*Over the next several weeks we will be covering key principles or virtues that we believe are important to helping you achieve optimal performance and reach your full potential in every area of your life!
Welcome to our new series, Defining Masculinity. Today we are looking at Self-Awareness. Self-aware is defined as, “having conscious knowledge of one’s own character and feelings.” We are looking at what it is and why it is integral to personal growth and our comprehensive definition of true masculinity. Today we continue the conversation with a really good friend, Calvin Little Jr. Calvin is wise beyond his years and today you will get a glimpse as to why that is so. Self-Awareness is our topic for today. takes the center place in our conversation about masculinity and manhood. Please feel free to listen to the last two episodes here, and here
I believe there is a deeply held belief about what it means to be a man. This belief has done unfathomable damage to a generation of men. This mindset influences our beliefs and in many ways has defined manhood. This belief is that vulnerability is a feminine attribute and that showing emotions is weakness. This limited idea of masculinity and what it means to be a man are at the heart of why I am doing this series. This mindset limits men from reaching their full potential and performing in all areas at optimal levels. These episodes highlight how dangerous this message is to our young boys and young men. It is a definition of manhood that is rooted in a misunderstanding of gender roles and an errant reading of history and especially theology. For the Christian man it completely undermines the life of Jesus and his comprehensive modeling of what a man looks like. Calvin and I have a deep heartfelt conversation about the influence of his father and the importance of mentors and community to help facilitate self-awareness. We talk about how culture tries to define us in very narrow ways and how this leads to many of the issues that men face today
References:
Battle Cry: Waging and Winning the War Within by Jason Wilson
You can listen to Calvin and Rhona Little share about marriage in episodes 42 and 43
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