368: Brett McKay: Mastering the Lost Art of Manliness

Knowledge For Men

Andrew Ferebee

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4.5 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Brett McKay is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Art of Manliness, the largest independent men’s lifestyle magazine on the web with over 10 million monthly page views. Brett earned a degree in Letters (with a focus on Classics) from the University of Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Tulsa College of Law. He lives with Kate, his wife and AoM's Executive Editor, and their two children in Tulsa, OK. When he’s not talking or writing about manliness, Brett enjoys barbell training and spending time outdoors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Knowledge for Men's Show. Your life will never be the same. Your level of success will
0:05.1	seldom exceed your level of personal development. I want to die empty of regret. I want to die
0:10.2	empty of my best work. We don't understand who we are. Instead, we're living out somebody else's narrative.
0:15.8	But one man can do, another man can do. If it's been done, it can be done again. Being yourself and being your
0:21.4	truest, most authentic self in every moment, if it scares you or makes you a little afraid, do it,
0:27.7	follow your heart and your gut. The first stage, I think, is finding you, like finding out who I am
0:32.8	today. Stuff will not work. You will have things that fail. Success is when you're a happy,
0:37.8	fulfilled person. How do you define success? It's your life and you are the creator of the movie script
0:44.0	that is your life story. All right, guys, welcome to this show. I'm here with Brett McKay,
0:49.2	the founder of the art of manliness, a show that I've been trying to get here for you guys,
0:54.6	the listeners, for a couple years now. And funny story, I'll share it how I got him on the show. But he's written
0:59.6	numerous personal development books for men, all available on Amazon, and just a few that
1:05.1	really caught my attention, the art of manliness, classic skills and manners for the modern man.
1:09.9	And I really liked the book on the
1:11.9	seven virtues of men, which you can find on Amazon. Brett, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me.
1:18.5	All right. And Brett, so let's dive in here with a favorite success quo or some sort of saying that
1:23.5	you've lived by that's helped you on your journey. Yeah, be useful, not important.
1:30.7	And how has this helped you on your journey? Yeah, it's just a reminder because I feel like this day and age we live in, there's a focus on being important, right? Like being known
1:37.1	through social media and all that sort of thing. And the thing is, though, the way you provide
1:43.0	value to the world and the way you actually
1:44.9	find fulfillment is not through being important and being well known. It's by being useful to
1:50.5	others. And that keeps me grounded. It reminds me to stay focused on that. And the funny thing
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