How Will You Choose To Look At This?
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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There’s so much we don’t control as parents. But there is one thing we do control...
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| 0:00.0 | I did a talk outside of Atlanta last week, Lake O'Connie, I think. Anyways, I was doing a talk, and I got up on stage wearing one of my new sweaters from Quince. It was this sort of black, thick, cable net sweater. Looked great. Felt great. And they're kind of my new thing. I've been wearing them all the time. If you've seen me in any one of my talks or maybe even some of the B-roll I sometimes shoot beforehand, you've probably seen me in some Quince stuff. |
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| 1:58.5 | podcast where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 2:07.9 | 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 |
| 2:20.1 | you for listening, and we hope this helps. There's so much we don't control as parents. We don't |
| 2:27.4 | control what's happening in the world. We don't control what our kids are going through. We don't |
| 2:30.9 | even really control what they do, not as much as we'd like to think |
| 2:34.3 | anyway. But the one thing we do control the Stokes would say is how we choose to look at things. |
| 2:39.1 | We choose what handle we grab. In each situation, we choose what story we tell ourselves about it. |
| 2:46.6 | You can walk into a room you just cleaned up and find it littered once again with toys. |
| 2:51.1 | This can drive you nuts or you can choose to see it as what it is also well played in, a room |
| 2:55.7 | performing its function, a function you will one day miss. You can fight like crazy with your |
| 3:01.1 | teenager over every little thing, or you can step back and realize that this is an important |
| 3:05.4 | part of their development, where they figure your life out, where yes, they rebel against authority. You can look at the events of the |
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