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.

You're not meant to do it alone. A few experiences in life connect us like parenting. As long as humans have been around,

parents have worried about their kids. Parents have played games with their kids. Parents have

tried to support and encourage and be a good role model for their kids. And in this way,

parenting is one of those rare things that links us across time and space and culture in a

kind of an unbroken chain back thousands and thousands of years. In fact, one of my favorite

stories in the Daily Dad book, and I told this when I was on Tamron Hall, one of the oldest pieces

of evidence of humans in America is the footprints of a parent, probably a mother walking

in what is now White Sands

National Park, carrying and then setting down a young child. And one of the most beautiful

passages in Lucretius, the Roman poet, captures the joy of a father bending down as his children

race to jump into his arms. But just because parenting is this experience

we all share, it doesn't mean that the experience of being a parent is the same, because what

parenting does is it humbles you. We discover a world we don't control, one that is too much for any one

person to do on their own. And this was the idea of the

Daily Dad in the first place to make centuries of hard-won wisdom usable in the modern world.

But again, this isn't something you can just do by yourself.

And that's why we've been working hard on what we're trying to create here at Daily Dad, like a community, a place for parents to come together and share real world parenting stories and hard one wisdom.

A community for parents who want to commit to this daily practice.

Again, one that's built on patience and presence and example and love. And we're going to call it Daily Dad Society. And I wanted to

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