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Wonder Woman: Only Love Can Save the World
Love creates the hero in the awesome “Wonder Woman”. In the touching moment of the climactic battle, Gal Gadot’s Diana sources power from her memories of those she loves, and those who love her. Her...
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Villains and Heroes and Hesitation
—Every villain is a hero in his own mind.~Tom HiddlestonThe modern spirit is a hesitant one.Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult of...
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Don’t Call Yourself a Hero
—It’s no secret I write a lot about heroism. I’ve had some people suggest I write about it too much. Others suggest I don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, and laugh at my supposed “naivety.”...
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Heroism is a Mindset, Not a Moment
Heroism is a mindset, not a moment. You don’t have to wait for a once-in-a-lifetime, life-or-death situation to be heroic. Although confronting danger engages our heroic instincts, there are many...
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Cultivate a Heroic Mindset
Continued from Part 1…Like any philosophy of life, Live The Hero requires some mindfulness. Like anything worthwhile in life, change takes some work. Many of us don’t take time to periodically...
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The Heroic Life is All About Motion
Continued from Part 3…There really is no “big secret” of life. Rather, life is simply meant to be lived. Those with a heroic mindset know they can live how they wish, as long as they do not harm...
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Man Alive! Can a Man Still Be a Hero in This Modern Age?
— Men have come to me over the years with a desire to be a hero –– sometimes for a woman, a company or a movement… It seems to be part of the male psyche that goes back to the beginning and is equated...
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Brickley’s Code
“Brickley!” yelled his boss Marquis, “if you don’t get out of the way I’ll kick your ass for good.” And Marquis, darker but plump himself, wearing an atrocious suit with orange lines in it, smiled that...
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Failure to Launch: A Challenge to Young Men
“Young men between 25 and 31 are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.” — from ‘The Boy Crisis,’ by Warren Farrell and John Gray. Can’t say I blame them...
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Adventure, Danger, Honor, and Glory
My inner barbarian awoke from its civilized slumber while binge-watching documentaries on wars of conquest and the rise and fall of empires. I felt unsettled, tugged by two contrary forces: one...
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The Male Heroism
— How do we transform male heroism into everyday courage? Il est plus facile de mourir pour la femme qu’on aime que de vivre avec elle. (It is easier to die for the women one loves than to live with...
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Introduction to Live The Hero: A Practical Guide to Everyday Heroism
When was the last time you thought about what it means to be a hero? Have you ever really considered the behaviors and actions we judge to be “heroic”? Many of us take for granted that we know heroism...
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It’s a Strange Time to be a Police Widow
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever. The goal is to create something that will. —Chuck Palahniuk, author of “Fight Club” Twenty years ago—on September 29th, 2000—I was working as a civilian with...
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How To Be a New Hero
Our species has been exposed. Given the availability of cheap junk food, between 40% and 50% of Americans are now obese. Given the availability of a neo-fascist leader, half the country will vote for...
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The Wounded Hero
You may have found yourself attracted to the vision of the New Hero that I’ve begun describing in my Saturday “Kirism Today” posts. Kirism is a demanding philosophy because it asks you to think for...
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Heroes Don’t Have To Be Super
I remember all-too-clearly the first time I saw a real-life hero. It happened when I was around ten years old. I was crouched on the cold tile floor of the small bathroom in my childhood home. Back...
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3 Steps to Everyday Heroism
There have always been quiet heroes. There were those doctors who treated AIDs patients in the early days of that dreadful disease, when everyone was afraid to go anywhere near the infected. There were...
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The Vital Purpose of Mythology and Heroic Stories
We are made of stories. We may have bodies of flesh and blood, but our lives are built from the stories we tell about ourselves. Our personal stories describe our interests, loves, hates, careers,...
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There Are Capes Everywhere
My last article encouraged the exploration of historical mythology to find the eternal lessons of heroism throughout time. But what about the state of mythology and the human heroic legacy in the...
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Why We Need Heroism More Than Ever
Heroism is more than risking one’s life to save someone else in a moment of physical danger. As an aspect of humanity, it encompasses a wide range of behaviors and emotions, as I’ve written before....
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