Head, Heart, and Hands: The Trifecta of Manliness | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Friday Field Notes, Ryan Michler explores what it means to be a comprehensive man, introducing a framework of head, heart, and hands—logic, empathy, and action. Reflecting on his own tendencies and biases, Ryan challenges listeners to identify their strengths and weaknesses across these dimensions.
Through personal anecdotes, including a friend’s loss and a poignant Iron Council call, he emphasizes the need for balance to lead effectively in family, business, and community. Ryan invites feedback as he refines this model, urging men to round out their approach to become who they’re meant to be.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
- 00:30 - Introducing the Comprehensive Man
- 02:54 - Head, Heart, and Hands Framework
- 05:13 - Strengths and Weaknesses of Each Type
- 07:22 - Adapting to the Moment
- 09:33 - Pros and Cons of Each Dimension
- 11:58 - Reflecting for Growth
- 14:27 - Leading with Purpose
- 16:28 - Call to Action
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| 0:00.0 | And if you want to be better, you can double down on the things that you're good at, |
| 0:04.0 | but I think there's a moment of reflection where we start to think about what can we shore up that we've never considered before. |
| 0:11.0 | We really ought to consider this model. Head, heart and hands, logic, empathy, and action. |
| 0:18.0 | What kind of man are you? Where did that come from? Who did you learn that from? |
| 0:22.5 | When has it served you? When is it not served you in order to be more effective in your life? |
| 0:30.0 | Man, I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be more holistic man. My good friend Jason |
| 0:36.4 | Wilson wrote a book called The Man the Moment Demands. And not only |
| 0:40.3 | in this book, but other books that he's written and things that he's shared, he's talked about |
| 0:46.0 | becoming a more comprehensive man is the term that he uses. And I've realized this in my own life |
| 0:52.0 | that I often fall in a black and white thinking. I often have this in my own life that I often fall into black and white thinking. |
| 0:55.5 | I often have this potentially even limited view of what it means to be a man and what masculinity is. |
| 1:01.1 | And I think most of us can agree to some extent that we naturally gravitate towards one facet of masculinity over others. |
| 1:10.0 | And I think that if we are to be the men that our children |
| 1:13.4 | need us to be, that the loves of our lives need us to be, that community members and even |
| 1:18.5 | strangers need us to be countrymen as well, then we are to round out our perception of what |
| 1:26.2 | it means to be a man. And I've been thinking a lot about this over the |
| 1:29.6 | past couple of weeks. And I had this thought just the other day that there's three main components. |
| 1:35.6 | And I work really well under frameworks. If I have a framework for what it means to be a man or a |
| 1:41.1 | framework for what it means to be a good father or a framework for what it means to be a good father or a framework for what it |
| 1:44.4 | means to be a good entrepreneurship uh i'm more likely to follow that framework and that's why we |
| 1:49.9 | create tools and systems here inside order of man because they're just as much for me as anybody else |
| 1:56.0 | but the framework i started thinking about over the past couple of days for becoming a more |
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