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Article Round-Up: 3.2.25
Enjoy this week’s curated articles, videos, and more from the web to help you life a healthier, happier life.
Featured Thoughts:
The Male Loneliness & Masculinity Epidemic
More and more of the conversations I’ve been having with the men in my life revolve around one question: What does it mean to be a man?
Many young men struggle to find their identity, caught between toughness and compassion. And it’s only made worse by influencers like Andrew Tate, shouting misogynistic and harmful advice at them.
This problem is amplified by the male loneliness epidemic—40% of men report feeling lonely at least once a week, and 15% say they have zero close friends.
After seeing how these problems continue to affect the men around me—and, in turn, negatively impact the people in their lives—I knew I had to do something.
I met up with a local gym-owner friend to talk about what I was seeing. He shared similar stories from his own experiences. We decided to do something about it.
That’s how the Outpost Men’s Lifting Challenge was born—a team lifting challenge with a collective goal of moving a quarter million pounds in an hour.
Graciously hosted at Outpost Jersey Shore, seventeen men showed up last night to help us take a stand against male loneliness.
Not only did we hit our 250K goal—we doubled it, lifting a total of 513,575 pounds.
The energy was unreal. Seventeen strangers came together as a team, cheering each other on, pushing past limits, and supporting one another. It didn’t matter how much weight you lifted—every single pound contributed to the goal.
Our mission with this event was simple: to create a welcoming space for men to improve themselves. But the real vision? To make these lifting challenges the gateway to deeper conversations about manhood and identity.
Check out the highlights from this week’s event below.
Published This Week:
Why You’re Skipping Workouts (And How To Fix It)
Takeaway: Skipping workouts isn’t always about motivation—it’s about friction. The more obstacles between you and getting started, the easier it is to bail, even when you want to follow through.
If you keep missing workouts, start removing friction.
15 With Phil: The Power of Listening [podcast]
Takeaway: This interview with Phil, who has be come a good friend since we met at a conference last March, goes in a few directions. One important point I make on the subject of understanding others:
Any talk about reading body language, cues, or behavior is useless without a baseline. To figure out why someone is behaving a certain way, you first have to know how they usually behave in normal circumstances.
Reading body language is not mind reading, it’s identifying deviations.
Takeaway: Here are a few of my favorite tips.
Organize your travel around passions instead of destinations. You’ll have more adventures and more fun if you are doing things you love to do in cool places than taking tours of boring museums because “it’s the thing to do.”
Take a food tour at the beginning of your trip to a new destination. I learned this tip on my first solo trip to Portugal. You will learn so much culture, try new foods you may not know exist, and get a great walking tour of the city. It can even help you find restaurants or food vendors that you want to go back and visit later in your trip.
It is far better to spend more time in a few places than a little time in a bunch of places. In my first three trips abroad, I lost a day (at least) of my two weeks in transit between the three or four different cities I wanted to see. On my fourth trip, I spent my entire two weeks in the same city. I loved all of those trips, but staying in one place allowed me to really feel the city. By the end, I almost began to feel at home.
To get a good restaurant recommendation, don’t ask them where is a good place you should eat; ask them where they eat.
P.S. I guess my travel curse is still in effect.
For those who don’t know, my curse is to get the worst possible weather any time I travel. It’s happened for 90% of the trips I’ve taken in the past two years.
Most recently, I was in Dallas for a three day conference. It was 20 degrees for those three days. 70 degrees before and after. You can’t make this up.