Welcome to The Man Talk Show.

I'm Connor Beaton.

And this midweek mini episode, this end of the year episode,

is brought to you by nature.

So that was a pretty bad, dad joke.

But I'm basically, I'm sitting outside right now.

And I wanted to bring this last episode of the year

to you out in nature. And so I'm sitting outside so you might

hear some birds. I apologize in advance for maybe the lack of audio quality, but you get to hear

some calming nature. So we're going to do a couple of things today on this episode. One, I'm going to

read a poem to you by Ruddyard kipling that i really

like and feel like it sort of encapsules what we need right now what we as men need right now

what we as human beings need right now and then i'm going to talk a little bit about recapping your

year and what you can do

or how you can approach finalizing this year. And so if you're looking for a tool and a resource,

definitely check out the shadow work guide. It's my website you can also go to man talks on

instagram and download the free shadow work journal um i created it just for you it's a lot of people

a few thousand people actually have already picked it up and so it might be a good tool for you to

just find a deep level of self-discovery while you end off this year. So let's get into the

poem. The poem is called If by Rudyard Kipling. If you can keep your head when all about you

are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

but make allowances for their doubting too.

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