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 Holiday, 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.

Give them this compass. What's right? How should I live? What's the meaning of all this?

These are timeless questions, the questions that every generation is wrestled with in their own way.

And you have, and at some point your kids will too. But fortunately, the answer comes to us as it so

often does from an ancient prescription.

The goal of life is to live in harmony with nature, Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, would say,

which means to live according to virtue because nature leads to virtue.

And he said that virtue is comprised of four components that are inseparable and yet distinct

and different from one another.

He was talking about the cardinal virtues, courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom.

To millions, they're known as just that, the cardinal virtues, four near universal ideas that you find in

Christianity and Western philosophy, but also in Buddhism, Hinduism, just about every other

spiritual school or religion you can imagine.

In Austin, we have not one winter, but we say three winters. There's winter and then

false spring and then second winter and then second false spring and then third winter and

then finally spring happens,

usually happens right around now, but it can be very deceptive.

But now that spring is finally here, I get to spend more time outside, which is what actually

makes me happy.

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