How Will You Use This Time?
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
"Right now, most of us are stuck with what you might call dead time. We’re trapped indoors. We’re working from home… or not at all. Kids are out of school, and who knows when it will be back in. We’re in the snow day of all snow days, except we can’t go outside and take advantage of the time off because the snow might make us all sick."
What ways can you convert this experience, from "dead time" that leaves you no better off than you were before, to "alive time" that enriches your life and helps the best version of you leave quarantine for the final time, however many months in the future that may be?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.1 | How will you use this time? |
| 0:36.1 | Right now, most of us are stuck with what you might call dead time. |
| 0:40.3 | We're trapped indoors. We are working from home. We're not working at all. Kids are not in school, |
| 0:47.3 | and who knows when it will resume. It's a snow day of all snow days, which is to say it's both a pretty familiar situation. |
| 0:56.9 | School and life get interrupted all the time. And at the same time, also totally uncharted territory. |
| 1:04.1 | Has the world ever been shut down like this? Well, you can't help any of that. This wasn't your fault. |
| 1:09.9 | It's a lot to manage and there's a lot to be worried and stressed about. |
| 1:13.8 | Still, we should remember what the Stoics say and what we've said to our own kids many times. |
| 1:19.4 | We don't control the things that happen, but we control how we respond. |
| 1:24.0 | So the project for you to focus on today is how you can turn this dead time into what Robert |
| 1:28.9 | Green calls a live time. None of this was to your choosing, but you do choose what you do with it, |
| 1:36.1 | and there's so much to choose from. You can choose to write letters with them to their grandparents |
| 1:41.6 | or to an old folks home or to first responders. You can choose |
| 1:46.3 | to create a competition to see who can read the most books over the next month. You can choose to get them |
| 1:51.7 | to watch college lectures from Yale or instructional YouTube videos. You can choose to work on stuff |
| 1:58.2 | around the house. You can choose to connect with each other and grow as a |
| 2:01.5 | family. You can choose to find ways to help the less fortunate people in your community. |
| 2:06.9 | However long this goes on, wherever this ends up, that is unknown. What is certain in this |
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