Daily Dad on the Gap Between Taste and Ability

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Daily Dad

Dads, Society & Culture, Education, Parenting, Wisdom, Ryan Holiday, Kids & Family, Relationships, Fatherhood, Self-improvement

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about Tom Brady’s career as one of the best NFL quarterbacks of all time, how to teach your kids to properly handle their emotions, the gap between taste and ability, and more.

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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.
0:12.9	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
0:23.8	the world.
0:24.7	Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.
0:31.2	All right, everyone.
0:32.6	Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast.
0:38.2	During the week, we bring you meditations on how to be a better parent.
0:41.7	Sometimes on the weekend, we do like an extended deep dive into a specific topic I've been
0:46.2	thinking about.
0:47.2	Sometimes we bring you interviews with guests.
0:49.0	And then my favorite episodes are when Nealz Parker, my partner, and myself dig into parenting topics.
0:58.0	And that's what we're going to do in today's episode. I don't know when you'll be listening to this, but Niels, as I was thinking about what we could talk about today, I was watching the Saints game. And I watched Tom Brady break that. Can't say iPad. Actually,
1:17.2	Microsoft wants you to know he was, in fact, breaking a Microsoft Surface tablet.
1:23.1	Per their branding agreement with the NFL. But anyways, I watched him get so angry and upset. And it was
1:30.3	funny because I don't know if we talked about it, but I really liked the Seth Wickersham
1:34.1	biography of the Patriots and that just came out. And he was talking, it struck me in the book,
1:41.1	he was talking about how like Tom Brady would break video games and golf clubs as a kid
1:46.5	it was just crazy to me that like you know he's like in his mid 40s which is also insane but that he
1:52.2	has been on that ride for 40 odd years of like getting so intense about things that he breaks stuff when it doesn't go his way.
2:06.3	And in the book he was talking a little bit about how I forget which one of Tom's kids,
2:12.2	but like clearly got that like gene and is like going through it now.
2:20.3	And how Tom's like, you don't want to get on this ride man it's not fun even though it's made him so successful he's like it's it's not worth
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