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The ancient Greeks believed the human soul had three parts: reason, appetite, and something called thumos<\/em>. Thumos is difficult to translate into English. It encompasses anger, noble spiritedness, pride, ambition, a sense of honor, and the drive to act. The Greeks thought it was essential to living a life of manly virtue, and my guest thinks we could use a lot more of it.<\/p>\n

His name is Mike LeBlanc, and he\u2019s a decorated Marine, a Harvard Business School grad, a tech founder, and the author of What If Anger Is the Answer?<\/em><\/a> Today on the show, Mike and I discuss how the angry energy of thumos can help you close the gap between who you are and who you should be. We discuss why physical training helps cultivate thumos, how it can be an aid in overcoming appetites, overthinking, passivity, and cynicism, and the role it can play in being an effective leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ancient Greeks believed the human soul had three parts: reason, appetite, and something called thumos. Thumos is difficult to translate into English. It encompasses anger, noble spiritedness, pride, ambition, a sense of honor, and the drive to act. The Greeks thought it was essential to living a life of manly virtue, and my guest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42387,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","category-podcast"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1121-538x280.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1121-768x432.png","aom":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1121-372x230.png","reactor-320":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1121-320x180.png","reactor-640":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1121-640x360.png"},"yoast_head":"\nPodcast #1,130: The Lost Virtue of Thumos (And Why Men Need It) | The Art of Manliness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Podcast #1,130: The Lost Virtue of Thumos (And Why Men Need It) | The Art of Manliness\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ancient Greeks believed the human soul had three parts: reason, appetite, and something called thumos. 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