Polymathic Being Podcast

Becoming a Man

Polymathic Being Podcast

Show Notes

Today’s topic challenges us to rethink our expectations of men and demand more than the trappings that society tells us mark manliness. The reality is something much harder, much deeper, and much simpler; you have to die. Let’s dig in and find out how our culture has failed to mature boys into true men.

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