Izzat Abdullaev | IELTS 8.5

#SayYesToBooks

📖 Just finished this book from 1990. Not gonna lie, I expected something dusty, but boy was it a page-turner.

🗽 Well basically, the book’s central focus is that most of what we call toxic masculinity isn’t too much masculinity. It’s an unfinished version of it, a boy’s psychology in a man’s body. The authors basically repeat that a mature man draws on four energies: the King’s order, the Warrior’s discipline, the Magician’s awareness and the Lover’s aliveness. Each one has a shadow with two poles. You either inflate into the tyrant or the manipulator, or you collapse into the weakling or the numb, disengaged man. Finding the sweet spot in the middle is brutally difficult.

🤎 Some chapters made me roll my eyes. Most of them I couldn’t put down. Either way, I’m glad I read it. Anyways, I’ll drop its pdf down below. Care to read if you will.

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