Daily Dad on the Importance of Cultivating a Competitive Spirit
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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On today’s episode of the podcast, Ryan talks to his friend and writing partner Nils Parker about the failure of parents to explain how things work, how to balance discipline and sensitivity, how to teach your kids to use the competitive spirit to propel them further, 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. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Dad podcast. On the weekends, sometimes we bring you best of sessions on |
| 0:40.9 | parenting advice. Sometimes I do little deep dives into parenting ideas or issues that I'm having. |
| 0:48.8 | And then on my favorite episodes, my writing partner and I, Niels Parker, kick around parenting issues. |
| 0:56.4 | Niels, I was thinking because this weekend, actually tomorrow is Clark's last soccer game |
| 1:04.6 | of this season. This was his first season doing it like team soccer. He did like this thing |
| 1:09.7 | called soccer shots a couple times. |
| 1:12.0 | This is like sort of first season. |
| 1:14.3 | I thought we talked about sports because it's something you start young but then sort of runs as a through line through most kids' lives. |
| 1:24.2 | It's so, it's so funny. |
| 1:26.5 | Like he's, we, he wasn't doing that great at first. |
| 1:30.7 | And then we realized like, oh, he doesn't understand how the game works. |
| 1:36.6 | So like, it was like, no, no, no, this is your goal. |
| 1:40.3 | Your job is to kick it in there. |
| 1:42.9 | And when they go the other way, your job is to stop it. |
| 1:46.1 | And then all of a sudden, he started doing like 50 times better. |
| 1:49.1 | And it was like, this is probably and unfortunately very common. |
| 1:53.8 | We think he's having this issue or that issue. |
| 1:57.8 | And really he just has no idea what the hell is going on because we didn't bother |
| 2:01.8 | to explain it to him. |
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