Your Apathy is Your Undoing | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this Friday Field Notes episode, Ryan Michler challenges men to stop drifting through life and confront the apathy holding them back. He breaks down the five core actions that help men regain direction, eliminate complacency, and move with purpose. Ryan speaks candidly about distraction, burnout, and his own past patterns of escape, giving listeners a direct path to clarity and discipline. This episode offers a clear call for men to reclaim their focus, cut the noise, and commit to what actually matters. A powerful, practical reminder for anyone who feels stuck or overwhelmed.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Introduction
00:22 Burnout and rising apathy
01:54 Why men are giving up
03:40 Know what you want
06:10 Delegate what drains you
08:45 Remove energy draining people
11:23 Go deep, not wide
14:50 Ryan's story of sedation
16:06 Stop escaping your life
18:34 Final message and call to action
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, you're not going to sedate yourself anymore. You're going to sit in it. You're going to |
| 0:04.1 | eliminate things. You're going to get rid of toxic people. You're going to learn how to shut it down. |
| 0:08.3 | You're going to learn how to know what you want, not what other people want you to want. If you do these things, then you don't have to get drunk. You don't have to get high. You don't have to escape your life because you're excited about the relatively few things you're doing, |
| 0:22.0 | not apathetic about the incredible amount of things that you're quote unquote supposed to do. |
| 0:29.3 | I recently saw a statistic that upwards of 40% of men in the workforce are feeling burned out. |
| 0:36.5 | And of those 40% of men who are feeling burned out, |
| 0:39.9 | up to 83% of them are suggesting that it is negatively impacting their personal and professional |
| 0:47.4 | relationships. Guys, this is a problem. And I think the problem stems from the level of apathy that I see in so many men |
| 0:55.8 | because we are overly inundated and bombarded with marketing and information and social media |
| 1:03.6 | accounts and entertainment and everything else that comes into our feed on this stupid little |
| 1:08.7 | device that is incredible, but also very damaging and destructive |
| 1:13.0 | if we don't know how to utilize the tool correctly. It's the same thing as a hammer. What an |
| 1:19.3 | incredible tool. We can hammer an ail in. We can frame a house. We can build incredible things. |
| 1:24.9 | And we can also smash our thumb thumb and we can also crack somebody over |
| 1:29.3 | the skull with it and it can become very dangerous unless we know how to temper and harness and |
| 1:35.0 | use the tool correctly this is a problem your apathy is a problem i'm seeing this trend |
| 1:42.3 | continue to rise continue to increase and i'm seeing young trend continue to rise, continue to increase, and I'm seeing |
| 1:46.0 | young men who are fed up, who are frustrated, who don't believe they can get ahead. They don't |
| 1:51.3 | believe that the government is going to help them, which is not. They don't believe people are after |
| 1:56.5 | their best interest, which they're not, and they're giving up. Guys, that is a problem. Your |
| 2:02.7 | apathy is your undoing. And I don't care if you're a 18, 19, 20 year old young man trying to |
| 2:08.4 | make it in the world, or if you're a 40, 50, 60 year old man who has done work for decades |
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