"I Wish I Had Been More Patient" | Ryan Holiday

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4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

You can rush them, or you can just go along for the ride. In today's solo episode, Ryan shares a recent experience of riding bikes with his son that turned into a crucial parenting lesson. After spending time together, are you gonna be glad that you applied pressure and stress, or will you wish that you were patient and supportive?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Dad podcast, where on the weekends, we do a deeper dive
0:08.4	and how to get better at our most important job, being a parent. Sometimes in these episodes,
0:13.9	I talk to best-selling authors and elite performers and other guests, but lately I've also
0:18.5	been having conversations with my wife, Samantha, the co-parent of my two
0:22.6	boys. We do it over in the Daily Stoic studio here in Bastrop, Texas. She and I talk about things
0:29.0	that we're working on as parents, things that we're working on as people, and how we are supporting
0:35.8	each other, challenging each other,
0:38.3	and like I said, trying to get better at what we do.
0:41.6	Guest or not, I hope you hear some ideas here that will help make you a better parent.
0:47.2	I was better for having the conversation.
0:49.0	I hope you enjoy.
0:55.2	Hey, it's Ryan.
1:00.0	Welcome to another solo episode of the Daily Dad Podcast.
1:01.9	We've been doing this cool thing.
1:03.3	I've known about it for many years.
1:07.1	We've lived out near the Circuit of America's track.
1:08.1	That's the F1 track.
1:10.3	It's the only one in the United States. They sort of temporarily do one in Miami and Las Vegas, but this is the big one here.
1:16.6	They do F1 here every year.
1:18.6	And so I've driven by 8,000 times.
1:20.6	And I went to a NASCAR race there, but I knew that every once in a while they let you ride
1:25.6	your bikes on the track.
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