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Masculine Maturity (Ep. 26)

Modern Man

Puberty happens to every man. Maturity doesn't. This week Brad, Noah, and Sam wrestle with what masculine maturity actually is — and why it has nothing to do with certainty, competence, or age, and everything to do with two trainable traits. What you'll get: • The two-trait test one of America's largest missionary organizations uses to screen candidates — coachability and resilience — and how to audit yourself against it • Why 'the good father by necessity fails' — and what separates men who stay in the failure from men who quit • The 'two births' of fatherhood: why you can't will yourself into being a dad, and what your kids teach you if you let them • Zamboni parenting — smoothing every problem off your child's ice — and why it manufactures immaturity • The talk Sam had with his young son about body safety, and why uncomfortable conversations are the job • Pinocchio as a manual for modern men: power and pleasure without character turn you into a jackass • The maturity roadmap in 1 John 2 — children, young men, fathers — and where you are on it Send it to the one man in your life who's still waiting until he feels ready.