600: Brett McKay | Art of Manliness
The Art of Charm
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4.7 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If I can find some classical ideal of being this excellent person, that resonates with |
| 0:06.7 | it's Theodore Roosevelt or Julius Caesar's or some great badass from history, |
| 0:11.9 | displaying this virtue. I'm like, that's awesome. And there's all this conversation about it. |
| 0:15.5 | We need to redefine masculinity. What you need to do is just revive this classical idea of |
| 0:21.7 | manliness that we once had and bring it back. And also taking a consideration, yeah, there's |
| 0:26.7 | some parts of masculinity or traditional manliness that maybe we should leave in the dustbin |
| 0:30.8 | of history. Don't throw the baby out the bathwater. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome to The Art of Charm. I'm your host Jordan Harbinger. Today we're talking with my friend |
| 0:44.8 | Brett McKay of The Art of Manliness. Yes, the brand does sound similar. No, we did not do that on |
| 0:49.5 | purpose. This is a rare episode of AOC because it is specifically for guys. It is about manliness. |
| 0:54.8 | We're going to talk about why modern masculinity should be revived, not necessarily redefined. |
| 0:59.2 | The domains of man should develop to become well-rounded. Why men should strive to be useful, |
| 1:04.6 | not important, and what that has to do with manliness, and why action is the key to flourishing, |
| 1:09.4 | and why you need to get out of your head. A little bonus discussion at the end about resilience. |
| 1:14.3 | If you liked our episode about grit, you might dig that discussion. So get your edgimication |
| 1:19.1 | with us here at The Art of Charm and Brett McKay from The Art of Manliness. See what I did there? |
| 1:23.5 | And by the way, if you're new to the show, we'd love to send you some top episodes and the AOC toolbox. |
| 1:28.8 | That's what we would discuss concepts like reading body language and having charismatic |
| 1:32.4 | nonverbal communication, the science of attraction, negotiation techniques, networking, |
| 1:37.0 | and influence strategies, mentorship, persuasion tactics, and everything else that we teach here |
| 1:41.9 | at The Art of Charm. Check that out at theartofcharm.com slash toolbox. Also at Theartofcharm.com slash |
| 1:47.7 | podcast, you can find the show notes for this in all previous episodes of The Show. All right, |
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