A Message For Men Ready To Give Up
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
I was asked recently what I'd say to men who've been thinking about giving up. Who are at the end of their rope. Not an easy topic, and I don't have a magic bullet or tactical steps for you this time.
But I do have a gentle reminder.
(00:00:00) - Intro, and choice
(00:07:42) - On suffering and gauging what you can truly change
(00:15:31) - The risk of convincing
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| 0:00.0 | So for a long time, I have received messages from men who have been thinking about giving up. |
| 0:11.8 | And in a recent conversation with the buddy, he said, you know, what do you say to guys that |
| 0:18.2 | are really thinking about giving up? whether they're thinking about giving up a |
| 0:22.4 | career, a job, you know, a relationship, or, or they're really at the end of their rope, |
| 0:28.4 | and they're thinking about just giving up all together. And I said, you know, this is, this is a tough |
| 0:33.1 | one because I get messages all the time from men who are really struggling and who say that they're |
| 0:39.0 | kind of at the end of the rope. And so I wanted to create a little video that was for any man |
| 0:44.8 | that feels like he's at the end of what's possible. And I hope that you share this with any man that you know or you think is |
| 0:56.3 | struggling that is thinking about giving up and sort of throwing in the towel. And this isn't |
| 1:02.1 | really a plea for you as a man if you're watching this and you feel like you're at the end |
| 1:08.2 | and you feel like it's like you want to give up. This isn't really |
| 1:13.5 | a plea or a bargain to try and get you to stay. It's not even really a motivational speech or |
| 1:21.7 | video to try and convince you that life is worth living or anything as cliche as that. If anything, it's more of a |
| 1:31.2 | reminder that you might have more choice in life than you think. And I say that because out of all |
| 1:39.0 | the men that I've ever worked with, out of all the men that I've spoken to and all the men who have been |
| 1:45.2 | rate at the very edge, what seems to stand out the most is that it seems like the final |
| 1:53.4 | irreducible choice. I'm at the very end. I feel like I'm just going to give up. And that feels like in that moment, |
| 2:04.2 | and I've been there, by the way, there was a moment in my life where I lived out of the back |
| 2:08.5 | of my car for a few weeks and I had destroyed. I had imploded my entire life, my career, |
| 2:14.0 | my relationship, friendships, family. I mean, I really had blown things up. I've been lying and |
| 2:20.4 | cheating and, you know, drinking and just doing stupid shit for years. And it seemed like I had |
| 2:28.8 | gotten myself there because I felt like I didn't have choice for such a long time. And I didn't feel like I had |
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