seldom has there been a cohort that has fallen further, faster,

than young men today. We're talking loneliness, role model vacuums, brain development gaps, skyrocketing

housing and education costs, and a generation that's somehow less wealthy than the one before it.

And while women are rightfully making incredible advancements, a whole bunch of young men

are quietly sinking, or loudly sinking. Today's conversation is not about playing

whose life is harder. This is about what

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