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Listen Up! Part III: Crafting Good Questions and Responses
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tony Valdes. As this series on listening comes to a close (see part 1 and part 2), we should consider a few things in terms of the transition from listener to...
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Too Seldom Is Heard an Encouraging Word: Why and How to Offer More Compliments
Image Source “Idle words are characterless and die upon utterance. Evil words rankle for a while, make contentions, and then die. But the hopeful, kind, cheering word sinks into a man’s heart and goes...
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The Ins and Outs of Opening a Door for a Woman
Readers email us surprisingly often with questions about opening doors for women. AoM readers are interested in being gentlemen and obviously understand the basics of this traditional act of chivalry:...
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How a Man Can Grieve for a Deceased Friend
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Marcus Brotherton. How unexpected—and yet not—this late night phone call from Shannon, the wife of my close friend Paul. “Come to the hospital,” Shannon said....
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Manly Rules for Naming Man’s Best Friend
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jon Finkel. Presidents are notorious for giving their dogs politically correct names (See: Bill Clinton re: Buddy or Gerald Ford re: Liberty). Lyndon Johnson even...
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Look ‘Em in the Eye: Part I – The Importance of Eye Contact
How often have you talked with another guy who never looked you in the eye during the entire length of the conversation? Or perhaps he did meet your gaze a few times, but then his eyes shifted back to...
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Look ‘Em in the Eye: Part II – How to Make Eye Contact the Right Way in Life,...
In our first post in this two-part series on eye contact, we discussed the importance of eye contact and some of the reasons we don’t always feel comfortable looking someone in the eye. But just...
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Beware The Tit for Tat Trap
As we talked about in a previous post, Kate and I have what might be termed a “Marriage Master Mind.” We share everything just about equally—the blog, parenting, household chores, and so on. We get...
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Listen Up! Part I: Learning the Manly Skill of Paying Attention
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tony Valdes. As part of earning my bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and communications I elected to take SPC 3350, a college course titled “Listening,” taught by...
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Listen Up! Part II: 15 Techniques to Improve Our Listening
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tony Valdes. Welcome back to our three-part series on becoming better listeners. In the previous installment, we established that listening is a desirable...
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How to Make Friends in a New City
Brought to you by Jameson Black Barrel. What’s this? Every year, roughly 15% of the population of America relocates. If we expand that to a five-year period, that number balloons to 40%. Most moves...
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On Being Neighborly
Between college and graduate school I took a gap year where I worked in a restaurant, snow skied every chance I got, and tried to figure out the rest of my life. During that year I lived in a big old...
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How to Create a Lifelong Brotherhood
Editor’s Note: This a guest post from Jonathan Mead. The responses from my closest male friends surprised me when I asked them this question: “What’s the one thing you feel was or is missing that’s...
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5 Types of Friends Every Man Needs
This post is brought to you by State Farm. For more help, visit State Farm Nation. What’s this? How many friends does a man really need? It’s not uncommon on Facebook to have hundreds of “friends.”...
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How to Be a Good Neighbor: 9 Old Fashioned Tips for Getting to Know the Folks...
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by John Corcoran. A new family moved in next door to me a few weeks ago, but to my 3-year-old son, you would have thought it was the circus that arrived, elephants...
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How to Make Small Talk with Strangers: My 21-Day Happiness Experiment
One of the more unexpected changes I discovered upon becoming a parent is how much more you end up talking with strangers. This is in part because strangers are more likely to approach you when you...
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How to Recover From a Bad First Impression
Have you ever met someone new, and almost immediately realized you had made a bad first impression? Maybe you made an off-color joke, were obviously inebriated, or came on too strong. Or maybe you put...
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Help for the Shy Guy — Step 1: Understand the Nature of Your Shyness
There’s a girl in your political science class that you’re attracted to. You’d like to get to know her better, but the thought of even saying hello makes you sick to your stomach. You’re at the...
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Help for the Shy Guy — Step 2: Identify the Faulty Thinking That Leads to...
Last week we began a three-part series on how to overcome shyness — a feeling of social anxiety and discomfort that can hold us back from forming warm relationships, reaching our goals, and just...
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Help for the Shy Guy: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Your Shyness
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been exploring the subject of shyness. In our first post, we talked about the nature of shyness and its symptoms. In last week’s article, we outlined the faulty...
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