One tells him strength is dominance, success is volume, and authority comes from making other people smaller. The other tells him to apologize for being a man at all - to shrink, to soften, to disappear into something the world can manage.
Both are lies.
The Forgotten Standards for Men is a return to the truth that built honorable men long before either voice existed. One hundred lists. One thousand truths. Ten categories that cover every arena of a man's life: Manhood and Identity, Brotherhood, Fatherhood, Marriage and Devotion, Leadership, Work and Provision, Physical Discipline, Mental Toughness, Legacy and Purpose, and Faith and Spiritual Warfare.
Each list is direct. Each truth is biblical. Every category closes with ten quotes from men who have lived these standards - including Tony Dungy, Tim Tebow, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Mark Wahlberg, and Tony Evans - and ten practice steps to move these truths from the page into daily life.
This is not a book about what the culture celebrates. It is a book about what God requires. Direct. Biblical. Forged in the fire of personal experience.
Written by a man who had his neck broken at twenty by a drunk driver who never stopped, who lost his sight years later, who has stood in the wreckage of things he thought would last forever - and stood back up. The Forgotten Standards for Men is for the husband who knows the man he wants to be but cannot find a map to him. For the father raising sons in a world that no longer agrees on what a son should become. For the young man looking for standards no one taught him. For the older man who knows the standards but feels the world abandoning them.
You don't have to read it in order. Open to the category that's calling your name. Mark what hits you. Come back to it. Let it shape you.
The standards in this book are not new. They are ancient. They are biblical. They are the standards every honorable man has lived by since the beginning - and they are the standards still available to any man willing to carry them, no matter what the world has forgotten.
