Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Are you doing this for them?

Corporations spend a lot of time and money making sure their interests are taken care of.

Wealthy and powerful people spend a lot of their time in making sure their interests are taken care of.

People with weird and extreme beliefs spend a lot of time and money making sure their interests are taken care of.

And the result is that our politics,

our world, looks a lot like you'd expect a world driven by these interests to look like.

Meanwhile, millions of parents go to sleep each night worrying about their kids, and then they don't vote. They worry about the future they're leaving their children,

and then they don't take the most basic step they can take towards doing anything about it.

In effect, they are seeding the field to the people in interest that don't have their kids' interests at heart.

How crazy is that?

They all have their reasons. They're too busy.

The whole system is broken.

One vote can't possibly make a difference.

Oh, really?

You're busy than those busy, powerful people?

In a recent email over at Daly Stoke, we talked about this man in the South who made a decision to vote in the primary elections in his state in the deep south, even though his political preferences were not even close to being represented. As it happens in choosing

between the lesser of two evils, he cast the deciding vote in the election. It was literally

decided by one vote. Today is election day in America, and countries all over the world will have theirs

sometime soon. If you don't vote, if you can't be bothered to participate, then how can you say

...