Best of: Redefining What it Means to be a Man with Brett McKay
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
To Brett McKay, the definition of “what it means to be a man” has taken a turn for the worst and is now a caricature of what it was even just seven or eight decades ago. He was inspired by a visit to his local bookstore when he was frustrated by the quality of the men’s magazines there to start The Art of Manliness. Hear what he thinks makes a “real man” and why he wants to change the definition!
Brett McKay is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Art of Manliness and author of The Illustrated Art of Manliness: The Essential How-To Guide
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably notice, this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting |
| 0:04.6 | some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical |
| 0:09.4 | strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve |
| 0:14.4 | personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get |
| 0:18.5 | recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook. What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. What we're trying to do on the art of manliness is bring back this, what I call it as a classical ideal of manliness. |
| 0:40.5 | What I mean by that is the idea of manliness that started with the ancient Greeks, |
| 0:48.0 | the ancient Romans, and really was with us in the West until about the 1950s, 1960s, |
| 0:53.8 | when a lot of the social you know, the social changes |
| 0:56.8 | we had during that time. And what I mean by the classical idea of manliness is, you know, |
| 1:02.2 | if you asked someone like on the street, like what in ancient Rome, or even in America in 17th, |
| 1:08.7 | you know, the 18th century or someone in the 19th century, like, what does manliness |
| 1:12.3 | mean to you? And they would say things like, oh, well, being a man or manliness means, |
| 1:18.6 | you know, being a man of virtue, means being, you know, having strength, having, you know, |
| 1:24.6 | not just physical strength, but also moral and intellectual strength. |
| 1:29.4 | Courage means having honor. |
| 1:31.2 | It means being industrious. |
| 1:32.6 | It means providing and contributing. |
| 1:36.6 | That was another important. |
| 1:37.5 | It was being a man in ancient Rome and even in America until fairly recently, being a man meant you had to contribute to society. |
| 1:48.5 | You had to be engaged in the public sphere and not think only about yourself. |
| 1:54.5 | And to me, that just, that tastes good, that idea of manly. |
| 2:00.2 | And now when you ask what, you know, guys, like, what does it mean to be manly? |
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