All right, team, what's going on?

Connor Beaton here.

Welcome back to the Man Talk show.

Today, we're going to talk about the seven things that I needed to hear as a young man

and maybe you needed to hear as a young man.

The reason why I'm doing this video is because I have a two-year-old son and I've been

thinking a lot lately about what I want to teach him.

I have a lot of men in my life that have boys of

their own, some older than others. And this question of how do we prepare the next generation

of young men to be men, to be effective, to live meaningful lives that are rewarding,

to be masculine, and to pursue things that are valuable

not only to themselves individually in a sovereign sense, but in a communal sense.

And there are some very basic things that in hindsight I wish people had told me or I wish

that I had known growing up. And so I'm going to share some of those

things with you here today. The first one, discipline isn't a punishment for doing something wrong.

Discipline is a practice in giving yourself what you know you need regardless of whether you

feel like doing it. Now, the reason

why I put this one first is because for such a long time as a young man, I beat the crap out

of myself whenever I did something wrong. I learned as a young boy that discipline meant

punishment that if I did something or didn't do something that I was supposed

to, that I'd be punished for it. And so how I took that and what I learned about discipline is

that in order for me to do the things that I know I need to do, I should punish myself towards

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