About Gary Mohler
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Gary Mohler was born in 1942, during World War II, making him 80 years old. After growing up in the Dayton, Ohio area, he attended college at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana.
After graduation, he taught fifth and sixth grade in the Warsaw Community Schools district for 44 years, coaching a variety of sports during his tenure as an elementary school teacher.
Besides teaching school and writing a book, Gary has a variety of interests he enjoys. An avid photographer, Gary photographs wildlife, landscapes, and concerts. However, his favorite photography subjects are his granddaughters, Morgan, Ivy, and Luna. They are the joy of Gary’s life.
Gary also enjoys camping, canoeing, fishing, and working out. His favorite camping and fishing destination is the Boundary Waters in upper Minnesota. Travel is also a passion of his, and he’s traveled extensively throughout the United States, as well as visiting foreign countries such as Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Kenya, Tanzania, Cambodia, and Thailand.
Gary in Thailand holding a 160 pound python.
What Do You Mean By Toughness?
Toughness is a topic that resonated with Gary from the time he was a teenager. He always considered himself to be a reasonably “tough” guy and started studying jujitsu and karate while he was in college. He’s continued to study various martial arts forms throughout his life.
Gary understands that most men admire toughness and those who demonstrate it, enjoying “macho-man” movies and physical sports. Men who admire toughness tend to thrive on danger and taking risks, sometimes taking dangerous chances and doing outlandishly stupid things in the name of proving their toughness.
But men also take up noble causes bigger than themselves, even to the point of risking death. Examples of that type of toughness would include defending families and fighting for freedom.
So why are men the way they are? Should we blame it on testosterone? Maybe, but it seems to be the way men are made. Men tend to measure themselves against other males, even if the comparison only happens in their minds. Questions like, “Am I faster? Am I stronger? Can I endure more?” run through their minds as they constantly compare themselves to the men around them.
Answering The Question Of Who’s The Toughest Dude
In 2009, Gary was struck by the question of what it meant to be tough…really, really tough. Another question quickly followed: If there is such a person as the toughest dude who has ever lived, who is he?
Gary’s book, Who’s the Toughest Dude That’s Ever Lived? is the product of seeking to answer these two questions.
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