How Introducing Challenge Gives Your Life Purpose

My adult life has been missing something competitive and challenging. As a kid, I faced challenge and competition through football, track, and basketball. Since graduating, I have found all sorts of hobbies, but nothing fit the bill.

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10 Things Masculine Men Don't Do

1. Don't Eat Soy Food

This has become a meme but trust the science. Food high in soy is wrecking your endocrine system. Soy and soy based products have been shown to lower testosterone levels

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On Hardship

Why do we make our lives so easy? Humanity has never had it so easy.

If you really want to, you can go all day without experiencing hardship.

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The Secret Formula to Achieving Freedom

For most of your twenties, you will feel stuck on the hedonic treadmill. What does this mean? I’ll explain in this article.

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6 Ways to Change Your Life

You might be stuck in a dead-end job or wasting your own time playing video games or watching Netflix every night. If you aren’t where you want to be in life, change up your routine.

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Why Are Testosterone Levels Dropping

Men’s average sperm counts are down globally, and testosterone levels have plunged, while erectile dysfunction, is, cruelly, on the rise

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2020 Recap for Path To Manliness

I started 2020 sick with Covid-19. I woke up on New Year’s Day feeling like I had a hangover. Around 4pm I began to second guess this. The “hangover” lasted 10 days. There were days I could only get out of bed to slowly shamble to the bathroom. I lost 11 pounds in 10 days.

My First Ultra Marathon

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International Men's Day

Today is International Men’s Day but you wouldn’t know it by checking the mainstream male websites. GQ is bashing America and selling fashionable facemasks. Esquire is silent on IMD too. Though I’ll give them credit, they have a pretty good piece about the James Bond film, Goldeneye. AskMen is trying to sell you more junk you don’t need.

The lack of good manliness websites is why I created Path To Manliness.

How Did International Men’s Day Start?

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Is There Anything Wrong With Watching Sportsball?

Is there anything wrong with spending your time watching sportsball? Walk into a bar on any given Sunday and you’ll hear grown men shouting obscenities at professional athletes on big screen television. These manchildren, donning jerseys over their beer bellies will be ordering fried chicken wings while claiming that these athletes are lazy for not hustling more or are weak for not playing with a broken finger. Onions are still vegetables when fried right??

What is Sportsball?

Sportsball is a…

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33 Lessons I’ve Learned in 33 Years

1. Men Are Searching For Direction Young men feel lost and rudderless in modern life. They’re stuck pursuing a safe life they are supposed to live rather than the life they truly want.

2. The man who constantly fears society’s judgment is forever a slave. The man who is comfortable expressing his own crazy self is a free man.

The Life Changing Habit You Need to Start Today

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.”

- Steven King, On Writing

Writing saved my life. The powerful, yet simple habit has helped me get my life in order, network with like-minded people online and even inspire others online. To learn more about the writing process, I just finished reading On Writing by Steven King, which I highly recommend to all writers.

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Why Are Other People More Successful

It’s easy to walk into a gym and look at all the guys who are jacked and throwing giant weights up like they’re He-Man Master of the Gymnasium! But what you don’t see is how they started 10 years ago and had a baggy t-shirt on over a slender frame. It took dedication and effort to reach 1980s action figure levels of gainz.

You see others online starting their own business, e-commerce shop or other entrepreneurial venture. Since these people only show you the success, you get frustrated when your first idea doesn’t take off.

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How To Escape the Quarter Life Crisis

One of the biggest shocks to a man’s life is going from the fast-paced college life to the slower career life. Overnight you lose most of the close friends that you lived with, drank with and bonded with. It can even be depressing to see your youthful, energetic and optimistic classmates replaced with older, overweight and dull coworkers. This often leads to what is called, “A Quarter Life Crisis.”

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If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

In Fight Club, Jack (the Narrator) is mindlessly drifting from place to place via airports.

As he’s wondering through wherever, he ponders this question, “If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” There will be Fight Club spoilers in this post btw. Aside from having a complete mental breakdown and starting a cult of space monkeys, could you have a fresh new start by moving to a different place?

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How to Build a Better Routine

You don’t need the perfect routine. You need a better routine. Too many times, I see people let perfect be the enemy of good. They want to unlock the secret powers of some motivational guru like Gary Vee or a millionaire like Joe Rogan.

Do Young Men Need Direction in Their Lives?

Men Are Searching For Direction

Young men feel lost and rudderless in modern life. They’re stuck pursuing a safe life they are supposed to live rather than the life they truly want. And everything from school to parents to the media tell them to sacrifice their own fulfillment for the safe route. These men are then left to fend for themselves even if they find themselves disillusioned, depressed or angry.