Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you

with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy,

by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Apply your opinions at home.

Like any reasonable adult, you've got opinions about the world, how the country should be

run, what courage looks like in a politician, what a great coach does, what's expected of an

athlete in crunch time, what loyalty they owe the team. Maybe you think budget should be balanced,

maybe you really admire the boldness of certain entrepreneurs. I think the world needs more of them.

These are all perfectly valid opinions.

The problem is that as just a single voter or a fan, we have very little say over events.

Yet we waste so much time tweeting, complaining, venting over dinner.

And what do we neglect in the meantime?

The decisions we make in our own lives, how we organize our own families, our own budgets,

how we respond to pressure and temptation in our own lives.

A critic once advocated that Sparta become a democracy,

Lysurgis, their great lawmaker, responded with a quip, make your own

household a democracy first. Because it's easy to have opinions about what other people do,

less fun to hold yourself to your own standards. You don't like the ever-expanding national debt?

Okay, but are your finances in great shape? You hate these ballplayers who demand trades and

abandoned teams who made them, but don't you have your eye on a new career opportunity? You don't

like celebrities making a mockery of marriage. It has your own these days. You think these

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