The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness Podcast aims to deepen and improve every area of a man's life, from fitness and philosophy, to relationships and productivity. Engaging and edifying interviews with some of the world's most interesting doers and thinkers drop the fluff and filler to glean guests' very best, potentially life-changing, insights.
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- 1 GorgiasPlato · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 OdysseyHomer · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 RepublicPlato · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 What If Anger Is the Answer?Mike LeBlanc · 1× across 1 episode
Treat Your To-Do List Like a River, and Other Mindset Shifts for Making Better Use of Your Time
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Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Oliver Burkeman
he provised those mindset shifts in his new book meditations for mortals four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts ▶ tap to play from here
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkman
so we had you on back in twenty twenty one to talk about your book four thousand weeks time management for mortals ▶ tap to play from here
Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World
Hartmut Rosa
and he is trying to sort of do what in many ways all sorts of philosophers have been doing since forever which is to put language on whatever it is that really makes life feel vivid and alive and worth living and his argument is basically that what we as individuals and also as whole civilizations you know attempt to do by default is to get more and more control over time and space and this is obvious pretty obvious in the context of kind of you know mainstream productivity culture ▶ tap to play from here
Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Faith Beyond After Christendom
Andrew Root
and he wrote a book called congregation in a secular age applying rose's framework ▶ tap to play from here
Why It's Okay to Mind Your Own Business
Brandon Warmke
we had a a podcast guest a professor of philosophy brandon warfke who wrote a book why it's okay to mind your own business ▶ tap to play from here
The New Dark Ages — The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
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The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
James Marriott
his name is james marriott and he's a columnist at the times of london and the author of the new dark ages the death of reading the dawn of the post literary society ▶ tap to play from here
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Jonathan Rose
the book that i mentioned is a great book by jonathan rose the intellectual life of the british working classes ▶ tap to play from here
Orality and Literacy
Walter Ong
one of the arguments of his book orality and literacy is that there are whole spheres of human knowledge and whole ways of thinking that only exist because of reading and writing ▶ tap to play from here
Beowulf
Unknown
oral epics like the iliad but there are examples in other cultures beowulf ▶ tap to play from here
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
one of the writers you mentioned in the book that talked about the effect that watching screens was having on us was a guy named neil postman wrote a book amusing ourselves to death ▶ tap to play from here
Bowling Alone
Robert Putnam
i think the statistic that uh robert putnam has in his his book bowling alone is that i think it's between the nineteen seventies and nineteen nineties ▶ tap to play from here
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
and in walter isaacson's biography of steve jobs he has this moment where he goes to steve jobs' house ▶ tap to play from here
The Lost Art of Mingling: How to Talk to Anyone, Anywhere
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The Art of Mingling
Jeanne Martinet
here to help us get more confident and comfortable in this area is gene martinette author of the art of mealing which is out in a newly updated edition ▶ tap to play from here
The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Nick Gray
we had a guy on the podcast who wrote a book that called the two hour cocktail party and he has this whole idea of hosting cocktail parties ▶ tap to play from here
Brandon Flowers, Frontman of the Killers, on Family, Faith, and Becoming a Thrasher
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The Pastures of Heaven
John Steinbeck
and then steinbeck has one called pastors of heaven yeah that's a great book ▶ tap to play from here
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
i remember you know i g i got the we got the pe we read the pearl okay yeah fifth grade so that was my intro you know my gateway into that ▶ tap to play from here
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
and then you know you get like you read like on the road and you think you're supposed to read the beats you know that kind of beat poetry stuff ▶ tap to play from here
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
and then i was like oh lonesome dove and then comanche moon ▶ tap to play from here
Comanche Moon
Larry McMurtry
and then i was like oh lonesome dove and then comanche moon ▶ tap to play from here
Dead Man's Walk
Larry McMurtry
and so far i think it's called dead man's walk is it's i'm waiting for it to kick in ▶ tap to play from here
Silence, Solitude, Stillness: The Spiritual Disciplines We Need in a Noisy World
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Into the Quiet
John Mark Comer
his name is john mark comer and he's a pastor and the author of into the quiet ▶ tap to play from here
Practicing the Way
John Mark Comer
you explored this in your book practicing the way ▶ tap to play from here
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal Newport
cal newport has a beautiful book on digital minimalism and he has a chapter in there on solitude ▶ tap to play from here
A Time to Keep Silence
Patrick Leigh Fermor
he wrote a book called a time to keep silence and it's about him staying in monasteries ▶ tap to play from here
Why Modern Convenience Feels So Inconvenient
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Against Convenience
Gabe Bullard
his name is gabe bollard and he's the author of against convenience ▶ tap to play from here
The One-Skill-a-Year Plan for a More Interesting Life
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The Invisible List: One Passion a Year, Every Year
Ravi Gupta
ravi gupta welcome to the show excited to be here so you got a new book out called the invisible list we're gonna talk about what the invisible list is today ▶ tap to play from here
The Invisible List: One Passion a Year, Every Year
Ravi Gupta
so you got a new book out called the invisible list we're gonna talk about what the invisible list is today ▶ tap to play from here
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Gabriel Wyner
so for instance in languages there's this great book called fluent forever all about learning languages ▶ tap to play from here
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Gabriel Wyner
in languages there's this great book called fluent forever all about learning languages ▶ tap to play from here
The 3-Step System for Simplifying Your Work and Life
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Simplify
Jim Vandehey
his name is jim vandehey and he's the cofounder and ceo of axios and the coauthor of simplify ▶ tap to play from here
Smart Brevity
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz
the first book we had did was smart brevity about how to write smarter and quicker and in a more efficient way ▶ tap to play from here
If I Don’t Return: A General's Wartime Journal for His Sons
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If I Don't Return
Mark Hertling
so you got a book out called if i don't return ▶ tap to play from here
The Battle of Duffer's Drift
Ernest Dunlop Swinton
there are a couple of books on various battles one called the battle of duffers drift ▶ tap to play from here
To Change Yourself, Change Your Situation
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Situated, Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best
Angela Duckworth
angela whose latest book is situated find the people and places that bring out your best shares how our environments play a much bigger role in shaping us than we realize ▶ tap to play from here
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
to discuss your book grit ▶ tap to play from here
The Lost Virtue of Thumos (And Why Men Need It)
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What If Anger Is the Answer?
