So arguably one of the most important skills that you as a man can have, that you can commit to

developing, that you can learn how to hone within yourself, is the skill and the discipline of

learning how to think. And there's been many people, many philosophies, contemplative forms of religion that have looked at this, all the way from Aristotle and Seneca and Marcus Aurelius all the way up to, you know, the philosophies of Kant and modern day popular authors like David Foster Wallace.

If you're not familiar with David Foster Wallace, he wrote some books.

You wrote one called Infinite Just. It's quite large. It's quite in depth. But he also is very well

known for a speech at a university called This is Water. And in that speech, he talks about learning how to think.

Here's the reason why I believe this is so important.

Mostly because for you as a man,

you will likely have grown up in an environment

where you've been told that your capacity

to logically make sense of things, to be rational,

to have a logical and a rational mind and mindset is of high importance.

And there's nothing to devalue that, right?

The rational and logical mind can be quite important

within our daily functioning. Things like the intuitive mind, your gut, your intuitive intelligence

is incredibly important as well. There's a very famous quote by Albert Einstein that says

the rational mind is a faithful servant and the intuitive mind is a sacred gift. And we have

built a culture that has forgotten the gift and honors the servant.

And so in some ways what Einstein is saying is, you know, your rational mind is the servant

to your intuitive mind. But that doesn't mean that we should not learn how to use it effectively,

especially because for many of us, the rational mind can be a

conduit to understanding our intuitive mind. And for the majority of you out there watching this,

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