Be Like This
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Ryan discusses why you must give your children the love and support that they need, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.8 | Be like this. We talked recently about being dad and the difference between wrestling with |
| 0:40.6 | difficulty and stupidity. The difference is captured perfectly in this viral video of a little |
| 0:46.2 | girl trying to do box jumps. To start, the video is 57 seconds long rather than the six hours |
| 0:51.7 | that Bean Dad let his daughter struggle. But the little child |
| 0:54.8 | tries and fails nine times. The dad enters the frame and gives them a pep talk. In the very next |
| 1:01.9 | attempt, he lands the jump. On top of the box, double fist pumps before jumping into their |
| 1:09.1 | father's arms. And this moment of triumph shared between father and child |
| 1:14.2 | is actually what we're talking about when we say lookter at emergo struggle and they emerge. |
| 1:21.4 | It's not about pointless struggle. It's not about working on your puzzle while they work on theirs. |
| 1:26.2 | It's about being on their side, |
| 1:32.0 | encouraging them, picking them up when they fall, telling them what they need to hear when they need to hear it. It's like being box jump dad, not being dad. As parents who want the best for |
| 1:41.1 | their kids, we all need a reminder, something tangible to remind |
| 1:45.2 | us. Difficulty is forging our kids who they're meant to be. We have to be there for them and |
| 1:49.8 | encourage them and believe in them. Of course, that doesn't mean we need to do everything for them. |
| 1:54.7 | We need to let them struggle and emerge. Remember that iron sharpens iron, resistance builds |
| 1:59.5 | muscle. They'll be better for it. |
| 2:01.5 | And look, this is one of the reasons be created, the Daily Dad, Lukder et Emergo challenge coin. |
| 2:07.6 | It says Luptur et Emergo, and it has a timeless symbol of strength and resilience, iron sharpening iron. |
| 2:14.3 | The other side features the mantra good but not easy, surrounded by the cycle. |
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