You Were Not Made to Be Manageable
There was a man at the airport named Dale who ran the fuel farm. Dale knew more about that operation than anybody who has ever worked…
Tag: faith
The Competence Gap Is Real
Now I want to be considerably more specific, because there is a version of that argument that becomes an excuse, and I have watched men use…
Managed Men
Nobody is going to hand you room. I want to say that plainly and then spend a chapter on why, because most men are operating on…
The Conversation That Breaks the Wall
You wrote it down. It went in the column marked real, the one I told you not to touch yet. Two, maybe three items, and you…
Unmanageable Is Not Ungoverned
This is the piece that decides what the last twenty-one did to you. Because there are two men who finish a book like this, and from…
Who Are You Still Trying to Convince?
There is a specific experience that men have and never discuss. You accomplish something real. Something that took years. And there is a moment, brief, where…
The Good Man
The most difficult performance to see, because everything it produces is genuinely good. What it looks like He is the one people describe as a good…
When You Are Not Sure You Believe It
A substantial number of men in church every Sunday are not certain, and not one of them has said so out loud in that building. If…
The Man Who Never Told Anybody
This is the practical center of this. The question Who knows the truth about your life? Not the summary. Not the version at church or at…
A Man Under Authority
One more thing before the end, because there is a failure mode this could produce and it is worth closing off. A man who stops performing…