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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Most men think the X Factor - that magnetic presence of strong, capable men - is something you're born with. It's not. It's built through five rules that any man can follow.
In this Friday Field Note, Ryan Michler breaks down the simple, actionable formula that will make you more influential, bold, and courageous - and help you create the life and relationships you want.
The 5 Rules Every Man Must Follow:
Be Strong - build the trifecta: physical, mental, and emotional strength
Be Emotionally Stable - create safety and calm for your family and team
Be Kind - true kindness comes from power, not weakness
Be Discerning - not everyone deserves your time or vulnerability
Be Courageous - take action even when you're scared
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:
00:00 - What Is the X Factor?
00:30 - The Myth of the X Factor
02:58 - Rule #1: Be Strong
07:18 - Rule #2: Be Emotionally Stable
11:11 - Rule #3: Be Kind
13:20 - Rule #4: Be Discerning
18:04 - Rule #5: Be Courageous
24:15 - The Iron Council Promo
24:50 - Closing Challenge
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| 0:00.0 | If there's a difficult conversation that you need to have, I'm afraid, I'm scared, I'm worried, then you're being a loser. |
| 0:07.8 | You're not being the man that you can be. |
| 0:09.7 | Now there's a right and wrong way to do it. |
| 0:11.6 | You can have those conversations with kindness to go back to point number three. |
| 0:15.7 | You can have those conversations with discernment to go back to point number four. |
| 0:20.1 | But if you can't have a real conversation |
| 0:22.2 | with the way that, with your wife about the way that she's showing up or with your employee |
| 0:26.7 | about the way that they're performing or underperforming, what kind of man are you? |
| 0:33.1 | Men, we all know that guy who is strong, who is capable, who is successful, who is bold, |
| 0:40.5 | who is courageous, who has the life, who has the income, who has the wealth, who has the |
| 0:45.0 | connections, who has all of the things that you and I want as men. And most of us chalked that |
| 0:51.5 | up to the X factor. That guy has it. That guy has the X factor. You can feel it when the guy walks in the room. There's a palpable difference in the way that the people around him communicate, how they respond, how they react, how they behave. |
| 1:11.5 | And while most of us spend our times spinning our wheels about how that man has this unattainable X factor, |
| 1:22.4 | it really is a very simple formula that too many men in my summation in my analyzing this over a decade of doing |
| 1:34.5 | this work have overlooked and the X factor which is this mystical force that so many men just |
| 1:42.9 | have innately and that so many men can't obtain through their |
| 1:48.5 | efforts, it's not that at all. It's a very simple formula. It's a formula that you can incorporate |
| 1:54.4 | in your life to be more influential, to be more bold, to be more courageous, to have more |
| 2:00.5 | of what you want, to inspire others, |
| 2:03.6 | to achieve your dreams and your desires and your outcomes. |
| 2:08.5 | And there's really just about five things, five mindsets that you need to incorporate in your life |
| 2:14.9 | to have the type of life that you want, the relationship that you |
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