The best-selling podcaster’s new book maps out an operator’s manual for being a man today. This is an extract about male friendship.
Scott Galloway’s lessons for being a man include: Find what you’re good at and follow your talent, action absorbs anxiety, and get out of the house. The New York Times
Men and women approach friendship differently. Men have it drilled into us from an early age that vulnerability and emotional connections are signs of weakness. They aren’t. Men with influence have an obligation to cleanse this bullshit version of masculinity from the zeitgeist.
The decline in friendship is insidious, as it feeds on itself. Friendship is a muscle that strengthens with use but atrophies with age, but we have to keep pulsing it. We have so many more opportunities and so much more fuel for our friendships when we are children and even as young adults, but we cannot stop building and using these muscles into and throughout adulthood.
