We live in the age of hollow men, men who are struggling to feel a deep sense of value and worth.

Men who are caught doom scrolling through social media, chronically comparing themselves to other people,

and apologizing for even existing, trying to build a sense of self-worth and value

from external validation, from likes online, from approval, from women and other people.

You see, if you grow up in a culture, which many of you

have, that constantly tells you that you're not needed or wanted, you begin to question whether

your value as a man is relevant or whether you should even bother doing the hard work to become a man who is valuable to the culture

that is actively rejecting you. Now, maybe that doesn't really matter to you, but maybe you grew

up in an environment like many of us have where you were told that there's something wrong with you,

that nothing you would ever do would be good enough,

that you'd never amount to anything, that you were dumb or stupid, or no matter what you did,

you'd bring home a 95% and all you would hear is where's the other 5%. Nothing was ever good enough.

Well, Nietzsche, the great philosopher of fire, believed that your worth,

that real worth as a man, doesn't come from being liked, from necessarily being safe or being

accepted. It comes from becoming worthy to yourself, worthy of yourself.

Nietzsche actually said, what is great in man

is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

What is great in man is he is a bridge and not a goal.

In other words, your value as a man

isn't something that you have.

It is something that you build. It is something that you build. It is something that you

construct through struggle, through pain, through becoming. Now, it took me a long time to realize this

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