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Are You Serious?

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Michael Foster
Feb 28, 2024
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Do you want to be taken seriously as a man? Most men do, but most men equally find it difficult to be the sort of man that others take seriously. A man with gravitas.

Men need gravitas like women need beauty. The term is Latin—a Roman virtue referring to something like seriousness. If we were to translate it, however, better words might be dignity or wei…

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