Mike LeBlanc
his name is mike leblanc he's a decorated marine a harvard business school grad tech founder and the author of the what if anger is the answer ▶ tap to play from here
Republic
Plato
the most popular one and the most well known one is the one from i think it's the republic the chariot ▶ tap to play from here
Odyssey
Homer
there's a part i think in the odyssey where odysseus says that he sort of reasons with his or he ponders evils in his thumos ▶ tap to play from here
The Secrets of Supercommunicators
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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg
charles doohid calls these folks super communicators and he's the author of a new book by the same name ▶ tap to play from here
Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg
so last time we had you on was back in 2016 uh to talk about your book smarter faster better ▶ tap to play from here
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
we've also had you on to talk about the power of habit and the habit loop ▶ tap to play from here
The Joy of Touching Grass (and Knobs, Buttons, and Boarding Passes)
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The Small Stuff
Ian Bogost
his name is ian bogost and his new book is the small stuff ▶ tap to play from here
Big P vs. Little P Purpose — Why You Don't Need to Find Your One True Calling
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The Purpose Code
Jordan Grummet
my guest jordan grummet author of the purpose code says that the search for what he calls big p purpose can be fruitless and even harmful ▶ tap to play from here
The White Coat Investor
Jim Dahle
his name was jim dally the white coat investor he had just written a book about personal finances for physicians and he wanted me to review it for my blog ▶ tap to play from here
Taking Stock: What the Dying Can Teach Us About Money and Life
Jordan Grummet
and so that really led me to write a book called taking stock what the dying can teach us about money and life ▶ tap to play from here
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware
if you've ever read bronny ware's five regrets of the dying she makes the point she gives five regrets in her experience as a palliative care nurse but one of them is regretting not being a truer version of yourself ▶ tap to play from here
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The Healthcare Heist
Jordan Grummet
taking stock is the first the purpose code is the second and just recently i wrote about our healthcare system called the healthcare heist ▶ tap to play from here
Restless, Rooted — What the Odyssey Reveals About Americans' Divided Souls
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Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville
for those who aren't familiar with tocqueville's democracy in america what were some of his observations about the american personality ▶ tap to play from here
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
you might think of m books like you know jack kerak's on the road bold explorers ▶ tap to play from here
The Secret Skills of Master Negotiators
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Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher and William Ury
fisher roger fisher the guy who wrote getting the s was the main instructor ▶ tap to play from here
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
bob cieldini he was at university of arizona had a wonderful book that i recommend to all your listeners called influence ▶ tap to play from here
Start with No
Jim Camp
there's a guy jim camp who wrote a very interesting book it's called start with no ▶ tap to play from here
The Art of Easy Discipline
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Easy Discipline
Jia Jiang
his name is zha zhang and in his new book easy discipline ▶ tap to play from here
Good to Great
Jim Collins
jim call us he he wrote his um like an amazing book uh good to great ▶ tap to play from here
Beyond Midlife Myths — Why Middle Age Can Be Your Prime Time
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Primetime: New vision for midlife
Margie Lachman
her name is margie lockman and she's a professor of psychology the director of the lifespan lab at brandeis university and the author of primetime new vision for midlife ▶ tap to play from here
Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Gail Sheehy
one of the most well known ways that we see it popularized was with gail shee's book passages where she called the transition at different ages especially age forty as a predictable crisis ▶ tap to play from here
The Seasons of a Man's Life
Daniel Levinson
didn't um there's again another book came out around that time uh daniel levinson's book the seasons of a man's life ▶ tap to play from here
George Washington — The Man Behind the Monument
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American Patriarch
HW Brands
here to unpack that life for us is hw brands historian and the author of a new biography of washington american patriarch ▶ tap to play from here
The Retirement Trap — Should You Really Stop Working at 65?
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Let's Retire Retirement
Derek Coburn
his name is derek coburn he's a financial advisor and the author of let's retire retirement ▶ tap to play from here
Family Board Meetings
Jim Shields and Jamie Shields
jim and jamie shields that's in their book family board meetings is the first time i heard of this ▶ tap to play from here
Originals
Adam Grant
and adam grant in his book originals i think talked a little bit about looking at entrepreneurs ▶ tap to play from here
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