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Skydiving from Space Part II: Nick Piantanida’s “Magnificent Failure”
“Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson The story of Nick Piantanida is...
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Lessons in Manliness from Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini. “The Handcuff King.” “The Man Who Walked Through Walls.” Master Magician. Escape Artist Extraordinaire. Almost a century has passed since his death, and Houdini, who was the most famous...
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Lessons in Manliness from Atticus Finch
When it comes to manly characters in literature, my thoughts always return to one man: Atticus Finch. Perhaps this character from To Kill a Mockingbird seems like an unusual choice. A gentleman in a...
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The Napping Habits of 8 Famous Men
A few weeks ago, we covered the myriad of amazing benefits provided by the too-oft maligned nap. If you’re still not convinced of the benefits of napping and are in need of some additional...
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Lessons in Manliness from Bass Reeves
Who was the greatest Deputy U.S. Marshal of the Old West? Wyatt Earp? Wild Bill Hickok? How about Bass Reeves? Bass who? Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves was arguably the greatest lawman and gunfighter...
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Lessons in Manliness from The Old Man and the Sea
“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...
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Leadership Lessons from Ernest Shackleton
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Lessons in Manliness from Charles Atlas
© Charles Atlas, LTD “Let Me Prove in 7 Days That I Can Make You a New Man!” “The Insult That Made a Man Out of Mac” “Hey, Skinny! Yer Ribs Are Showing!” It’s an ad the majority of readers out there...
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Lessons in Manliness from Friday Night Lights
There aren’t too many television shows out there that portray men in a positive light these days. Men on sitcoms are usually dimwitted doofuses or cartoonishly macho. It’s not much better on TV...
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Lessons in Manliness from Dante
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Andrew Ratelle. “I see man’s mind cannot be satisfied unless it be illumined by that truth beyond which there exists no other truth.” - Paradiso IV.124-126....
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Cato: Lessons From a Self-Made Man
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni, co-authors of Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato. Cato the Younger—the great Roman soldier, senator, and Stoic—was a...
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Lessons in Manliness: The Hobbit
The Hobbit has been a favorite of children and adults alike since its publication in 1937. It used to take a backseat to The Lord of the Rings, but with the movie being released last summer, interest...
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Lessons in Manliness from Andrew Jackson
“I was born for a storm and a calm does not suit me.” While his countenance graces our $20 bill, many Americans do not know much about the life of Andrew Jackson. He is often remembered as the hero of...
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Lessons in Unmanliness from Victor Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein does not get much attention in popular culture. It is Frankenstein’s creation – a nameless monster (often mistakenly called Frankenstein) – in all his green, bumbling glory that...
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4 Lessons in Manliness from Louis Zamperini
Sometimes stories are so slender that to become movies, Hollywood has to generously pad and exaggerate the scanty details. In the case of the current effort to bring the life of Louis Zamperini to the...
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Lessons In Manliness from Fight Club
“The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.” Today we’re gonna break the first rule with aplomb. Hey, everyone else does too. Though it came out a decade and a half ago, the...
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Viking Mythology: What a Man Can Learn From Odin
When one hears the word “Viking,” it almost instantly conjures images of brawny warriors wielding fierce swords, riding in waves of long ships to pillage and plunder unsuspecting villages. It’s an...
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Viking Mythology: What a Man Can Learn From Thor
Thor — Giant-Slayer and God of Thunder — is the most well-known Norse god in our modern world. The Marvel comic books and films have of course spurred his fame, but they’ve also hampered our...
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Viking Mythology: What a Man Can Learn From Tyr
So far in this series we’ve taken an in-depth look at both Odin and Thor. We’ve been through their stories, and figured out some ways in which their mythological examples can help men be better men....
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Lessons from the Sioux in How to Turn a Boy Into a Man
“The Indian, in his simple philosophy, was careful to avoid a centralized population, wherein lies civilization’s devil. He would not be forced to accept materialism as the basic principle of his...
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