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.

How to get them to read or do anything. We want our kids to read. We want them to read instead of watching so much TV or playing with the iPad, so we make up rules or create incentives to motivate them to pick up a book. I'll give you a dollar for every book you finish this year. But what we don't do enough is actually the easiest and clearest form of teaching.

We don't provide a good example.

How often do your kids catch you reading?

How often do they see you with a book in your hands?

You want them to read, but do you read regularly to them?

You tell them books are important that books are fun, but where is the evidence?

If you want your

kids to read more, show them what a reader looks like. Talk to them about books. Make books a central

part of your house and your lives. Think about those curse words they know. You've actually

been trying to get them not to use them, But where did your kids pick them up by watching

you? And what's true for books is true for just about anything, being healthy, being kind,

being a hard worker. So if you want your kids to read, then read. And if you're looking to be

a better reader, we designed this Daily Stoic Challenge, or a course recently called the Daily Stoic Read to Lead challenge, as Truman said, not all readers are leaders, but all leaders have to be readers.

That's the idea. How can you be a better reader? How can you get serious about this thing? How can you access all the wisdom

that's out there in the world? How can you build a reading practice? And we built this awesome

challenge. It's built off my reading practice, but also the practices of Seneca and Marks

and all the Stoics, plus other wise figures from history. And this is a live course. It's going to

start on Monday, May 17th. We all move this course together at the same

time. Registration is now officially open, but registration will close on Sunday, May 16th. At midnight,

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