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A Field Guide to Killing Monsters
Monsters have plagued our imaginations since the dawn of humanity, and over time we’ve developed some fairly specific ideas about how to deal with them. A…
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Podcast #1,139: The New Dark Ages — The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
You can’t help but notice, in yourself and in others, how much less people are reading these days. When it comes to content consumption, we’re…
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Why You Should Spend More Time in Graveyards
Unless for the express purpose of visiting a loved one’s grave, most people avoid spending time in cemeteries. They seem like gloomy, spooky, haunted places…
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How to Invite People to Do Things Without Being Awkward About It
You’ve talked to a cute barista at your favorite coffee shop for months, but you only see her when she’s working. You’ve become good buddies…
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Odds & Ends: October 23, 2026
Why your protein powder costs so much more now. Back in 2018, I wrote a guide to chugging whey as a cheap, low-hassle way to hit your protein goals. Whey…
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Podcast #1,138: The Lost Art of Mingling — How to Talk to Anyone, Anywhere
It’s always been intimidating to enter a room where you don’t know everyone, or anyone, and to initiate conversation with people at a wedding…
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No-Prep Meal Prep
A while back I wrote an article about what I eat in a day, and in it I talked about how I meal prep lunches for the week. Here’s the gist: on Saturday or…
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Carry the Fire
We’re going to be okay, arent we Papa? Yes. We are. And nothing bad is going to happen to us. That’s right. Because we’re carrying the fire. Yes. Because we’re…
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3 Great-Looking Watches That Cost Under $100
I’ve worn an Apple Watch for all but a few months here and there for the last decade. I can’t say I love it, but it’s dang convenient, and every time I try to…
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Podcast #1,137: Brandon Flowers, Frontman of the Killers, on Family, Faith, and Becoming a Thrasher
If you’ve been following the Art of Manliness for a while, you know that I typically interview the authors of books on this podcast. But, if you’ve…
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26 New Rules of Digital Etiquette
Back in 2013, we published a set of propaganda-style posters on cell phone etiquette. Some of the rules hold up, but a lot of them focused on talking over the…
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The 6 Fire Lays Every Man Should Know
Building a fire is one of the 100 skills every man should know. But every outdoor situation requires different types of campfire lays (set-ups in the…
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Odds & Ends: October 9, 2026
Riding the Rails Through Tulsa. I thought hobos riding the rails got left behind in the 1930s, but the tradition is still alive in 2026, and there’s a…
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Podcast #1,136: Silence, Solitude, Stillness — The Spiritual Disciplines We Need in a Noisy World
We live in a world of pervasive noise. Even when we’re alone and our surroundings are quiet, our devices bombard us with an endless stream of inputs…
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Field-Tested Advice for Time-Crunched Dads
A reader recently wrote in with a question I’ve gotten some version of dozens of times over the years. He’s a year into fatherhood, his wife is…
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The Best Western Movies Ever Made
Few figures in history have had as powerful an impact on American masculinity as the cowboy. While the mythologization of the cowboy began all the way back in…
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Odds & Ends: October 2, 2026
The Wind Beneath the Stone by David Keohan. For millennia, stone lifting was an important part of cultures around the world. It was not only a feat of…
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What Every Man Should Keep in His Glove Box
The glove box is basically your car’s junk drawer, accumulating this and that odd document or condiment packet over the course of months and even years…
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Podcast #1,135: Why Modern Convenience Feels So Inconvenient
Modern life is filled with conveniences designed to make things easier. We can order dinner without leaving the couch, check ourselves out at the grocery…
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7 Lessons from Yukio Mishima’s Sun and Steel
If you’ve got a philosophical bent and you like to lift weights, you’ve probably heard of Yukio Mishima. Mishima was one of history’s most interesting…
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36 Manly Smells
Smells can conjure up powerful memories. The smell of pine needles can take you back to childhood Christmases or the smell of a laundry detergent can remind…
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Odds & Ends: September 25, 2026
Salesman. My latest Criterion watch was this 1969 documentary, which follows four door-to-door salesmen from the Mid-American Bible Company as they work…
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The 5-Minute Habit That Will Reenergize Your Body and Mind
You’re surely familiar with the idea that humans spend a lot more time sitting than they used to. If you haven’t heard the statistics — the average American…
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Podcast #1,134: The One-Skill-a-Year Plan for a More Interesting Life
We all have things we’ve always wanted to know how to do, but have never gotten around to learning. Speak a foreign language. Play an instrument. Write a book…
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A Man’s Guide to the Raglan Tee
The raglan tee (or as most guys know it, the baseball tee) is a shirt with sleeves that contrast in color from the body. Those sleeves are its defining…
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Autofocus: The Productivity System That Treats Your To-Do List Like a River
In one of the emails Oliver Burkeman, author of Time Management for Mortals, sent out to his subscribers, he talked about how we typically treat our to-do…
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Odds & Ends: September 18, 2026
The virtual Criterion Closet. If you’ve been following along with me for a while, you know I’ve been on a quest to become a cinephile, which…
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Camping Etiquette: The Dos and Don’ts
When it comes to camping, there are rules you should follow to respect nature: don’t use even biodegradable soap in streams to avoid disrupting the…
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The Final Strenuous Life Enrollment of 2026 Is Now Open!
