In today’s podcast we talk to New York Times Bestselling author Robert Greene about his new book Mastery. We discuss what it takes to become a master in any domain or field in life and the common path that great men like da Vinci, Darwin, and Mozart tred to achieve greatness.

Highlights from the show:

• How Mastery is accessible to everyone
• The six steps to mastery
• Why drudgery is a vital step in the path towards mastery
• How to find a mentor that will guide you along your path to mastery
• How mastery is related to manliness
• And much more!

In today’s episode we discuss mating intelligence with the authors of a new book on the subject. Drs. Glen Geher and Scotty Barry Kaufman are pyschologists and the authors of the book Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love.

Highlights from the Show Include:

What men and women find attractive in one another

The number one thing women find attractive in a man (it’s not what you think it is)

The difference between short term and long term strategies

How sharing a passion for a hobby can make your relationship stronger

The differening mating strategies of men and women

How the Pill changes what women find attractive

The difference between prestige and dominance and what women find attractive

The positives and negatives of technology on mating intelligence

In this edition, we talk to author Marcus Brotherton about his new book, Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories of the Marine Heroes of WWII. Marcus has written over 25 books including The New York Times Bestseller We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers. In addition to writing books, Marcus writes at his blog Men Who Lead Well, as well as at The Art of Manliness.

Highlights from today’s show:

• The three factors that made the battles in the Pacific some of the most atrocious of WWII
• The average age of Marines fighting in the Pacific
• Lessons that today’s man can take from the men who fought in the Pacfic

Welcome back to another episode of the Art of Manliness podcast!

In this edition we talk to the founder and owner of one of my favorite websites, Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness. If you haven’t been to Nerd Fitness yet, go check it out today. Steve writes incredibly useful and inspiring content on how to improve every aspect of your life (but in particular your health) and does it in a way that’s fun, engaging, and approachable. He’s taken fitness and turned it into a real-life video game. On his site you’ll find workouts inspired by The Hobbit and the Konami Code and motivational pieces inspired by The Goonies and Iron Man.

Highlights from the episode include:

• What’s wrong with most fitness blogs and magazines
• The rules of the Nerd Fitness Rebellion
• Workouts inspired by retro video games
• Steve’s favorite video games
• And much more!

Welcome back to another episode of the Art of Manliness podcast!

A few months ago we did a massive series on the history of manly honor in the West. In one of the posts, we explored what honor meant to men living in the American North at the time of the Civil War and how different codes of honor clashed in the Union Army. One of the sources we used while researching for that post was a fascinating book entitled The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army.

In today’s podcast, I talk to to the author of that book, Dr. Lorien Foote. Dr. Foote is a professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas where she specializes in 19th century American history.

Highlights from the episode include:

• Why calling a fellow soldier a “son of a bitch” when you killed t made a difference in the type of punishment you received in the Union Army.
• How the honor of officers and enlisted soldiers differed
• What’s a “rough and tumble” (hint: it involves eye gouging)
• What role dueling played in the Union army at the time of the Civil War
• How Northern and Southern honor differed
• And much more!

If you enjoyed our series on manly honor, I highly recommend finding a copy of the Gentleman and the Roughs. Out of all the books we read on the history of honor, this was by far one of the most enjoyable and interesting reads.

To kick off the resurrection of the AoM podcast, I talk to Dr. Alex Lickerman. Dr. Lickerman is a practicing physician and author of a recently published book entitled, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of  Constructing an Indestructible Self. If you enjoyed our series on the power of resilience, you’re going enjoy my conversation with Dr. Lickerman and his book, Undefeated Mind.

Highlights from the episode include:

• How to not only survive adversity, but thrive in it
• What Buddhism and Stoicism can teach us about building resilience
• Why perception is key to building the undefeated mind
• How you underestimate your ability to face adversity
• How to turn poison into medicine
• Much more!

Our guest today has recently published a biography of Sandow and his times. His name is David Waller and his book is The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugene Sandow, Victorian Strong Man. Mr. Waller has worked as a journalist for the Financial Times and has written and published two books on business. He lives in South West London with his wife and three children.

For more information about the book, visit Victorian Strong Man.

Our guest today has written a book on how TR helped save football. His name is John Miller and his book is called The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football.

Why are men in American falling behind? What’s caused their decline in the past 50 years? Many sociologists argue that driving forces are economic and cultural in nature. But our guest today disagrees and proposes that biology (or rather humans messing with it) is the main force behind the decline of men in the West.

His name is Dr. Lionel Tiger and he’s the author of the book, The Decline of Males: The First Look at an Unexpected New World for Men and Women. Dr. Tiger is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He has written several articles and books on how human biology effects social interaction. Dr. Tiger is also a pioneer in a new academic discipline called male studies.