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"I'm not reaching for your brain, I'm reaching for your gut and your heart. If I can get you there, then I think I have you as a person. And that's what I'm trying to reach." — Butch Dalisay, Esquire Philippines' Icon of the Year

Every year, Esquire Philippines presents Man at His Best, the local iteration of a global signature event where we honor the visionary Filipino men and women actively shaping society's future through innovation, leadership, and creativity.

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00:00I think what I try to do is I write with feeling.
00:15Emotion is very important to me, the effect and impact,
00:19because if I'm not reaching for your brain,
00:23I'm reaching for your gut and your heart.
00:25If I can get you there, then I think I have you as a person.
00:29And that's what I'm trying to read.
00:32Let me be very clear about this.
00:34I never thought of myself as a thinker.
00:37To begin with, I'm not a theorist.
00:40I don't even think of myself as an academic.
00:43I've always thought of myself as articulate pedestrian
00:47who happened to have done well enough to get into things like,
00:51you know, teaching and all these other things.
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