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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…
Women teach us a great deal. For most men, they teach us how to be emotional and how to relate to them. That’s a lot. But women can’t teach us Masculine Emotional Intelligence, just as we can’t teach them Feminine Emotional Intelligence. They also can’t teach the masculine perspective to relating to a woman. They…
“Feeling emotions” is not an oxymoron for men. Men generally feel and express emotions differently than women do. Women have always had to step up to fill in for all the times men were away from the family working, fighting, traveling – and they did a great job. But we’ve lost the masculine perspective on…
Do you find yourself in any of these situations? You’re with someone who is upset, and you’re unable to “control” them Needing to stop and think about how to speak emotionally; that is, you don’t know the answer to the question, “How do you feel?” Doing damage control over something you said or did If…