Hard as it may be to believe, we’re less than four months away from the end of 2026. If this year has gone by like many of the rest — starting with high…
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Podcast #1,133: The 3-Step System for Simplifying Your Work and Life
When people are faced with problems and complexity, our instinct is to add instead of subtract. As a result, we have a tendency to make our work and our lives…
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How to Handle Getting Rejected By a Woman
After weeks of friendly chats with the woman you keep running into at the coffee shop, you worked up the nerve to ask her out. She smiled, winced a little, and…
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100 Skills Every Man Should Know
It’s been fodder for many a heated debate among men for centuries. What skills should every man know? A vast amount of ink and e-ink has been…
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Odds & Ends: September 12, 2026
YouTube Update Video. While I used to regularly make videos for YouTube, I stopped ten years ago because I don’t like making videos. But I thought…
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What Is Manliness, Anyway?
Launching the redesign of the Art of Manliness has gotten me thinking about our history, and how my understanding of manliness has evolved, deepened, and…
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Welcome to the Redesigned AoM
Every five years or so, Kate and I get the itch to redesign the Art of Manliness. I don’t fully know where it comes from. After eighteen years of running…
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Podcast #1,132: If I Don’t Return: A General’s Wartime Journal for His Sons
When Mark Hertling learned he was deploying for Operation Desert Storm, he decided to start a journal. Back then, Mark was an Army major and cavalry officer…
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Odds & Ends: September 4, 2026
Harakiri. My latest Zone 2-watching, trying-to-become-a-film-buff movie was this 1962 Japanese samurai film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It’s one of the…
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A Field Guide to 8 Regional Burger Styles
Americans love hamburgers, and few foods have been interpreted in as many different ways. From Connecticut to Southern California and everywhere in between…
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Podcast #1,131: To Change Yourself, Change Your Situation
Professor of psychology Angela Duckworth is famous for her work on grit — the combination of passion and perseverance that leads to high achievement. But she’s…
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How My Grandpa Built a Big Life From Little Purposes
On a recent episode of the AoM podcast, I talked with Jordan Grumet, a hospice doctor and the author of The Purpose Code. In our interview, Jordan drew a…
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How to Make Yourself Easier to Talk To
In the two-way dance of social interactions, there’s plenty you can do to act smoothly yourself — from smiling and giving good eye contact, to asking good…
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Odds & Ends: August 28, 2026
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson. I’ve been on a real William James kick lately. I’m working on a…
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How to Make Protein Energy Balls (That Taste Like Cookie Dough)
Snacks are the bane of almost every attempt to eat well. Meals are easy enough to plan, and with a bit of seasoning or sauce of some kind, you can make almost…
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Podcast #1,130: The Lost Virtue of Thumos (And Why Men Need It)
  The ancient Greeks believed the human soul had three parts: reason, appetite, and something called thumos. Thumos is difficult to translate into…
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How to Get Back From Vacation
As summer winds down, folks are taking their last vacations before school is back in session (if it isn’t already) and fall arrives. When it comes to the…
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Are You Suffering From Soft Suburban Dad Syndrome? 50 Questions for Self-Examination
Years ago, I found myself at Kate’s ten-year high school reunion. As I surveyed the room of her former classmates, I noticed a dichotomy in the trajectories…
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Podcast #968: The Secrets of Supercommunicators
Note: This is a rebroadcast. Have you ever known one of those people who seemed to be able to connect with anyone? The kind of person who had the ability to…
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How Two World Wars Standardized the American Male Grooming Routine
Every morning in America, a lot of men stand in front of their bathroom mirror, lather up with shaving cream, and scrape their face clean with a razor…
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Podcast #1,129: The Joy of Touching Grass (and Knobs, Buttons, and Boarding Passes)
  Remember the old hotel ice machines? The kind where you’d slide your bucket under the chute and hear the avalanche of cubes crashing into it?…
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PSA: Know What You’re Doing
The comedian Sinbad had a bit where he talks about how much he hates standing in line behind people at McDonald’s. The fact that folks would be hemming and…
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The 9 P.M. Security Routine
In The Safety Trap by security expert Spencer Coursen, he describes a case where a wealthy client of his kept the key fobs for his luxury vehicles near the…
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Odds & Ends: August 7, 2026
Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps’ Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life. I had Patrick Van Horne on the podcast way back in 2014 to discuss this…
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My Best Piece of Relationship Advice After 15 Years of Marriage
My wife Jane and I are celebrating our 15th anniversary this month. Hooray for us! It really feels like I’ve hit the jackpot, because my wife and I enjoy each…
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Podcast #1,128: Big P vs. Little P Purpose — Why You Don’t Need to Find Your One True Calling
People are told their whole lives how important it is to find their purpose. But many find the search frustrating. They feel there’s one true calling or…
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Lift Less to Lift More: When and How to Take a Deload
I’ve been lifting weights consistently for over 15 years now, and in that time I’ve learned that no matter how dialed-in my training is, every now…
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Don’t Be That Guy: The Taxonomy of Lousy Male Friends
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Steve Kamb. We all know “That Guy,” and we all have at least one in our group of friends. He’s…
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Odds & Ends: July 31, 2026
The Friends of Eddie Coyle. This week I watched this 1973 crime film during my Zone 2 cardio, and man, it’s awesome. Robert Mitchum, in one of the best…
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7 Ways to Sock Away an Extra $1,000 in the Next 30 Days
Things are hard out there in the money game. It seems like every month the cost of stuff goes up, making it harder to get ahead, let alone keep your head above…
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Podcast #1,127: Restless, Rooted — What the Odyssey Reveals About Americans’ Divided Souls
  With the release of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey, it seems like everyone’s been talking about a 3,000-year-old epic again…
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The Abilene Paradox: Why Groups End Up Doing Things Nobody Wants to Do
Over on Dying Breed, we’ve been doing a book club where we’re reading Lonesome Dove. If you haven’t read Lonesome Dove, the basic plot is that two former Texas…