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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.  #EsquireManAtHisBest #EsquireMAHB2025

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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.

Butch Dalisay, Icon of the Year | Esquire Philippines Man at His Best 2025

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