Male friendships tend to last longer than female friendships. Male friendships generally have less tension than female friendships. Male friends are more tolerant of their friends’ foibles and idiosyncrasies than female friends are. Male friends are better at being fun and enjoyable companions than female friends. Male friends experience less “friendship jealousy” and are more […]
Note: This excerpt, condensed from the original, was taken from Masterful Personality by Orison Swett Marden, a book which was published in 1921 and is worth reading in its entirety. “A man is not all included between his hat and boots,” said Walt Whitman. There is something in a man which does not inhere in
Note: This is a rebroadcast. Over the last year, my 12-year-old son has been doing one challenge every week as a rite of passage and chance to earn a special trip. Some of these challenges have involved reading a book in a week, and the most recent book we gave him to read was How to Win Friends
In a famous study done a couple of decades ago, researchers wanted to see whether the “proximity and salience of a food” influenced how much of it was consumed. Jars were filled with candy and placed in an office. Some of them were put directly on workers’ desks; others were placed six feet away from them.
How to Win Friends and Influence People may have sold tens of millions of copies, but its author, Dale Carnegie, wasn’t born a complete natural at embodying the principles the book espouses. Instead, the warm, low-key charm Carnegie was known for during his life was developed through intentional and consistent effort and practice. One of the
When we imagine the love lives of previous generations, we tend to hypothesize along two lines. We think that things were more idyllic in the past, that people were more moral, took the vows of marriage more seriously, and were happier and more faithful as a result. Or, we tend to take a more cynical
One of my favorite pictures — me, Rick, and Gus fishing in Vermont. When your kid marries, you not only gain another family member, you gain a new role: father-in-law. It’s not a role that gets much celebration or attention. If we culturally mention in-laws at all, it tends to be in terms of unwanted
“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love,” Charlie Brown once said. Indeed, being spurned by one’s crush, or, for that matter, by a friend or potential employer, not only ruins the taste of one’s favorite sandwich spread, but causes great psychological distress and even physical pain. Here to walk us
Note: The following is an excerpt from The Building of Boyhood: A Manual for Parents, published in 1933. “Some Reasons Why Some Men Are Successful Fathers”By Frank H. Cheley They Believe that being a father is the greatest privilege given any man, and so take their fatherhood seriously. They Believe that all boys are mostly good, but
These days, you hear more and more about parents and adult children being estranged from each other. Some individuals have even decided to go “no contact” with their parents; they don’t want anything to do with their mom and/or dad at all. To understand what’s behind this phenomenon, today I talk to Joshua Coleman, a
