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Don Yeager • A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring
This one is really important. If you don’t have a father figure, find one. It could be a priest, a coach, a supervisor at work, idk. I’m really just hoping its your father.
Either way, you need someone that can coach you through life’s woes. Even better if they’re in (or have been in) the same field as you so they can help you along... See more
Layne A. Jackson • Advice for Young Men
Throughout the rest of his life, the community of men admonished, affirmed, and endorsed his masculinity. Life was filled with camaraderie, protection, and high ideals. Boys become men in the community of men. There is no substitute for this vital component. Dad, if your boy is to become a man, you must enlist the community.
Robert Lewis • Raising a Modern-Day Knight
When the Greek adventurer Odysseus embarked for war with Troy, he entrusted his son, Telemachus, to the care of a wise old friend named Mentor. Mentor raised
Shane Snow • Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
A social and spiritual competence can be summarized in three phrases: A vision for manhood A code of conduct A transcendent cause These are the building blocks of real manhood!
Robert Lewis • Raising a Modern-Day Knight
If authentic manhood revolves around three primary responsibilities, then the wise father will train his son to embrace these with enthusiasm: a will to obey (God’s will as revealed in the Scriptures), a work to do (not just in the work of his job, but also the work in his home, church, and community), and a woman to love (his wife). If he is going
... See moreRobert Lewis • Raising a Modern-Day Knight
Mentorship in men is often a kind of transmission born of physical proximity; the teaching is not spoken but absorbed. For thousands of years, men danced and walked and moved together, taught each other the ways of nature.