A Great Man Examines His Wounds (DQ solo)

The Great Man Within

#121:

“Men are taught over and over when they are boys that a wound that hurts is shameful.

A wound that stops you from continuing to play is a girlish wound.

He who truly is a man keeps walking, dragging his guts behind.

Our story gives a teaching diametrically opposite.

It says that where a man’s wound is, that is where his genius will be.”

• Robert Bly, from his book Iron John

Viktor Frankl has inspired and healed millions from the wounds he suffered in the Holocaust.

Daryl Davis is a black man who has helped 200 KKK members turn in their robes, hoods, and hatred due to examining a racist wound he experienced as a boy.

Jim Kwik is the world’s #1 authority on memory and retention, teaching the top actors/actresses in Hollywood how to memorize their lines…after growing up with the label of “the boy with the broken brain.”

As men, we are hesitant to label any of the pain we’ve experienced – physical, mental, emotional, sexual or spiritual – as a “wound” that we’ve yet to resolve…

…because we believe that will make us less than men.

A Great Man knows the opposite is true.

A Great Man knows his genius, strength and power can be found deep within his wounds.

If, he has the courage to examine them.

In today’s episode of The Great Man Within podcast, we will examine them together.

-Dominick