If you're looking to brag as a man: The greatest brag is being present for your family, responsible, harmonious, healthy, sane, balanced, strong and not avoidant of the difficulties that come with being true to your word. To any serious person, that's the only brag that will ever qualify. Nothing else is truly impressive to any person of substance. This much is guaranteed. Anything else than that is just you layering lies over your pain and your inability to take charge and, most importantly, your fear of taking responsibility for what is truly hard in life - for what demands you at your absolute best. Any loser can hit a jackpot once or twice in life, but building something that lasts is never accidental. It takes real work, real effort, real determination. You can't luck your way into it. Because it's something that is tested in years and decades. In diplomacy, communication, sacrifice. It takes the hard days, and the good days, and the many mediocre ones in between. Growing up is about showing up when things get rough and leaving only when the work is done. Not when you're tired, not when you're uncomfortable, not when you're down and scared and uncertain. Only when you've gotten good with your conscience. Any man who has peace and respect in his house, to me, is immediately respectable. Because I know the price of that peace - and everyone else does too. A strong man plays with the hand he is dealt. He doesn't leave for a winning table. Because that's not his game to play. That's not where his lessons are. He wins the respect of his peers by playing the game regardless of his circumstance. And, by accepting his fate, he also wins the blessing of fortune.