Author: Scott Galloway Simon & Schuster, 2025
BOOK REVIEW: Notes on Being a Man
Author: Scott Galloway Simon & Schuster, 2025
Review by John J. Wernert, MD
We all enjoy authors who seem to understand our perceptions of life, and Scott Galloway has been a favorite of mine over the past eight years. An edgy, provocative thinker, Mr. Galloway has constructed an ethos focusing on the challenges and opportunities surrounding technology, business development and brand marketing. He barely graduated from college( partied too much), started his career at Morgan Stanley as a broker( got bored), became a serial tech entrepreneur( three successes, four failures) and leveraged his experiences as a Professor of Marketing at NYU’ s Stern School of Business( still there). He wrote several books on the future of the big technology firms( see The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google). I also read some of his early articles about achieving happiness and became a regular listener to his popular podcast Pivot, which he started in 2018 with his cohost
Kara Swisher. Even though the Pivot podcast focused on the ballooning tech business world, Galloway would gravitate frequently to one of his major concerns, the social decline and failing opportunities of young men in America. He is a big believer in the importance of masculinity and strength and has spoken from a more liberal perspective of disturbing social and political shifts that are forever changing our gender roles for men, exploring“ what it means to be a responsible human flooded with testosterone.”
His newest book asks the question,“ Why have boys and young men fallen so fast?” and uses research and social science to explore why men and boys are in crisis today. Galloway explores the alarming observation that we are creating a generation of young men from all backgrounds whom he believes are: unbearably lonely, not economically viable, not emotionally viable and socially adrift.
And the danger to our society is a generation of isolated and under-
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