How do you become a man?

And how do you know when you've become one?

This is one of the biggest things that I hear from men all the time.

I'm 55 and I still feel like a kid.

I still feel like a young man.

I don't know if I ever really crossed the threshold.

Well, today we're to be talking about how do you actually step from boyhood into manhood? And I'm not going to be

giving you my personal advice or what I think you should do. I'm actually going to be going

through three lessons from the story of Perseus, from one of the, I mean, I don't know if there's a most important

character by any means necessary, but in terms of masculine development, in terms of stories

that embody development from boyhood into manhood, Perseus certainly, and his story and his

life as a fictional character, is one of the most important because there's

something unique about him, which is that he grew up without a father present in his life. And this

is the case for a lot of you watching this. Now, maybe you had a father in your life. There's still

going to be some very important lessons going to lay out in here. But the story of Perseus is certainly one that is helpful for the

coming of age, the stepping into manhood for a young man or for a man who especially did not

have a father in his life. So let's just get straight into it.

Perseus's mother was sequestered away by her father, by Perseus's grandfather, because Perseus's grandfather was given a kind of fortune of the future that told him that his grandson

would kill him. And so he decided, the king decided that he would lock his daughter away

where no man could get her. But that doesn't mean that no God could get her. So Zeus found her,

and her name is DeNaeus. And Zeus found her and loved this idea. You know, there's something about

the sort of sequestered away virgin,

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