- 🗓 15.10.2023 🗓 -

#Issue50

Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo Da Vinci

Welcome to this weeks 'Modern Man' Newsletter

Tom here 👋 (The voice behind the project) @tomwatsonuk​

Here is you're round up of the best content, articles and resources (and personal insights) to help you live a better connected and more enriched life as the

MODERN MAN

-Physically - Mentally - Emotionally - Spiritually - Intellectually - Financially-

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-❝ Quote of the week ❞-

"Your reputation is your most important asset. It precedes you before you walk into the room and lingers long after the work is done." James Clear

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- ✍️ Executive Summary ✍️-

In todays issue we are getting to grips with:

-Emotional Responses

-How to Sort Your Posture

-5 Questions to Ask Yourself In Any Relationship

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❓ -WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MAN-❓

3 things I learnt this week that ponders what it might mean (or not) to be a man living in the modern world.

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1) American Industrialist & Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie on Men

'As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.'

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2)Men need more compassion

Clip of Prof Scott Galloway on Diary Of A CEO

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3) US Suicide Deaths Per 100,000 for Ages 15-19 0ver time....

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Thought: Why such a decline for both genders post 1990?

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⚡️-UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL-⚡️

As men we all live with blind spots!

It's time to unlock your potential, set the standard and become the multi faceted man you always wanted to be in these 3 core areas of life...

🧠 - Health- 💪🏻

Straighten Out Your Posture

​Article: THE SUREFIRE WAY TO LOOK TALLER, SLIMMER AND MORE POWERFUL​

The Headlines:

• 💻 Modern tech harms posture; fix with consistent corrections and daily stretches.
• 🚶‍♂️ Good posture = taller, slimmer, powerful; reduces muscle strain.
• 🔄 Never too late to correct; quick exercises realign spine.
• 📱 Avoid "cell phone slump"; raise phone for neck relief.
• 🧘 Neoprene brace aids hunched shoulders discreetly.
• 🕰️ Stretch during daily activities for a healthier spine.

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- 💸 Wealth, Career & Business💸 -

What do you desire?

What if Money Was No Object?

“It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.” ― Alan W. Watts

A cool video...

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❤️ Relationships & Sex ❤️

5 questions to ask yourself if you’re unsure about your relationship...

1- If someone told you you’re a lot like your partner, would this be a compliment to you?

2- Are you truly fulfilled or just less lonely?

3-Are you able to be unapologetically yourself or do you feel the need to show up differently to please your partner?

4-Are you in love with who your partner is right now as a whole, or are you only in love with their good side, their potential, or the idea of them?

5-Would you want your future/imagined child to date someone like your partner?

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🔋-OPTIMISE YOUR LIFE-🔋

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- 🤓 Physical Hack 🤓 -

If you need to know someone’s clothing size, and you think they may be embarrassed by answering, use the wording, “what size are you most comfortable in?” Instead of saying, “what size are you?”

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- 💻 Digital Hack 💻 -

Cancel free trials immediately

Anytime you accept a free trial subscription for a smartphone app, cancel it immediately.

You will still be able to use the app until the trial ends, and you won't get charged if you decide you don't like it but forget to cancel it before the trial expires. (I have been caught out on this so many times! Thanks Strava pro)

Here's how to cancel a subscription from Apple, and from Google.

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🤖 - AI - 🤖

This AI-Designed G-Shock Could Become the Most Expensive Casio Ever Sold

The one-of-one gold watch is expected to sell for between $70,000 to $140,000 at auction.

“We created a design framework,” a Casio representative explained, “and then fed the AI model data about the ways impacts occur when watches are dropped, which Casio had gathered over 40 years of G-SHOCK development.”

​Find out more here​

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💭-SMALL TALK & NUGGETS OF WISDOM-💭

-Stay Interested and Stay Interesting-

Become well rounded and the most interesting man in the room.... (Or at the water cooler?)

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-📆 On This Day 📆 -

On this day in 1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded

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-💭Wisdom💭 -

See Things as They Are, Not as Your Emotions Color Them

You must see your emotional responses to events as a kind of disease that must be remedied.

Fear will make you overestimate the enemy and act too defensively.

Anger and impatience will draw you into rash actions that will cut off your options.

Overconfidence, particularly as a result of success, will make you go too far.

Love and affection will blind you to the treacherous maneuvers of those apparently on your side.

Even the subtlest gradations of these emotions can color the way you look at events.

The only remedy is to be aware that the pull of emotion is inevitable, to notice it when it is happening, and to compensate for it.

When you have success, be extra wary.

When you are angry, take no action.

When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face.

Daily Law: Life demands the utmost in realism, seeing things as they are. The more you can limit or compensate for your emotional responses, the closer you will come to this ideal.

Taken From Robert Greene's 'The Daily Laws'

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-🌀 Cool & Random🌀-

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-🧐 Did You Know 🧐 -

The air pressure on Venus is 90 times greater than that of Earth. To put it into perspective, it's the same pressure felt a mile below the ocean.

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-😆Just For Laughs 😆-

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🍿-What To Watch -🍿

The 12 Greatest, Strangest, Most Transfixing Dance Scenes in the History of Crime Movies

Because people may cheat, steal, and kill, but their hips don't lie.

​Click Here For The List...Enjoy ​

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- 🔠 'Word Of The Week' 🔠 -

Word: Abstruse

Pronunciation: ab-stroos

Meaning: difficult to understand; obscure.

In Use: "Dolphins' complex communication is abstruse, a mystery that scientists strive to decipher and understand."

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❓ Question ❓

“What would you tomorrow want you today to do?”

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-🃏 ‘Dad Joke’ 🃏-

What did the full glass say to the empty glass? You look drunk.

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⁉️-Riddle-⁉️

RIDDLE ME THIS!

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Last Weeks Riddle:Can you guess the next letter in the series? CYGTNLIT_

Answer: Letter 'S'

This Weeks Riddle: How many times in a day, are the hands of a clock in straight line but opposite in direction?

Answer: Revealed in nexts weeks issue!

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📸Image Of The Week 📸

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💬-TALK CLUB-💬

I am a co-founder of the award winning global charity Talk Club, a talking and listening club for men.
We offer global talking groups, sports groups and therapy to help keep men mentally fit.

​Click Here To Join The Community​

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