How Are You Challenging Yourself?
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Look, we know our kids grow when we sign them up for things—when they do sports, when they take classes, when they volunteer for an event at school or in the community. And that’s why we sign them up for all of this. But what about us?
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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. |
| 0:14.8 | 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. |
| 0:31.4 | Look, learning isn't this thing that you just do in school, you just do when you're young. |
| 0:36.1 | It has to be something you do your |
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| 1:48.1 | How are you challenging yourself? |
| 1:51.9 | Look, we know our kids grow when we sign them up for things, |
| 1:53.9 | when they do sports, when they take classes, |
| 1:56.7 | when they volunteer for an event at school or in the community. |
| 1:59.5 | It makes them have to figure stuff out on their own. |
| 2:01.5 | It broadens their view of the world. It gives them opportunities to figure stuff out on their own. It broadens their view of the world. |
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