Another great year here on the Art of Manliness has drawn to a close. We hope you’ve enjoyed all the articles and podcasts we’ve published the last twelve months. In case you missed some of our content, below you’ll find a rundown of what was most popular amongst it, as well as highlights of our personal favorites.
Articles
Most Popular Articles of the Year Based on Traffic
Seems like you guys like stuff about fitness and books! And cleaning out your dryer vent?
- The 1980s Walking Workout That Will Actually Get You in Shape
- 8 Low-Tech Ways to Strengthen Your Home Security
- 15 Things Every Man Should Have in His Desk
- How Long Does It Take to Put on Muscle?
- Bibliotherapy: The 8 Best Books For Managing Depression
- A Guide to the Biggest Thing Missing From Your Fitness Routine: Zone 2 Training
- Improve Your Life With the 80/20 Rule
- The Insanely Difficult Standards of History’s Hardest P.E. Program
- How to Clean Out Your Dryer Vent
- The 5 Best Hardboiled Detective Novels
- Disenchant Your Bad Habits
- The Philosophy Textbook Every Man Should Own
- The Biggest Benefit of Exercising Outside in the Winter
- The 8 Best Vintage Self-Improvement Books
Our Personal Picks
(Some of the most popular above would be included in this list as well):
- A Counterintuitive Cure for Burnout
- Autofocus: The Productivity System That Treats Your To-Do List Like a River
- An Argument for Making Exercise (Not Diet) the Foundation of Weight Management
- The 5 Characteristics of Highly Dysfunctional Groups + Becoming a Well-Differentiated Leader
- The Importance of Having a Physical Identity
- Why Ambivalent Relationships Are Terrible for You (And How to Deal With Them)
- True Comradeship
- An Intro to Envy + Envy, Ressentiment, and the Inversion of Values
- Could Physical Activity Be the Solution to . . . (Almost) Everything?
- How to See Better in the Dark
- ¿Tienes Ganas?
- The Pyramid of Leisure
Sunday Firesides Favorites
- Look Into the Tomb
- Are We the Prudes?
- The We’re NOT Going to Hell in a Handbasket Fallacy
- Develop a Metabolically Flexible Psyche
- Distraction Expands to Fill the Void Available
- You Already Know
- We Need to Make Adulthood More Desirable
- What Feels Like Stress Is . . .
- There Is No Other Layer to Life
- Feed Your Individuality on Non-Regurgitated Food
- You Are a Sojourner
- Boredom Is Evil
- Man’s Last Great Conquest — Himself
Podcast
Most Popular Podcasts of the Year Based on Listens
- The Life We’re Looking For
- Fat Loss Made Simple
- Tactics and Mindset Shifts for Making the Most of Life
- How to Turn a Boy Into a Man
- Anxiety Is a Habit — Here’s How to Break It
- Developing Your Personal Uniform
- Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward With Your Life
- How Long Does It Take to Make Friends (And How Does That Process Work, Anyway)?
- How to Shift Out of the Midlife Malaise
- The New Science of Narcissism
- Philosophical Tools for Living the Good Life
- Become a Focused Monotasker
- A Playbook for Modern Dating
Our Personal Picks
(Some of the most popular above would be included in this list as well):
- The Existential in Red Dead Redemption 2
- Live Life in Crescendo
- The Cues That Make You Charismatic
- The Power of Unwavering Focus
- From Novice to Advanced — The Weightlifter’s Journey
- Lonesome Dove and Life’s Journey Through Uncertainty
- Routines Are Overrated
- How Polio Made a President
- We Need a P.E. Revolution
- Kierkegaard on the Present (Passionless) Age
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