Everything is Easy Compared to This
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Ryan talks about why you need to be the constant that your kids can depend on, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
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| 1:40.1 | Everything is easy compared to this. While it's hard to be away from your children, it can also |
| 1:47.1 | be hard to be with your children, at least for some of us compared to our work, because we're good |
| 1:53.5 | at what we do, because what we do doesn't talk back, because we're rewarded financially with |
| 1:58.9 | recognition for our successes at work, and often right away, |
| 2:03.1 | whereas the time and energy invested in our children can be a thankless or an exercise in delayed |
| 2:08.5 | gratification at best. It's difficult to admit this, but it's true, and it's something that |
| 2:15.0 | the talented and successful have often struggled with for a long time. |
| 2:19.1 | The wife of one of Queen Elizabeth's private secretary would observe this of the Queen. |
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