Unfogging Male Friendship with Max Dickins—Comedian, Author, Friend

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Max Dickins thought he had a lot of friends… until he got engaged. When it came time to pick his best man, he stumbled into a shocking revelation: he didn’t have any male friends close enough to fill that role. This set him on a quest to understand how that happened, and to fix it. The lessons he learned about male friendship—why we need it, how to grow it, and what to do with it—just might change your life. It’s time we stopped settling for the lone wolf narrative. Find your pack, and thrive.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:20.9	You know, a lot of times we think about aggression.
0:23.9	It's just making really bold moves.
0:27.5	Maybe it's a physical challenge.
0:29.6	Maybe it's an occupational change.
0:32.5	Maybe it's a financial investment.
0:35.1	All those things are good.
0:36.4	All those things should be, we should have an
0:38.2	aggressive attitude towards. But what about friendship? I mean, friendship just sounds kind of soft.
0:44.2	It sounds soft, but it isn't soft. How many friends do you have? What is a friend? How did you
0:53.2	find your friends? The answer to questions like those
0:55.4	tends to be influenced by two factors. Your age and your gender. The older we get, the fewer
1:02.1	friends we all tend to have. And studies also routinely show that men are disproportionately more
1:09.6	lonely and isolated than their female counterparts. In fact,
1:13.1	one study found that nearly half of all men reported having no friends, zero, nada, none that they
1:21.6	felt comfortable discussing serious matters with things like money, work, or life health issues. You know, I believe the biggest
1:30.5	pandemic in the world, the longest running pandemic in the world, the most lethal pandemic in
1:37.5	the world is loneliness. And it's leaving a path of destruction in its wake, substance abuse, self-harm, mental health issues,
1:46.9	and that's where our guest comes in today.
1:48.8	I love what I have people on the aggressive life dirt who know more than me, which is about everybody.
1:53.9	Yeah, that's right.
1:55.4	It's about it.
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