Meet our first New Year's Eve Girl...Jessie Yang

Not sure what to do to ring in 2013? Start by checking out our interview with our first-ever New Year's Eve Girl, Ms. Jessie Yang: A new year demands a fresh perspective. So why not a new talent to admire as well? Meet Jessie Yang, our first-ever New Year’s Eve Girl, and one of the sweetest,...

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The Problem (as I see it)

I've been putting off talking about last week's shooting because I wanted to give myself time to wrap my head around it. It's pretty clear, if you spend any time at all on social media, that things have been sharply divided yet again. However, since I have a background as a scholar (yup...one of those damned liberal intellectuals), I've devoted my time to presenting figures and fielding counter-figures. Here's...

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How many challenges can you face?

So, I've decided to take up salsa dancing. OK, let me explain: I'm not really comfortable on the dance floor. Everyone has this assumption that because I'm a musician, I should have a natural sense of rhythm when it comes to moving to music. On top of that, I've spent years (decades, really) accompanying dance classes on the piano. So I should be a great dancer, right? Wrong. I have no idea if...

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Getting Ready for the New You

Last week, The Man Sphere launched a wildly successful special edition called "The New You Issue." In it, we focused on a lot of subjects designed to lay the groundwork for the classic "New Year's Resolution" game people play every January 1st. The thing is, without some groundwork, there's really no chance of success. You can't resolve to lose weight if you don't do two things first: determine...

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Goal planning for 2013

Forget about makinig vague resolutions this year. Mitch Parker shares some tips on setting concrete goals for 2013, so you can actually get somewhere on your trek forward:http://themansphere.com/2013-goal-planni...

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Local or Global: Where's your comfort zone?

As I was reading this blog post from Derek Sivers, I realized two things: I'm not as alone as I sometimes think I should be, and I've been missing blog posts. Oops on the second...it was a big issue day on Monday over at The Man Sphere with preparing and editing for the "New You Issue," so I've been preoccupied with getting all of that together. Now, on the matter of the first, I should explain....

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