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Masculine Emotional Intelligence. The MQ – the Masculine Quotient, the unique masculine way of expressing emotions
Do you want to succeed in your relationship? Then… Stop behaving like a woman. If you are like me, and virtually all the men I know, how we frame and express our emotions comes from women. Women raised us. They raised our dads and their dads. Since the Industrial Revolution, men worked outside the home…
You had a plan to be in a great relationship, with a fulfilling career, and maybe a family of your own. . Where are you with that plan? Maybe your relationship is heading in the direction of previous relationships. Maybe you just don’t have one. Your work is just that – work. The plan of…
What is the toughest, most macho place to work? How about an oil rig? When Shell Oil decided to build the largest oil rig in history, to drill deeper than any other rig, they trained their men dig deep. For those men, digging deep meant digging into their emotions. This NPR report tells the story…
We all do it; at the year’s end, we assess our achievements for the past year and plan our next year’s achievements. What we rarely do is step back and see the past year as a Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey; nor do we set up the next year as a new Hero’s Journey. After studying…
In my recent TEDx talk, What 10,000 Years of Progress Cost Men, I reflect on my forty-year journey on developing my Masculine Emotional Intelligence. As I mentioned in the talk, I started with a few challenges that I healed and learned from. Losing at everything made me resolute: I was determined to be successful in…
As a kid, I fought. I fought my parents, teachers and friends. I pushed against whatever felt restrictive. I often lost, but that didn’t stop me from opposing what I felt was unfair. As a teenager, I escalated my opposition. I was more skilled at getting what I wanted and I had more authority, so…
