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in: Health, Health & Fitness Brett & Kate McKay • May 5, 2026 You hear a lot today about how our ample screentime is affecting our mental health. But how is it affecting our bodies, and how is that impact on our…
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How many streaming services are you paying for right now? If you had to write the number down from memory, could you get within five dollars of the actual monthly total? When was the last time you logged into that fitness app that’s been…
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If you’ve been following AoM long enough, you know I like philosophy. I’ve written about philosophy on the site and talked to lots of philosophers on the podcast. Philosophy isn’t some esoteric practice for me. It’s practical. I turn to…
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While we often think of life as linear, my guest’s own life, along with a decade of research, has taught him that it’s anything but. In his latest book, What to Make of a Life, Jim Collins unpacks the cyclical pattern life actually…
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Growing up in the 80s and 90s, if my dad wasn’t watching In the Heat of the Night on our wood-paneled television, he was sitting in his recliner with a book in his hand. But not just any book. Popular, mass-market paperbacks. Thick ones,…
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Few things have captured the passion, the sometimes obsession, of men like the motorcycle. There’s no mystery as to why this is. Motorcycles represent a peculiar combination of several manly elements: danger, speed, singular focus,…
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1984 by George Orwell. My 15-year-old son, Gus, has been digging into dystopian literature lately. He recently finished this classic novel and thoroughly enjoyed it. According to Gus, 1984 is “packed with high tension” and “really…
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in: Career & Wealth, Podcast, Wealth Brett & Kate McKay • April 21, 2026 Building substantial personal wealth can feel difficult and out of reach. But my guest says that even those with modest means can, with a few…
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The other day, as I was driving my kids to school in our Toyota 4Runner, I noticed a dashboard light indicator turn on. It was a yellow exclamation point inside a horseshoe shape: check tire pressure. I flipped my dashboard display to…
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In most modern high schools, P.E. is a complete blow-off class — something to take when you don’t play a sport, and have to fulfill a health/fitness-related elective. Participants often sit on the bleachers and talk, or half-heartedly…
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Pandora. This was my music player of choice when it launched in the late 2000s. Like a lot of people, I slowly migrated to Spotify and forgot about it. I’ve been souring on Spotify lately, for a variety of reasons. One is that the…
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in: Behavior, Character, Podcast Brett & Kate McKay • April 14, 2026 When people visit a therapist’s office for help with their depression, they often don’t find the relief they’re seeking. That’s because much of the…
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A few years ago, red light therapy started showing up everywhere I looked, and it’s still getting a lot of attention. Fitness influencers evangelize it for muscle recovery, fat loss, and metabolic health. Beauty influencers say it will…
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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to know how to give a commanding whistle with my fingers in my mouth. You know. The kind you see people give in old movies when they’re hailing a taxi or trying to get the peanut guy’s attention at the…
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The Past Life of Cardboard Millionaires. Twelve-year-old me was convinced my baseball card collection was going to make me rich. I still have the album of my most valuable cards from 1994, carefully sleeved, waiting for that big payday.…
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Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk, writer, and one of the most influential spiritual voices of the 20th century — a man preoccupied with solitude, silence, and the demands of the inner life.He’s best known for his spiritual…
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When I first started the AoM podcast nearly 18 years ago, many people didn’t even know what a podcast was. This was a time before Conan, the Kelce brothers, and your sister-in-law all had a show, and there were only about a hundred…
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 Pooping. Everybody does it, but a lot of people are embarrassed to talk about it. That’s a shame, my guest says, not only because your digestive health is incredibly linked to your overall health, but simply for the fact that there is…
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The psychologist John Gottman famously spent decades watching couples fight in his Love Lab at the University of Washington. He’d wire them up with physiological monitors, point a camera at them, and ask them to argue about some real…
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Your wallet is an essential part of your EDC. It carries your identification and your means of payment. In the past few decades, wallet profiles have been getting thinner and thinner. Men don’t want to sit on a George-Costanza-sized lump…
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