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

Connor Beaton here.

Today, we are going to be talking about the great man theory.

And instead of talking about who the great men throughout human history are, I'm going to

be giving you a guide to the men that are worth

studying and kind of form a case for why you should study them and how to go about

identifying this and really taking a deeper understanding of how the men that you have admired

throughout your life have fundamentally formed your view. Because the truth is that

your choices, your choice of heroes might be one of the most important decisions that you will

ever make. Now, why is this? Well, it's because when you look back throughout human history,

men's choices of heroes have fundamentally shaped the way that they have perceived reality and their

actions, right? Because Napoleon spent his life trying to become Caesar. And Caesar idolized

Alexander the Great. And Alexander the Great imagined himself to be the next Achilles. So all of these men were being heavily

influenced by the men that came before them. And one might argue that in today's climate and times,

the reason why so many men are in disarray is that there is a kind of collapse of masculine

architecture that one could look up to, masculine idols,

masculine models that men can point to and say, actually, I want to move in that direction.

That's a noble, worthy aim for me to try and achieve.

And this is not random admiration that men throughout history have had.

This is a kind of limitation across the centuries. So not a limitation, a kind of imitation

across the centuries. And it points to a little bit more of a controversial but powerful idea, in my opinion,

known as the Great Man Theory of History.

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