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 weddin...
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20 of 1,186 episodesBrandon 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...
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 o...
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 a...
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 instru...
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...
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...
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 ach...
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...
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 ha...
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...
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 tru...
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....
The Secret Skills of Master Negotiators
When most people think of negotiation, they picture big, high-stakes moments: haggling over the price of a house, negotiating a starting sal...
The Art of Easy Discipline
Most people assume that if a goal is hard to achieve, getting there has to feel hard too. We tend to believe that extraordinary results requ...
Beyond Midlife Myths — Why Middle Age Can Be Your Prime Time
Many of us grow up believing that midlife is when things start going downhill. Your body's breaking down, your best work is behind you, and...
George Washington — The Man Behind the Monument
George Washington is perhaps the most familiar figure in American history. But most people really only know the image of him they see in mar...
The Retirement Trap — Should You Really Stop Working at 65?
The modern idea of retirement was built on a bet that turned out to be wrong. It assumed people would spend most of their lives working and...
Belonging Without Conforming — The Path From Pseudo Self to Solid Self
We all want two things that can seem at odds with each other: to be our own person and to belong. We want to stand apart from the crowd, but...
How to Try Again
Life rarely unfolds according to plan. A relationship implodes. A move or job change doesn't work out. Or you simply fail in a goal you've s...