All right, team, welcome back to the Man Talk Show.

I'm Connor Beaton, and today I'm going to be giving you five psychological pillars that you can deploy as a man from philosophical thinkers.

So we're going to be diving into some great philosophers

and the wisdom that they left us through their body of work.

Number four, pillar number four, which is a good one,

is kind of a mix of Das Dostoevsky and Nietzsche,

but it's really about how comfort is not meaning. Meaning will not

be found in comfort. And meaning is actually found through choosing suffering. And this is kind

of paradoxical in nature to, again, what what modernity what materialism will tell you what

modernity and materialism are really selling is that in comfort there's meaning in comfort there's

safety in comfort there's purpose um in pleasure there's fulfillment but if you look at the great philosophers,

and if you just look at your life,

that's almost very rarely the case, right?

Of course, there's meaning and fun and play

and going on vacation and enjoying yourself

and having a good time,

and it's not all about suffering, suffering, suffering.

But if you look at the great philosophers,

and let's talk about Dostoyevsky for a moment, he really showed that men would rather

suffer with meaning than live comfortably without it. They would rather suffer with meaning

than live comfortably without it. And I don't know about you, but I think that is fundamentally

true for me. I would rather

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