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Meh

Reviewed: 03-28-24

Self help guru. If you are young and green in life and would like to be a follower this is a good way to waste your money “a self serving “coach”. You are better off developing a personal spiritual practice, take care of your body, be a citizen of your local community not focus on gender politics and trying to get in the head of the female side. I’m sixty six and have been happily married for an eternity now. This guy sounds like he is a narcissistic know-it-all. Fake masculinity and shallow. Just work on being a decent human being. The rest will fall in place.

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Just OK

Reviewed: 06-28-23

A bit long winded and wordy. The author wrote the book when he was only 57. It’s more about his personal journey transitioning from a performance career to ateaching career. It was not for me and the information could be conveyed in just about any other pop culture self help book. Not really helpful if you are at the end of life or have real health problems. It is upbeat, Christian focused, and the author talks a lot about himself.

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Worth the read

Reviewed: 06-22-23

The last few chapters give real practical advice and this book comes with a pdf.

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Victim mentality

Reviewed: 06-16-23

Opinion psychology that seems to promote the blame game and victimhood. No real strategies for mature resiliency, personal responsibility, or growth in an imperfect world with imperfect people.

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Good

Reviewed: 06-01-23

Good overall intro to human health with a few chapters specifically related to men’s physical health. Lots of shallow dad-bro jokes and not a serious deep dive into masculinity
and how societal, work, and family expectations impact health both physically and mentally for men specifically. Extremely short last chapter on aging. No information or guidance about the transition from the work world to retirement and the loss of identity of “you are what you do and contribute” to a redefining of a self you can be ok with in old age. This book is a good read for the average working Joe between the ages of 30 and 50 years old. If you have any esoteric health concerns (Parkinson’s, autoimmune disease and others) outside of heart health, cancer and hormonal changes you might want to check out other sources.

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Insightful

Reviewed: 04-17-23

A long book in which the author shares many insightful opinions and observations. But, in the end I found it to be his personal altruistic vision of what society and culture should be like. A perfect society with no suffering, no shame, no greed and so on. Thus no illness do to perfect humans and parenting and perfect culture. I was hoping for a more helpful pedestrian understanding of how to cope, and live in our current complex world amongst fellow imperfect flawed human beings. I found that some notions seemed a bit romanticized about historical indigenous cultures. I suspect that they probably had many of the same underlying psychological parenting and cultural problems we have today. The book left me feeling anxious, confused, hopeless, shamed … quite frankly more depressed than when I started it. The book seems to promote a helpless victim mentality with a finger always aimed at the other. In this case our current culture. Being a activist helps but only if you happen to subscribe to that particular activists perspective. Instead, I think I’ll focus on human resilience and the ability to adapt in a world that has always necessitated sacrifice, effort, suffering to survive and sustain life. Yes, our culture will change, but change will only happen when the pain is great enough. Finally, the book did help open my mind and eyes to numerous current cultural beliefs that are no longer beneficial. For this reason I highly recommend reading it for yourself and formulating your own opinions.

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Good book for young women

Reviewed: 02-19-23

This is a good book for young folks especially young women with lots of common sense thought and positive thinking. I think it is helpful for people who have had a privileged and balanced life. If you’re coming from poverty or real physical abuse it would be best to find another resource for help. This book is mainly about your emotions and feelings and how you might be sabotaging yourself. The author is very positive and almost Pollyanna at times.

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Timeless

Reviewed: 12-14-22

This is a great audible listen and rings true in timeless insightful way as to the nature of man and politics. I read this in high school (1974) in tenth grade but now as a senior citizen it means so much more. Especially coming from a Prussian - Ukrainian Jewish heritage. In today’s world it’s hard to determine what information is real or falsified or twisted in our world today.

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Mysandry at its finest

Reviewed: 01-27-21

All young men should listen to this book! Nine and one half hours of male bashing as read by Betty White? (audiobook) This book basically paints a picture that every woman is a victim of men. All men are jerks and women are sugar and spice and everything nice. The examples she gives about women being hurt by men seem made up and contrived. Her knowledge of human sexuality falls between a junior high school girl from the 1950's and 1970's vogue magazine advice columns. This is your angry grandmothers feminism ...all men evil...all sex dirty. Thankfully, feminism in the 21st century has taken a wonderful turn for the better for men. Modern feminism is both feminine and masculine positive. It is more about recognizing and accepting the differences of male and female perspectives. I would highly recommend this book for people who have a shame based attitude about sex, view men as evil, and do not wish to understand anything outside of their comfort zone.

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Opinion

Reviewed: 12-26-20

Could not make it past the first chapter. Some mention of raising good boys not to have sex until marriage and that contemporary culture is the cause of the degradation of morals for boys. Started sounding like a grandmotherly perspective about her personal beliefs of what boys should be. Perhaps a tom-girl who gets to play like a boy but otherwise is sugar & spice and everything nice? Best I listen to a masculine author regarding this topic. However, I’m happy to see there is a book written by a female author that defends some aspects of non-toxic masculinity. Maybe the book gets better but I wasn’t willing to invest anymore time into it.

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