The Five Marks of a Man - Live in Cincinnati (2022)

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

There are 15 year-old men and 45 year-old boys. What separates the two isn’t age, but the five marks—five things that all men do, and all boys avoid. Recorded live in front of a packed house of athletes and their coaches, Brian shares these marks, as well as new perspectives on how they apply in the life of every man.

Have a young man in your orbit? Listen to this episode together, then use the discussion questions below to dig deeper.

The Five Marks of a Man: (1) Men have a vision. (2) Men take a minority position. (3) Men are team players. (4) Men work. (5) Men are protectors.

Discussion questions:

Men bring value to their teams. What teams are you a part of (sports, family, work, friends) and what value are you bringing to them? Are they better because you’re a part of the team?
Which mark do you feel strongest in?
Encourage each other: which mark do you see on display in the other person?
Which mark do you feel weakest in? What can you do about that this week?
Who is someone you know that is strong in the mark you feel weakest in? What can you learn from observing them? Could you set up time with them soon to pick their brain about it?
What’s the most surprising thing you heard?
Men are active. What challenge or insight from this talk can you put into action this week? Name it, then go do it.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life. So glad you're with us. It's summertime. And here we are in the month of July. And we're going to go off script. We're going to take a short break from interviews to bring you some of my favorite and freshest live teaching from the year. I'm not saying it's any good. You might think it sucks. But actually, we're going to
0:37.9	just play some things I've said to some groups of people. And there's some aggressive stuff in
0:42.9	there. And I hope it'll help you. You'll have the chance to hear teaching from a live event in
0:47.1	Colorado, an event for athletes in Cincinnati, a talk from couples camp, which is a primitive
0:53.6	weekend experience to build into
0:55.7	marriage and a bunch more. There's, there's an energy with a crowd, and I love being with
1:02.0	somebody in the studio, and I'm mostly wanting to hear them talk, and I have heard from people
1:06.3	say, yeah, we'd like to hear you talk a little more. Well, month of July is your time.
1:13.2	It's all me all the time.
1:20.4	These things are designed to help get you to a new place. They're aggressive and they're help to get you a moving.
1:26.0	So we'll start with a live event this year for a bunch of student athletes in Cincinnati.
1:32.0	I got to share with the stage with a member of the soon-to-be Super Bowl-bound Cincinnati Bengals and shared the five marks for a man with these athletes and these coaches.
1:38.5	That's a book that I wrote a couple years ago that's still selling well.
1:41.9	It's helpful for a lot, a lot of guys and and a lot of women who want to understand their guys,
1:45.7	and a lot of women who are going,
1:48.2	hmm, before I say yes to this marriage proposal,
1:52.6	am I being proposed to by a man or by a boy?
1:59.1	So while I still believe it's harder to be a female in America than it is a male, there's no doubt that men are hurting.
2:06.7	And I hope that the five marks can change some of our cultural conversations around masculinity.
2:12.7	Enough prologue.
2:14.0	Let's get to our first live talk of the summer, the five marks of a man.
2:24.4	Hey, mine's Brian's home.
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