All right, guys, welcome back to the Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton, and today we're going to be talking about the four hard truths that every man over 30 needs to hear. Now, even if you're not 30 yet, these are probably going to be applicable for you. There are probably going to be things that you need to hear. And I'm not going to be talking about the normal crap that most guys will be talking about, right? Most guys talk about like, oh, you need to make more money, or you need to save, and you need to get in shape, and you need to be adventurous, or you need to develop a deep intentional daily practice or ritual or whatever it is. Those things,

I'm just going to leave them as a grant that as a given, right, as something that hopefully

you're already focused in on and working on. I'm going to be talking about the deeper four

things that every man over the age of 30 needs to know and understand. The first thing is about regret.

Maybe you did waste your 20s.

Maybe you screwed up and fucked up all the way through your 20s.

Good. You either lived a whole bunch and learned a ton of lessons,

but you didn't live at all,

and that should inform you of the life that you want to live, right? The unlived

expectations, the unlived adventures, the unlived desires that are all percolating up now

from your unconscious into your psyche telling you who you ultimately want to be,

the dreams that you want to pursue, the things that you want to build, the places you want to go and see and who you want to spend time with.

If you've not lived, it's oftentimes the most informative thing that you can experience.

Regret is a waste of time. Regret is something, and it's not to say

don't live without regrets, we're all going to regret something. I love the Christopher Hitchens

quote where he says, choose your regrets. I think it's one of the most important things that you can do

in your life. And so after your 30s, once you start to pass that threshold of being in your 30s or 40s or 50s,

you start to realize that regret is something that you're inevitably going to have to choose.

There is a payoff and a consequence and a cost for absolutely every decision and choice that you make.

If you can only afford to go to Thailand and you can't go to Japan, or you have to choose

between the two and one's going to cost you more money than the other one, you know, costing

you your savings, you have a decision to make.

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