Episode 30

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14th Apr 2021

Lonely Men are Dangerous Men: 3 Keys to Beat Loneliness

  • Lonely - "Being without company, cut off from others"
  • According to a recent YouGov poll in the UK, almost one in five men (18 per cent) owned up to not having a single close friend. Furthermore, one in three (32 per cent) stated that they didn’t have a best friend.
  • However, the survey also suggests that while men appear to be lonelier than women, in reality they’re less likely to own up to feeling lonely. 
  • In 2018 the UK suicide rate rose to its highest level since 2002 – over 6,500 people took their own life (11.2 per 100,000 people) – a figure up 12 per cent on the previous year. And of those registered suicides, a staggering 75 per cent were men. Likewise, in the US, suicide as a whole is the highest it has been in decades and as of 2017, the male suicide rate was over three times that of the female rate.
3 Ways to Beat Loneliness

  1. Evaluate Your Friends
    • Why do you have friends and who are your friends?
    • One of the most common friends we have as men is rust friends instead of real friends
    • The thing we want to do as men is take the time to evaluate our friendships 

  1. Prioritize Your Connections
    • Men are created for community
    • You need men to be connected with
    • Prioritizing your connections with other men is something you should schedule

  1. Recognize Your Apathy
    • Busyness can be a sign of misaligned priorities
    • Apathy in one relationship breeds to other relationships
    • Relationships that matter take work
    • Too many men use their family to justify their lack of friends and feel ok about it

  • Lonely men are dangerous men, but you can do something about your loneliness 

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