By Richard D. Phillips
Our society seems torn between two extremes when it comes to what it means to be a man. One the one side we have the 'TV dad' who just sits and watches football like a bit lump of jello and is pretty much just an older version of the teenager, except with a bald head and a beer belly. On the other hand you have the 'WWE dude'. This guy is held up as a manly man who can smash heads and take a head smashing all while pounding his chest and roaring like a spartan warrior. In this book, Richard Phillips comes along and shows us how a masculine man should really look like.
The path he sets out for us men certainly isn't as easy one. Its not a path of lazy indolence and its not a path of macho bravado, but its a path of selflessly using the strength that we have to help others. Phillips writes in an easily readable and very accessible style. This book only took me a few hours to read and I found it well worth the read.It was both challenging and helpful at the same time. This is certainly a book that is worth picking up and reading.
Random Quote:
Have you noticed that, almost every time, the second subject that comes up when two men meet involves work? I sit next to a man on an airplane, and what does he ask? "what's your name?" I answer, 'I'm Rick Phillips' The next question is amazingly consistent "what do you do?" How we answer tells people what to think of us. page 20
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