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<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18312" title="#86 - fish - The Old Man and the Sea" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/07/old-man2.jpg" alt="" width="498" height="339" /> “Que va,” the boy said, “It is what a man must do.” “Success” is all too often assumed to be the indicator of the value of a man. But success, in and of itself, merely speaks to a particular status and may have nothing to do with the journey that the man took to get there, or whether or not he retained his integrity along the way. Among the many aspects of the story, it is the idea of redefining success and victory that makes The Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway’s classic novella, so profound.
Life Lessons from The Old Man and the Sea
In my post on the Switch of Nature , I contended that cynicism constitutes one of the greatest threats to manliness. There were a couple of comments in reply which argued that cynicism is not wholly unhealthy. And I agree; I did not mean that cynicism is always bad, rather that it is bad in unhealthy amounts. This selection, from a century’s old Atlantic Monthly article, does a nice job of explaining the need for balancing the strengths and weaknesses of this characteristic. From “CYNICISM,” 1904 By Arthur Stanwood Pier One of the seeming waywardnesses of our human nature is the respect for a cynic that lurks in nearly every heart.
Manvotional: Cynicism
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18252" title="home bar" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/07/home-bar.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="332" /> Editor’s note: This is a guest post from AoM reader Jeff Trexler. For the gentleman who enjoys entertaining, a properly stocked bar is a must. A well-mixed drink can help schmooze a boss, romance a date, and impress a friend. Mixing drinks at home for friends and family makes me feel like some swanky 1960s gentleman pouring drinks in his Space Age-inspired mid-century home. I love that feeling.
How to Stock a Home Bar
<img class="size-full wp-image-18210" title="1950s Laughing Teenage Couple Dancing To The Phonograph Playing 78 Rpm Records In Living Room" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/07/dance.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="395" /> Bonus #11: Impromptu living room dance party. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Joe Weber of Dappered.com.
10 Cheap Date Ideas She’ll Actually Love
Manvotional: The Know-It-All State of Mind
From “New Mexico,” 1928 By DH Lawrence Superficially, the world has become small and known. Poor little globe of earth, the tourists trot round you as easily as they trot round the Bois or round Central Park. There is no mystery left, we’ve been there, we’ve seen it, we know all about it.
Manvotional: Energetic Men
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7015" title="Vintage man working" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2009/11/vintagemanworking.jpg" alt="vintagemanworking" width="497" height="389" /> Energetic Men We love upright, energetic men. Pull them this way, and then that way, and the other, and they only bend, but never break. Trip them down, and in a trice they are on their feet.The 5 Switches of Manliness: Legacy
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17742" title="switch (1)" alt="" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/06/switch-1.jpg" width="500" height="375" /> We started the last post in this series with a surprising fact–that only about 33% of our ancestors were male. We’ll begin this post the same way:
The 5 Switches of Manliness: Nature
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18021" title="boy" alt="" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/06/boy.jpg" width="500" height="333" /> In this Switches of Manliness series, we’ve been talking about those unique parts of a man’s psyche that have fallen into disuse in the modern world and need to be reactivated. But there’s likely some overlap between the needs of men and the needs of women; for example, primitive women used to be quite physical too, and I think modern women need to have an element of physicality in their lives as well. But with this switch, there’s definitely more than a little overlap. The Switch of Nature is for everyone. Men.
Win the War on Debt: 80 Ways to Be Frugal and Save Money
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16898" title="fox" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/04/fox.jpg" alt="" width="367" height="483" /> The manliness of frugality cannot be overstated. Frugality cultivates the manly qualities of independence, self-reliance, self-sufficiency, simplicity, and minimalism.Creating and Consuming: How to Be Mature
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1767" title="sculptor" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2009/02/lester.jpg" alt="" width="398" height="258" /> After doing the podcast on the “ Making of Modern Immaturity ” a few months ago, and reading the comments left on that post, I got to thinking about this question: “What makes a man mature anyway?” Masculine maturity used to be easy to spot and define: a man got married, sired some progeny, and got a job to support his family.
<img class="s3-img aligncenter" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2009/06/journal.jpg" border="0" alt="journal.jpg" width="447" height="296" /> My grandpa, Bill Hurst, was a journal writer his entire life. His journal was quite simple. He just kept a small notebook in the pocket of his pearl snap shirts and jotted down a short description of the things he did and the people he did it with. This is something he did pretty much every day for his entire life. He also kept extensive diaries of his time as a forest ranger in the Wasatch Range.
How and Why to Start a Journal
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5 Items to Snap You Out of Your Digital Writing Routine
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-16998" title="convo2" src="http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads//2011/05/convo2.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="320" /> Last month I met up with an old friend I hadn’t seen in forever to have lunch. Having both read and written about how to be an effective and charismatic conversationalist, I followed the old dictum of listening more than talking and asking the other person engaging questions about themselves. This is supposed to charm your conversation partner.