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.

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We all put up a front. We wear any number of masks, one that covers up our pain, our fears,

our doubts, perhaps even one that displays the person that we truly are, but that might be

frowned upon by our religion, our culture, or our gender. And this quote from the comedian

Michael Ian Black in his powerful little book,

A Better Man, might strike you as familiar, even if you're not a man or a comedian. For years,

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