Soft-spoken and with the natural grace and charm of an elder statesman, Jason Wilson has been working to heal young people and families for more than two decades. He now directs The Cave of Adullum Transformational Training Academy, which helps young men learn essential life skills, patience, decency and honesty via its martial-arts-based curriculum.
Wilson has gained an enormous following, both on social media, where he posts to more than 1.7 million followers, and in his Detroit gym, where classes are booked out months in advance and waiting lists are long.
Wilson doesn’t like being called an influencer. And he declined to denounce some of the hugely influential men preaching thinly veiled misogyny to their millions of followers online. But with his calm demeanor, deep thinking and fierce intellect, and his focus on steering boys and young men with positivity and enlightenment, he has become a natural foil to the aggressive, angry men posting online in what has become known as the “manosphere.”
In a long interview between training sessions in his gym, Wilson shared his insights, concerns, hopes and inspiration for American males.
Here are five of the most important things he said:
