Robert Glover: The Architecture of the Rebuilt Performance. What No More Mr Nice Guy Builds (Men's Work, Ep 4)

Episode Four, Robert Glover: The Architecture of the Rebuilt PerformanceWhat No More Mr Nice Guy Actually BuildsRobert Glover holds a PhD in psychology. He was a licensed marriage and family therapist. He is the only author in this series, besides Moore, with genuine clinical credentials in the relevant domain. The covert contract is one of the most precise and clinically accurate observations in all of the men’s work literature.

What the prescription does with that diagnosis is the subject of this episode.ExaminedRobert Glover, No More Mr Nice Guy (2003).Key PointsGlover had the clinical tools. He prescribed a behavioural change and called it integration. That is not the failure of a man without tools. That is the failure of a man who had the tools and used them on the symptom rather than the root.The opposite of a wound is still organised around the wound.

A man whose entire architecture was built around seeking approval does not become integrated by learning to withhold approval-seeking. He becomes the opposite version of the same man.The framework never distinguishes between niceness and goodness. Niceness is a performance. Goodness is a character. Glover correctly identified niceness as a problem. He did not adequately protect goodness in the prescription that followed.

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How this page was made: the text is the episode's own show notes from The Architect Speaks, written by Michael Lauria.