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Keeping your temper is a skill, not a personality trait

The gap between what provokes you and what you do about it can be widened on purpose. Most men never try.

GuideBe a ManSam Ortiz22 Sept 20266 min

How to apologize so it actually counts

A real apology takes about twenty seconds and four parts. Most men have never been shown one, so they improvise, and the improvising is the problem.

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BRO TakeBe a ManMarcus Vale22 Sept 20266 min

Duty is what holds the rest of it up

Passion comes and goes. Duty is the standing order you keep when the feeling has left the building, and almost everything good sits on top of it.

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Be a Man5 min read

Masculinity is a job description, not a personality

Both sides of the argument have turned it into a look. It was always a list of duties you either meet or don't.

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GuideBe a ManMarcus Vale22 Sept 20266 min

Losing your temper is a habit, and habits can be unlearned

Anger arrives on its own. What you do in the six seconds after it arrives is entirely up to you, and it can be trained.

GuideBe a ManSam Ortiz22 Sept 20265 min

Most men have never given a real apology

The six parts of an apology that actually repairs something, the four counterfeits, and how to handle it when it isn't accepted.

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BRO TakeBe a ManMarcus Vale22 Sept 20266 min

Duty is unfashionable, and it holds everything up

Nobody builds a life on inspiration. They build it on showing up when they said they would, for people who are counting on it.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

BRO TakeBe a ManMarcus Vale22 Sept 20265 min

Masculinity is a job description, not an identity

Strip away the shouting from both sides and what's left is a short list of obligations you can either meet this week or not.

GuideLifeCal Brennan30 Sept 20266 min

Stop saying "we should get together" and pick a Tuesday

After forty, friendships don't die from fights. They die from scheduling. A standing weekly night fixes the one problem you actually have.

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GuideSportsSam Ortiz30 Sept 20266 min

Your Kid's First Game Should End Before They Want It To

The first live game has one job: making them beg for the second. What to bring, what to teach them to watch, and when to walk out.

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BRO TakeNewsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

Boys Are Falling Behind and the Numbers Aren't New

Commentary on the reading gap, the college gap, the discipline data and the one variable nobody in the district office wants to name.

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GuideLifeCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Take the job nobody wants and the purpose question goes quiet

Purpose isn't something you dig up by thinking harder. It's what's left over after you've shown up somewhere long enough for people to count on you.

GuideSportsMarcus Vale30 Sept 20266 min

Hand Your Kid a Pencil and Baseball Finally Makes Sense

A box score is a whole game folded into a few inches of type. Teach your kid to write one and you'll never lose them in the fifth inning again.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How to keep training when you've got 40 minutes and two kids

Three short sessions a week, five movements, and a deload you didn't plan. The program that survives a sick toddler is the one that works.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

Woodworking6 min

Three builds with your kids and who does what on each

Life5 min

Twenty books worth reading this year and how to finish them

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

What goes wrong in your thirties doesn't hurt yet

The things that take men out at fifty-five start quietly at thirty-four, and most of them are fixable in about three hours a week.

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Grooming5 min read

The first haircut, the first deodorant, the first shave

A stage-by-stage plan for handing a boy the job of taking care of himself, plus the three mornings he'll remember for the rest of his life.

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