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Emotional Ledger
You work the long hours, handle the heavy mortgage, and pay for the family vacation. You take immense pride in being the guy who makes it all happen. But pay attention to how you act once the vacation actually starts. You sit on the periphery. You check emails, scroll...
“When Things Slow Down”
Listen to yourself over the next week. Pay attention to how many times you tell your partner, your kids, or yourself that you just need to get through this current sprint. "Once we get past this quarter at work." "Once the kids are a little older." "Once we get the...
On Brotherhood
Scroll through your phone right now and look at the text threads with the guys you consider your closest friends. For most of us, those conversations have become completely hollowed out. They are an endless, superficial stream of forwarded videos, sports predictions,...
Competing Against the Ghost
Most of us are walking around in quiet competition with a ghost. We carry a mental snapshot of a very specific version of ourselves: the untethered guy we were in our early twenties, the athlete before the injuries piled up, or the fiercely independent kid who had...
Closing the Loops
Most of the exhaustion we feel on a Friday evening has nothing to do with the actual physical or mental labor we performed that week. If we audit our energy, we usually find that we are exhausted from the sheer amount of bandwidth required to keep track of all...
The Hobby Cart Trap
There is a very specific trap we fall into when we decide to pick up a new skill or hobby. Long before we ever actually attempt the activity, we convince ourselves that we need the perfect equipment to start. If we decide to start hiking, we spend three weeks...
Our Emotional Survival
We pride ourselves on being self-reliant in almost every area of our lives, but most of us have a massive, glaring blind spot when it comes to our emotional survival. If we look closely at how we operate, our partner is usually the only person on earth who truly knows...
Receiving the Torch
There is a very specific, quiet moment in adulthood when we look around the room and realize we are no longer the kids at the table. We spend our twenties and thirties building our own lives, but we usually do it with a psychological safety net. Even after we sign the...
The Maintenance Phase of Adulthood
When we are younger, life is defined by massive milestones. We are constantly building. We are chasing the career, finding the partner, securing the house, and trying to get our feet underneath us. Every year brings a massive, noticeable shift in the landscape of our...