Introducing Carry the Fire

The first three lessons are available free to everyone.

Over the past year, I’ve been building something I’m excited to share.

It’s called Carry the Fire.

This project is the natural outgrowth of much of what I’ve been writing about for years. Most notably that young people need more than information. They need formation.

To make it easier to explore, I’m making the first three lessons available to everyone. They’ll give you a good sense of what the program is and how it works.

If it resonates, the remainder of the program is fully included with a paid subscription. Just $5 per month or $40 per year.

Carry the Fire is built primarily for fathers and sons, though coaches and mentors can use it just as naturally with a small group—as I did with a group of young men that I coached. That experience was the foundation for everything I’ve built here.

At its heart, it’s an attempt to recover the kind of formation that every young person needs—the conversations, challenges, and mentorship that help launch someone well.

It isn’t really meant to be consumed like an online course. It’s a framework for intentionally walking that path together.

I hope you’ll take a look.

Carry the Fire!

Shane

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Use the hyperlinks to quickly navigate to any Carry the Fire Foundations post:

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A Letter to Mentors

Mentor Guide

Part I: A New Lens

Lesson 1: The Choice & The Call

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 2: Being Human in the 21st Century

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 3: The Big Questions

• Challenge and Assignment

Part II: Training as a Way of Life

• Resources: Physical Training Supplementary Materials

Lesson 4: Training as a Way of Life

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 5: Action is a Superpower

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 6: Habit, Behavior Change, and Follow Through

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 7: Belief, Placebo, and Mental Limits

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 8: Training the Mind, Feeding the Right Wolf

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 9: Cognitive Biases and The Rationalizing Mind

• Challenge and Assignment

Part III: A Deeper Why

Lesson 10: What Do You Stand For: The Rationalization Rabbit Hole

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 11: The Ideal

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 12: Values

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 13: The Paradox of Choice

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 14: Transformative Experiences

• Challenge and Assignment

Lesson 15: Rites of Passage

• Challenge and Assignment

• Rite of Passage Planning Guide

• Mentor Guide (read before returning from Rite of Passage)

Lesson 16: Carry the Fire

• Brotherhood Ceremony Mentor Script

• Carry the Fire 10 Rules and Code

• The Expectations/Standards of Conduct

• Continuing to Feed the Right Wolf (Book List and More)

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Resources

• Physical Training Supplementary Materials

• Rite of Passage Planning Guide

• Mentor Guide (read before returning from Rite of Passage)

• Carry the Fire 10 Rules and Code

• The Expectations/Standards of Conduct

• Continuing to Feed the Right Wolf (Book List and More)