You cannot win if you are not willing to lose.

Risk taking is the masculine DNA, or it's in the DNA, I should say.

When you remove risk, you also remove growth.

You remove the factors that build your character. And a man who has never risked anything,

I don't think has really ever lived his life fully. Here's a question that nobody is asking out loud.

What if the economic system that you have been told by the government and by the

media to hate is actually one of the most masculine forms of economies ever invented?

And what if everything that the free market demands of you? It's the risk, the accountability,

the competition, the grind, the competition, the grind, the failure,

the rebuilding, if necessary, is exactly what turns a boy into a man. And what if the push

towards socialism and communism isn't really compassion as it's packaged. It isn't progress. It isn't some

enlightened evolution, but it's a slow, quiet surrender of everything that makes you and me a man.

I want you to think about that for a second. We are living through, quite honestly, it's a crisis of masculinity.

When I talked about this 10 years ago, people scoffed at it and now people see it.

Men are checking out. They're disengaged from work. They're separating from purpose. They're lost.

And at the exact same time, we're watching a generation of men get sold on the idea that the answer is less personal responsibility. It's less competition. It's less risk. And that the government, big daddy government, should flatten or level the playing field and guarantee the outcome for millions of

Americans. That comfort in your life is automatically a right and that any sort of struggle

in your life is automatically the enemy. But guys, you know this as well as I do.

Struggle isn't the enemy.

Struggles the point.

It always has been.

Every man who ever built something, a business, a family, a legacy for himself, did it by walking into that arena that

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