All right, men, welcome to the Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. And today, we are going to be talking

about the seven skills that every man will benefit from developing and mastering. So I thought

about this quite a bit and put this list together based on the time that we are living in historically,

but the time that we're living in historically, but the time that we're living in socially,

culturally, geopolitically, and based on the work that I've done with thousands of men over the

years. And so the first thing that I wanted to start with is developing your capacity to

defend yourself both physically and cognitively. Now, most of the time when men talk

about how we need to, you know, develop the ability to defend ourselves, what they're generally

just talking about is to your ability to defend yourself physically. Now, that is incredibly important,

and you can learn a tremendous amount about who important, and you can learn a tremendous amount

about who you are. You can learn a tremendous amount about the world by doing things like

martial arts, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, combat training, weapons training, boxing, you know,

kung fu, et cetera. However, what we often miss out on is the really key importance of

developing cognitive defense mechanisms, psychological defense mechanisms. So we've entered into a new

era, a new period of time that has been developing for the last decade to two decades,

probably started somewhere in the 80s, but specifically in the last couple decades,

what we started to see more and more is that the people who control the narrative of our cultures,

of our societies, of our news medias and social news, social medias. The people that

control those have a tremendous amount of power. And we've entered into a time where we've

stopped reporting news, right? News outlets and stations have stopped reporting news from a fact-based

perspective and have started reporting from a narrative-based perspective.

So what they do is they say, here are the facts and here's what you should think about the

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