Nelson Vergel
Founder, ExcelMale.com
Last week we explored the fact that idleness kills manliness. Masculinity is an energy — one which seeks to fight, struggle, compete, take risks, and explore — that needs an outlet to be kept strong, vital, and fully tuned up.
In the absence of such an outlet, masculine energy collapses. Men lose their sense of drive, purpose, and self-respect, and their standards, hardihood, and discipline atrophy. A slide into restlessness, vice, malaise, and outright depression is often the result.
In times past, idleness was kept at bay by external forces — danger and threats inherent in a wild environment, universal military conscription, jobs that required physical labor, etc.
Today, there is little outside yourself that will compel you to embrace what Theodore Roosevelt called “the strenuous life.” In the absence of an honor culture, in a time of peace and plenty, there is little social shame in putting forth minimal effort, floating through life, and generally being content with the status quo.
The motivation to be your best, utilize your full potential, and exercise the four tactical virtues of masculinity, must come instead from within.
Below we discuss the 7 key mindset changes that will enable you to move from the path of least resistance to the road less taken — from passive idleness to active readiness.
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/...eed:+TheArtOfManliness+(The+Art+of+Manliness)
In the absence of such an outlet, masculine energy collapses. Men lose their sense of drive, purpose, and self-respect, and their standards, hardihood, and discipline atrophy. A slide into restlessness, vice, malaise, and outright depression is often the result.
In times past, idleness was kept at bay by external forces — danger and threats inherent in a wild environment, universal military conscription, jobs that required physical labor, etc.
Today, there is little outside yourself that will compel you to embrace what Theodore Roosevelt called “the strenuous life.” In the absence of an honor culture, in a time of peace and plenty, there is little social shame in putting forth minimal effort, floating through life, and generally being content with the status quo.
The motivation to be your best, utilize your full potential, and exercise the four tactical virtues of masculinity, must come instead from within.
Below we discuss the 7 key mindset changes that will enable you to move from the path of least resistance to the road less taken — from passive idleness to active readiness.
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/...eed:+TheArtOfManliness+(The+Art+of+Manliness)
