7 quiet signs a man has done genuine work on himself, not the kind he talks about, the kind that shows up in how he treats people when nothing is at stake
There is a version of self-improvement that is entirely performative. It has a vocabulary: growth mindset, doing the work, levelling up. It has a wardrobe: the journal on the desk, the meditation app with a long streak, the book spine facing outward. It is not without value. Reading and reflecting and building practices genuinely matters. …
The conversation most men avoid having with themselves in their 20s can shape how their 30s feel
I spent most of my twenties doing everything right by conventional standards, and feeling, underneath all of it, that something was significantly wrong. I had a psychology degree from a good university. I was moving through a corporate career in Melbourne that looked, from the outside, like exactly the kind of trajectory a young man …
7 hobbies that were completely normal for men growing up in the 1960s and 70s that turned out to be better for the brain than anything invented since
While modern technology promised to make us smarter, neuroscience research reveals that the analog hobbies men naturally pursued in the 60s and 70s—from tinkering with ham radios to building model trains—were secretly engineering their brains in ways no app or video game has managed to replicate since.
