The Shadows Over Men's Hearts and How to Fight Them

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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There are a lot of unspoken challenges and hidden battles that men face in modern society. They often manifest themselves in a uniquely male malaise where a man feels apathetic, frustrated, cynical, and lost. Jon Tyson has thought a lot about the problems men face and has been on the ground trying to help them as a pastor in New York City. In today's episode, I talk to Jon about the sources of this male angst that he explores as the co-author of a new book, Fighting Shadows: Overcoming 7 Lies That Keep Men From Becoming Fully Alive. Jon and I discuss how men often try to solve their malaise and why those approaches don't work. We then explore some of the shadows men fight in their lives, including the shadows of despair, loneliness, unhealthy ambition, futility, and lust. Jon offers some advice to overcome these shadows, including sitting around a fire pit with your bros, taking time to develop your telos or aim as a man, and injecting a bit more playfulness in your life to counteract grumpy dad syndrome.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness
0:10.3	Podcast there are a lot of unspoken challenges in hidden battles that face men in modern society. on frustrated, cynical, and lost.
0:23.4	John Tyson has thought a lot about the problems men face
0:25.9	and has been on the ground trying to help them as a pastor in New York City.
0:29.1	In today's episode, I talked to John about the sources of this male angst
0:32.1	that he explores as the co-author of a new book,
0:34.7	Fighting Shadows, overcoming seven lies that keep men from becoming fully alive.
0:39.5	John and I discuss how men often try to solve their Malays and why those approaches don't work.
0:44.0	We then explore some of the shadows men fight in their lives, including the shadows of despair,
0:48.4	loneliness, unhealthy ambition, futility, and lust.
0:52.3	John offers some advice to overcome these shadows
0:54.3	including sitting around a fire pit with your bros, taking time to develop your telos or
0:58.6	aim as a man and ejecting a bit more playfulness in your life to counteract grumpy dad syndrome.
1:04.0	At the show.
1:18.6	All right, John Tyson, welcome back to the show.
1:21.6	Gidda, mate, how's it going going thank you for having me back on always a
1:24.3	joy to chat oh well always a pleasure we had you on last time to talk about the five
1:28.7	shifts of manhood as part of a program you do you got a new book out that you co-authored. It's called
1:34.4	Fighting Shadows Overcoming Seven Lives that Keep Men from Becoming Foley Alive.
1:40.0	You've done a lot of work around mentoring and guiding young men into manhood.
1:45.2	We've had you on the podcast to talk about that, sort of the rights of passage that you've developed
1:49.9	for your own son, then have also helped other men do with their their boys. This book is
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