Author Adam Rubin on Embracing Childhood and Pursuing Passion
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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On today’s podcast, Ryan talks to Adam Rubin about his newest book High Five, the childlike mindset, the importance of putting yourself in the shoes of your children, what it means to be fun and silly, and more.
Adam Rubin is a #1 New York Times best selling author of children's books. His books have sold over one million copies. Rubin graduated from Washington University in St. Louis where he studied advertising and worked as an advertising creative director for ten years before leaving his day job to focus on writing books. His new book Gladys the Magic Chicken comes out on October 26th, 2021.
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| 1:35.6 | Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. |
| 1:42.1 | If you're a parent, you have heard, hopefully, of the works of today's guest, Adam Rubin, |
| 1:49.3 | most famously of Dragons Love Tacos, Secret Pizza Party, High Five, Robosauce, all great books that I carry |
| 1:56.8 | in the painted porch. You can get them on Amazon, anywhere books are sold. Adam's a great author. I've known him for more than 10 years now. I talked to him on Daily Stoke about a whole bunch of stuff, following your dreams, creative passions, how to be creative. But I wanted to give you some cuts of that episode where we specifically talk about kind of the childlike mindset, putting yourself in the eyes and shoes and skin of your kids, |
| 2:19.1 | what it means to be silly, what it means to be fun, and how sadly, educationally and |
| 2:24.9 | parentally, we crush these natural aspects of childhood. He talks about how, when he goes and talks |
| 2:33.5 | at these assemblies, he asks the |
| 2:34.7 | kindergartners and the first graders and the second graders and third graders and fourth graders, |
| 2:39.7 | who loves to write, who loves to draw. And he watches as the kids get older, fewer and fewer |
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