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 Holliday, 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. They see you disheveled and

groggy. They see you busy and preoccupied. They see you argue with your spouse.

They see you burned out after a long week.

They see regular old normal you.

But what about some of those peak career moments when you sold your company?

When you were invited to that special reception at a fancy place downtown,

that first day of shooting for your new screenplay,

when you were interviewed for that

big morning show, when that raise finally came through. No, they don't see that. Because these are the

kinds of things that you get babysitters for. Because these are the things that come in over email or

happen at the office while they're at school sitting in a classroom bored out of their mind.

These are the things that happen after they go to bed. These are the things that you're not

supposed to bring kids to that you're not sure if they'll like. We talk in the Daily Dad book about

we talk in the Daily Dad book about how you have to let your kids see you work. One story we tell

is about Bruce Springsteen,

whose impression of and understanding of his mother was changed completely

after he saw her inner element, crushing it at her job one day.

Your kids love the regular normal at-home you, of course,

but they should also get the chance to see the professional you,

the successful you, the successful

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