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What is a Guide?

What is a Guide?

A guide is defined as a person who advises or shows the way. They light the path but they do not walk it in our stead.⁣⁣ A guide cannot give the an...

Of Mustangs and Men

In order to gain perspective we can only rely on our past experience, which allows us to see our situation from different angles. This gives us the...

A Bridge To Somewhere Vs. The Road to Nowhere

As we evolve into stronger and more capable men, it is all too easy to let guilt of our past actions hinder and freeze our evolution in the present...

A Pagan and a Christian Walk Into a Bar...

This may sound like the opening line to a joke, but it is in fact, a series of real events...

The Greatest Gift My Father Gave Me

The greatest gift my father ever gave me was his time. This may seem trivial and as a as young boy, I couldn't really comprehend the significance t...

To Beard or Not to Beard...

To beard, or not to beard: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of shaving, Or to take arms again...

Without a Safety Net

As I watched my business partner free solo the seventy foot tall frozen waterfall, I wondered if I could run Savage Gentleman if he were to plumme...

The Paradox of Inquiry

“A man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know. He cannot search for what he knows—since he knows it, there is no need ...

Great Fire Can Follow a Small Spark

We all need a spark to get us going or keep us motivated. It can come from many places, but it is often found in the people around us. Many people ...

Exercising Humility

There is an interesting relationship between confidence, humility, and success. On the one hand, being humble keeps a person grounded and helps the...

Make Something

As men, we are capable of many things. We can both create and destroy. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than turning the hide of a once living...

Embrace The Wild

I am sitting here, at work, embraced in a cocoon of electric blue light, and the cicada like buzzing of computers. Soon, I will start the 3 days a ...

Inspiration without Action is Just a Daydream

Too often we misconstrue motivation with inspiration. But motivation isn't something that can be found through Instagram pictures with cool quotes....