Dr. Nate Zinsser on Raising Confident and Competent Kids

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to the director of West Point’s Performance Psychology Program Dr. Nate Zinsser about his new book The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance, teaching your kids to build confidence by breaking tasks down into their component parts, how to distinguish between confidence and teach your kids to be competent, 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 the
0:24.0	world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. Either right when we get back from a run in the
0:33.7	morning or more often when I get back from writing for the day, I walk into the kitchen,
0:44.3	I open up the cabinet, and I say, it's vitamin time, and my youngest runs over, he's two, and I give him one high of vitamin in one hand and another high of vitamin in the other hand, and he eats it,
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1:39.1	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday.
1:40.8	Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. I think we all want to
1:46.4	raise confident kids. And this is where this idea of self-esteem comes from. But of course,
1:53.6	we also want to raise competent kids. And I think it's the tension between these two things
1:59.4	that's really difficult, right? You can fill your
2:02.7	kid full of quote unquote confidence, but if it's not based on anything, if the self-esteem is just
2:08.8	you whispering in their ear about how they're God's gift to humanity, I think we all know deep down
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