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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
He mentored me with lessons, with actions, and with words
Don Yeager • A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring
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
It is vitally important that you acquire a social men’s group of friends you can trust as well. A master-mind group is ideal for this. I suggest “The Dragons” membership monthly group meetings or something similar (available at www.becomedurable.com).
Rollo Tomassi • A Dominant Masculine Presence: Learning How To Cultivate Your Authentic Self As A Man And Display Supreme Confidence And Control Over How You Are Perceived


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 guide is often a teacher or mentor of some kind, an older person who trains our protagonist. The teaching may include life skills, teaching in how to behave, or it might include military training, martial arts, athletics, and so on.
David Farland • Million Dollar Outlines
This is key. This is what men need. All of us need actual discipleship and development, specific advice and skills and ways of living in the world that help us learn how to be good at being men.