How Have We Gotten So Far From This?
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Remember: A little fellow follows you. Your kids are always watching. They’re the ones you should want to impress. They’re the ones you should never want to let down. They’re the ones you’re not only fighting for, but whose standards—whose natural admiration and love—you should always be fighting to live up to.
They are the only ones whose opinions matter.
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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. |
| 0:12.3 | 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. |
| 0:24.1 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.3 | Don't let your kids down. |
| 0:35.6 | Do you know the story of the 300 Spartans? Maybe you do. It was first |
| 0:39.5 | immortalized by Herodotus and then passed down through the ages by Plutarch and other writers. |
| 0:45.9 | Most recently, it was the basis for the awesome Zach Snyder movie by the same name and Stephen |
| 0:51.5 | Presfield's beautiful novel, Gates of Fire. If you don't know the |
| 0:55.5 | story, here's what happens. The ancient Greek king Leonidas led some 7,000 men, 300 of which were |
| 1:01.8 | Spartans, in a battle against an invading army of more than 300,000 soldiers led by Xerxes the Great. |
| 1:08.7 | The Greeks held the front line for two days, but on the third they were out-maneuvered. |
| 1:13.3 | Leonidas ordered the 300 Spartans to remain in fight, sacrificing himself and his men to save Greece. |
| 1:20.7 | There is a part left out of most retellings, though, that is worth thinking about today. |
| 1:25.0 | How did Leonidas choose the 400 warriors to lead out to the |
| 1:28.7 | hot gates to battle an overwhelming enemy? Obviously, he picked his best and bravest soldiers, |
| 1:34.3 | but there was something else they all had in common. They were all fathers of living sons. |
| 1:40.4 | You might think that this is exactly what the leaders would have tried to avoid, that the ones with families would have been allowed to sit out this potential suicide mission. |
| 1:48.2 | But that's not how it worked in Sparta. |
| 1:50.8 | Fathers were chosen because fathers would not want to let their sons down. |
| 1:56.0 | These fathers would fight most bravely, most fiercely, not only to protect what they had back home, but also because |
| 2:02.5 | they would not dare to abandon their comrades or behave cowardly for fear of letting the family down, |
| 2:09.8 | especially the one that so looked up to them. How far we have gotten from this, you have parents |
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