Scott Galloway
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And if you think, well, I need to be a CEO or an adolescent psychiatrist, trust me on this, as someone who mentors young men, it is so easy to add value.
Why are you moving to Alaska?
No, you can't survive on creatine and pineapple juice.
It is so easy to add value.
And some, if we want better men, we have to be better men.
Get involved in a young man's life.
Well, you mentioned education.
70% to 80% of primary school teachers are female, right?
And on a risk-adjusted basis or behavior-adjusted basis, a boy is twice as likely to be suspended for the same behavior, a black boy five times as likely.
So we have to get more men into K through 12.
What's interesting is that your son, once he hits 14 and 15, he will develop these terrible things called opinions.
In addition, there's a healthy hormone that takes over that makes separation easier, and he will begin to find everything you and your wife say is really stupid, and he becomes more prone to listening to your friends than to you.
And that's okay.
And also, probably the most important thing outside of parental involvement, the bottom line is,
Being just present and being there is the most important thing for a man.
And even just saying five years ago that boys need men was seeing as triggering.
It's not a zero sum game.
We can absolutely acknowledge the huge challenges that women still face while acknowledging that if you go into a morgue right now and there's five people who've died by suicide, four are men.
And I would offer up Jordan that if any group was killing themselves at four times the rate of the control group, we would move in with programs.
But because my generation registered so much unfair prosperity, we are holding young men accountable.