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WTF Is Men's Work? - Mark Groves, Sylvester McNutt, Jeremy Goldberg, Traver Boehm, Nick Onken, Dan Harrison, Mike Campbell, And Branden Collinsworth

ManTalks Podcast

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Is There a Connection Between Men and the Outer World?

"I think what one of the bigger pieces is that men are disconnected and we're disconnected from so much of the stuff that is important to us in our hearts," he says. "Like we don't feel our souls. We don't feel a connection to stories, to family, to myth, to history." He continues: "It's far easier for me to come home light up TikTok and spend an hour scrolling through videos of nonsense and and being captivated but undernourished" 'If you ever if you guys want to read another great book beyond Connor's is Richard Reeves. A boys and men. Thank you'

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And the reasons for that, there are people a lot smarter than me who can dive into. If you ever if you guys want to read another great book beyond Connor's is Richard Reeves. A boys and men.
Speaker 1
A boys and men. Thank you.
Speaker 2
Just just like the the 3D realistic reasons why culturally, why guys aren't doing as well as they can. But to me, that's less important. I think what one of the bigger pieces is that men are disconnected and we're disconnected from so much of the stuff that is important to us in our hearts and in our guts. Like we don't feel our souls. I don't want to get weird, but we don't feel the land beneath us. We don't feel a connection to stories, to family, to myth, to history. Like I think I project that these were the things that a lot of men leaned into and leaned against and drew drew upon in older times or in different times. Like who am I? Where did I come from? Like I don't I don't I've lived in 17 different places in the past 10 years. My family's my my men are from Germany. Like I think I spent 45 minutes in the Frankfurt airport. Like that's my connection to that piece, right? There isn't a story that I can lean into of like the bones, the men of the bone family, or even the myth of like what men in a lineage that I can even relate to did and who they were and and what they've passed down to me. And so I feel like a lot of men struggle with that. And that internal disconnection leads to even further disconnection in the modern day world and is perpetuated by the modern day world is supported by the modern day world is accentuated right we're all living on and I'm guilty living on phones where we don't have real connection to the outer world but most importantly now specifically to our own inner worlds. I think that's it's it's far easier for me to come home light up TikTok and spend an hour scrolling through videos of bullshit and nonsense and and being captivated but undernourished. And I can do that night after night week after week month after month and to the point where I'm like I'm I'm starved for anything real. And yet I don't have the first idea of where to go get something that's real.

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