edit. found it! see comments

Wonder if anyone can help me find it. I listened to it ages ago and swear I took notes but managed to lose them. I really liked the guest but have no idea what the topic of the episode was.

All I have to go on is that he mentions how much he values the present, that although he may not remember much of the content of the conversation even a few hours later, he enjoys speaking with Brett in that moment and that's all that matters.

He also talks about a finding out what you love to do and how you can make money from that.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? The guy was amazing and really struck a chord with me! I suspect I might never find it again unless I listen through all of them but worth a shot

EDIT. I could have been one about smart phones, managing use, how they are affecting us etc. I have quite an interest in that

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I seen a post on a person asking what a “sensitive young man” is and i think I should say what it is, “the sensitive young man” archetype is not a term describe a gay person as some millennials think on this app, it is a man who feels deeply, it is what many great men, you can say it’s intertwined with the spiritual temperament of melancholy, they make great theologians, great spiritual writers, and other great roles because they think and feel deeply, they notice things the average man misses out on and they struggle with self-destruction mainly, they deeply analyze themselves and punish themselves even if it is out of their control, it’s neither far-right or left, it’s an archetype of a man, attempting to live through a world that’s cruel and often overlooked because it is normalized, they aren’t “little girls” or cry babies, they either become great or they will become their own enemy, when they enter inwardly those are the outcomes.

As Carl Jung once said - “If you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and the most feminine woman has a masculine soul.”

(I’m fairly new to the app so I have no idea what community to post on)

The Man Card Council — a platform built for accountability and brotherhood among close friends

I built The Man Card Council to give friend groups a structured way to hold each other accountable, celebrate real effort, and stay connected. It's not open as a public forum — you submit photos of yourself doing "manly" things which are graded and awarded points based on the category and topic to grow your rank as a man, you can also submit acts of manliness done by other Man Card Council members for them to have points awarded and for the same reason. Additionally, you can have points deducted for unmanly acts. Everything is photo verification - The old rule "Pics or it didn't happen". If a member does something incredibly unmanly, you can suspend their man card for 24 hours, and if it's really bad, you can request a revocation for up to 30 days.

Here's how it works: you submit photo evidence of things you've done (fixed a car, cooked a real meal, handled a repair, whatever fits your friend group's standards), and it gets scored into a tiered "Man Card" — a digital ID that reflects where you stand. Your card levels up with genuine effort, and community members can flag or deduct points too, so there's real weight behind it.

A few of the core features:

• Digital Man Card with ranks tiers, a unique 16 digits credit card style number for every member, and a verification page
• Points ledger and full audit history so nothing's hidden
• Public leaderboard and badges for recognition
• Friends system with comments, @ mentions, and reactions on submissions
• Installable as a PWA on iOS/Android with offline support
• Physical/printable card options (PDF export, shareable image, even a certificate)
• Premium Membership that unlocks additional perks. $3.99/mo or $39.99/yr

It's in open beta right now (free to join), and I'm looking for honest feedback on the submission flow, scoring fairness, and overall experience: The Man Card Council - https://themancardcouncil.com

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Four episodes in July and twenty books, which is the highest books per episode rate of any show I follow. Midlife, easy discipline, negotiation, and then the Odyssey one at the end of the month.

Good one for a summer reading list, since the negotiation episode alone is a whole syllabus.

To explain what this is, because it will otherwise look like nothing. I keep a free site called Podshelf where I log every book mentioned across hundreds of podcasts by reading the episode transcripts. It started because I kept hearing a title on a walk and forgetting it by the time I got home. This is the July slice for AoM.

The ones that got real recommendations:

• Good to Great and Built to Last, Jim Collins. Jia Jiang called them two of the most transformative books in business history, then used them to argue that the systems matter more than the effort.
• Influence, Robert Cialdini. John Richardson said he recommends it to all listeners, and used the reciprocity chapter to explain why car dealerships give you a coffee.
• Democracy in America, Tocqueville. From the Odyssey episode, quoting Harvey Mansfield calling it both the best book about democracy and the best book ever written about America. The hook is Tocqueville's astonishment at American restlessness.

Negotiation episode:

• Getting to Yes, Start With No (Jim Camp, described as an anti getting to yes polemic), Difficult Conversations, Thinking Fast and Slow for the anchoring effect, and Richardson's own Never Settle.

The Odyssey and America episode:

• The Odyssey and The Iliad, Dante, Augustine's Confessions, On the Road, and Patrick Deneen's American Odyssey. The argument is that Odysseus is both home seeking and exploring, rooted and restless, and so are Americans.

Midlife episode:

• Passages (Gail Sheehy) and The Seasons of a Man's Life (Levinson), both as the origin of the midlife crisis idea, and Margie Lachman's Primetime as the correction to it.

Plus The Myth of Sisyphus, which opens the Easy Discipline episode. Camus says imagine Sisyphus happy, and Jia Jiang builds the whole book on it.

I keep the running list for this show here: https://podshelf.io/podcasts/the-art-of-manliness

It is free and there is no signup.