All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show.

Connor Beaton here.

Today, we're going to be talking about one of the most important traits that you as a man

will need to develop, especially this year with chaos, with turmoil, with confusion, continuing to unfold in our world.

This is going to be the single masculine trait that is going to be so important for you and your life.

There, I think, really is one masculine trait that determines whether you as a man becomes

dangerous in a good way or dangerous and destructive

in a bad way. And it's not confidence, which a lot of us seek and pursue. It's not dominance.

And it's not even strength. It's self-control. It is the ability for you as a man to maintain some level of psychological,

physical, or emotional control. The truth that we all know, that women know, that we as men know,

is that self-control without repression, without numbing, and self-control specifically, and this is the key one for

many of you guys, without needing some external force or substance to rein you in, is incredibly

powerful and arguably at the heart and soul of what it means to be a masculine man.

And without it, everything masculine inside of you, your ambition, your aggression or anger,

your competitiveness, your sexuality as a man will eventually turn against you.

And not only this, but women will find it very hard to trust you. You see,

women have this distinct ability to feel and to detect a man who lacks self-control. And this is

usually what women are saying to you as a man when they're saying, oh, you're so emotional,

or you blow your lid all the time or, you know, why do you get so upset all the time?

What they're really saying is it's hard for me to feel like I can trust you when you are

constantly reactive. Now, even if you put those things aside, I think we could probably all agree that many men in our

culture and our society today are deeply, deeply confused. You know, on the one side,

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