Lewis Howes

Congrats on the book.

Thanks.

We were talking beforehand about that I wrote a book called The Mask of Masculinity seven years ago that I think was ahead of its time.

But I think people really need to hear what you're talking about today because there's so much confusion

with men in society.

And so I'm gonna give you a layup question to start.

What is the role of men in society today?

They don't have the skills also, right?

It's like they don't have the skills to face that unfair advantage, I guess, or to manage it all.

Drugs, whatever it might be.

Yeah, it's interesting because I saw this article on Vogue.

The headline says, is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?

And hearing these stats, if I'm a woman hearing these stats that essentially I live longer without a man in my life, who knows the context of all these things, but I also I'm fine without a man in some ways.

Yeah.

Why should women get in a relationship with a man if there's also benefit for women being single?

So there's unfortunately, I think that there's having a family and raising children and, you know, providing for society in a way, obviously, and not being alone your whole life.

If you're not doing anything except for consuming all day and you're not developing skills,

offline or even online skills to create value in the world how are you surviving is it just you're getting checks from the government or your family or people paying for them or how does this work it's a really good question there are government services you know everything from snap to unemployment to welfare to medicaid they you know they got they

Interesting.

I used to think that you become a man and maybe it's more emotionally or spiritually when you have a child and when you lose your father, like you have to step into some type of