Stoicism Meets Authenticity: A Conversation with Dan Munro

A friend kept telling me I had to talk to Dan Munro, so I did, and this is the first of what became several conversations. Dan is a confidence coach with an unusual back story: he was a probation officer working with offenders before he started coaching, which gives him a very clear-eyed read on people who do not want to change.

His angle is honesty. As he puts it, calling yourself "a loser" is not humility, it is just inaccurate. We get into honesty as the root of real confidence, how to spot good coaching from bad, dealing with manipulative people, the darker side of the pick-up world, and what "being yourself" actually means once you strip the slogan off it. There is also a nice coincidence: Donald Robertson, who I had just had on the show, was writing the foreword for Dan's book on honesty.

Dan is from Auckland, lives in the Czech Republic, runs the Brojo men's group, and wrote "The Legendary Life" and "Nothing to Lose".

Full write-up: highexistence.com

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