Connor Beaton argues that men's chronic need for external validation leaves them feeling hollow. Real self-worth isn't given or earned through likes and approval, but built through struggle and pain, becoming worthy to yourself rather than to others.
We live in the age of hollow men. Men who are struggling to feel a deep sense of value and worth. Men who are caught doom scrolling through social media chronically comparing themselves to other people and apologizing for even existing. Trying to build a sense of self worth and value from external validation from likes online, from approval from women and other people. If you grow up in a culture that constantly tells you that you're not needed or wanted, you'd begin to question whether your value as a man is relevant. That real worth as a man doesn't come from being liked, from necessarily being safe or being accepted. It comes from becoming worthy to yourself. Your value as a man isn't something that you have. It is something that you build. It is something that you construct through struggle, through pain, through becoming.
How to Raise Strong, Unshakable Boys in Today's Culture, with Dr. Shefali Tsabary
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