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Aug

Esquire's 75 Things Every Man Should Do

Here’s my favorites from the list:

  1. Make a list of seventy-five things you to do before you die.
  2. Drive the Great Ocean Road in Australia. Or the Pacific Coast Highway.
  3. Make a perfect omelet.
  4. Recognize the accomplishments of others.
  5. Cultivate a reputation.
  6. Carry a totem in your pocket. A watch, a badge, a medal, a poker chip, a silver certificate — for one year. Then give it away.
  7. Help someone dig out.
  8. Live outside the homeland.
  9. Choose a word or phrase and actively work to never use it again.
  10. Eat mussels in Bruges. One of my favorite foods.
  11. Cook the same thing over and over again until you are known for it. The hardest part is picking something that’s versatile yet memorable. Stews, roasts, and comfort foods would work well.
  12. Get very good at a sport that isn’t a sport. Discuss this with no one. Use it when the time comes. Rest assured, the time will come. When it does, don’t take over, don’t push others around. Just execute and dominate.
  13. Write someone else’s life story without mentioning yourself. Makes a pretty good gift.
  14. Sell everything you don’t need once.
  15. Take a vow. Keep it. Whatever you choose, it should be hard and it should be obvious. Measure your own habits carefully; a good vow should put you in deep tension with them.
  16. Eat a six-course meal that you prepared.
  17. Spend some time working for tips.
  18. Make a movie, even a short one.
  19. Make beer, wine, or moonshine.
  20. Pull something off the street or the dump and fix it up.
  21. Sleep outside for a week. Backcountry or back porch. Keep the electronics at home or turned off.
  22. Go to Paris. Tell no one where you are. Stay there for two weeks. Paris is pricey nowadays but I think this would be applicable to anywhere in South America, lesser-traveled Europe, and Asia.

10 months ago 11 notes

manly!/list/link/