Some of the strongest men in the world are trained on how to rest even under pressure because

they know exhaustion is dangerous to the mission. Today we're talking about how well-rested men

lead their families well. Welcome back to Dad Tired Daily. Today's episode of Dad Tire Daily is

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below. This week, I was reading about how special operations teams or military pilots, they are

trained how to rest their minds and their bodies, even in the middle of combat zones,

which feels counterintuitive, like not a great time or space to take a nap.

But we know that if you are too exhausted, if you get overly exhausted, you start to get sloppy.

And when you're sloppy and you're tired, you make bad decisions, and everyone

around you can be affected, and the mission at large can be affected.

And I was thinking, man, if it's important for those guys to learn, it probably is also important

for us as men trying to live on mission to be the husband's, disciples, fathers, men of

God that we're trying to be, to also not be exhausted and learn how to

train ourselves to rest. I think a lot of guys feel like maybe you're lazy or you're just

unmotivated. And sometimes, dude, you're just really tired. And we live in a culture where it's like,

you're not supposed to say that. If you feel really tired or you feel exhausted, you just keep grinding. That's like the man thing to do. Just keep grinding. And so maybe you feel like you're not accomplishing enough or your life's not in order. So it's like, all right, what books do I need to read? I need to listen to this podcast today. And I need to accomplish these 10 things. And I resonate with all that deeply. That's actually

my personality. I feel better about myself when I accomplish more stuff. And so sometimes it's hard

for us as men to slow down and feel like the greatest thing I can actually accomplish today is to rest.

The greatest gift I can actually give my wife and my kids and the people around me today

is to be well rested, even though that's like a really hard and even sometimes frowned upon

idea. I actually text one of my best friends who's a former F-35 military pilot for the Marines.

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