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Editor's Note: Awhile back, I came across a really cool little old book called Men of Stamina. Published ...

In the film versions of Ian Fleming’s original James Bond novels, 007 often wins the day through the use ...

 I’m a classics guy, so the ancient Greeks and Romans inform a lot of my ideas about what manliness ...

The Ladder of St. Augustine By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of ...

Along with getting into shape, being more productive is a common goal people have. While there are a ton of ...

Image Source Have you ever had a really busy schedule -- lots of responsibilities, lots of deadlines, ...

 Do you feel overwhelmed by your digital devices? Do you constantly have an itch to check your phone even ...

Editor's note: This excerpt/quiz is taken from a magazine published in the 1940s.  Personal ...

 The fall of the Roman Empire has been a cultural touchstone in the West for centuries. It’s been used ...

 Earlier this year we published an in-depth series about masculinity and the Christian religion -- in ...

 Whether you’re a businessman, a statesman, a general, or a parent, you’re strategizing on a daily ...

Last week we talked about why your first impression matters -- how amazingly quickly other people form one ...

Waller Newell has said that “In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and ...

 Pride. It’s been called one of the deadly sins. But what if pride holds the key to human success and ...

You meet a woman at a party and think you have a good conversation. But when you later send her a text, ...

 Football is often used as a metaphor for life. What is it about football that makes it so adept at ...

Editor’s note: The following selection on "How to Get Stick-to-itiveness" comes from The Technique of ...

 Thanks to digital technology, modern life often promises us a world full of limitless possibilities where ...

 When authors Doug Stone and Bruce Patton were researching their book Difficult ...

By age 25 John D. Rockefeller controlled one of the largest oil refineries in the nation. By age 31 he ...