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.

Have you taught them this virtue? Obviously, you want your kids to be smart. You want your kids to be

kind. You want them to be readers. You want them to be curious. I've talked about all of this before.

For some reason, though, we haven't talked much about patience, which is another critical virtue in a

world where attention spans are shrinking, well, things of real

import always seem to take longer than we expect, be it success or political change.

I wish more parents realize that patience is one of the most important ingredients that children

need to develop. Gary Vaynerchuk writes in his new book, 12 and a half, leveraging the

emotional ingredients necessary for

business success. We would have much happier children who wouldn't need escapism to cope with

the stress that impatience creates. A staggering number of people from 18 to 30 feel anxiety

about their careers because they don't have a good relationship with patience. We have to teach our kids that good

things come to those who wait. We have to remind them of the unfortunate truth of Hofstadter's law,

that things always take longer than you expect. It takes time to find out who you're supposed to be in

this life, to find the right person to marry, to build up equity in your home, to get good at the

guitar, to see the results of your diet. More time than you think than you plan for than you hoped for.

A big part of being able to handle that reality in the future is learning patience now,

to wait until dinner is ready, for the computer to restart, for the traffic to clear on the way

to their friend's house.

Patience is a virtue.

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