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A key measure of emotional intelligence is knowing that every virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice. (Warren Farrell)
Boys who are not interested in school almost always have an interest that can be catalyzed into future employment if it is pursued via hands-on experience. View quote
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Should your son follow his bliss, it's most likely the money he'll miss. View quote
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Women who have the option of being economically self-sustaining will increasingly want your son to also have emotional and relationship intelligence. View quote
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And without love, your son's purpose has no purpose. View quote
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The women who were best able to grow spiritually and psychologically had married men who were the least able to grow. View quote
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Many of the qualities your son develops to kill in war-or be a hero at work-undermine the qualities it takes to love at home. View quote
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The pay of the volunteer fireman? Praise. Respect. Purpose. View quote
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In The Deadliest Catch, the death the men face is the source of entertainment, but not of concern. View quote
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Your son learns the "hero paradox”: to value himself by not valuing himself. View quote
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The word hero derives from the root *ser-, from which we also get the word "servant.”. (Warren Farrell)
Your son's heroes didn't climb traditional ladders-they built their own. View quote
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Your son may simultaneously feel that the male role is pressuring him to feel obligated to earn money someone else spends while he dies sooner. View quote
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Whether or not we know our dad, we have a relationship with him. The relationship in our mind is our relationship. View quote
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Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye-what he loved to do-for the new glint in his eye: his love for you. View quote
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The road to high pay is a toll road. View quote
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If he followed his bliss, it's the money you'd miss. View quote
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Whether we call it ikigai or sense of purpose, when we pursue what we believe gives life meaning, it gives us life. View quote
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The more a boy represses his feelings and puts armor around his heart, the harder it is to open our hearts to him. View quote
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To win wars, we had to train our sons to be disposable. We honored boys if they died so we could live. We called them heroes. View quote
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Sensitivity to the death and suffering of boys and men is in competition with our survival instinct. (Warren Farrell)
It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. View quote
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government. View quote
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. View quote
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts. View quote
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