I'm Thank you. Infuse this into your DNA.

Early in his career, the neuroscientist Andrew Huberman worked

mostly in isolation. In his lab, he kept a list of scientists he loved and admired. I would read

that list over and over again, he said. I didn't realize it at the time, but this is what is

called introjection.

Introjection is the process of absorbing the qualities and ideas of others into the self.

If you regularly listen to So-and-So's podcast, Humerman explains, the nervous system begins to ask

questions like, what would so-and-so do? And that's a very real thing.

This concept of introjection actually helps explain the greatness of people like Marcus Aurelius,

Seneca, Harry Truman, and Anhelemerko, all great students of history and people we have talked

about many times here at Daily Dad. You must linger among a limited number of master

thinkers and digest their works, Seneca wrote, if you would derive ideas which shall win

firm hold in your mind. When you read a book over and over again, the ideas take firm hold.

They are absorbed. They become muscle memory

infused into your DNA. Marcus Aurelius would talk later about how a philosopher is one with their

weapon, like a boxer, more than a swordsman. A boxer just clenches their fist. A fencer has to pick

something up. And that's what we need to do as parents. Create a

practice. Get the reps that fuses us with the ideas and the qualities of the grates. That inserts

those ideas and qualities into our DNA so that we, too, can be great. Parenting isn't this

thing you learn about one time. It's a process you give yourself over to

and that's actually the idea behind something i'm very excited to tell you about which is my newest

book the daily dad 366 meditations on parenting love and raising great For years now, we've been sending out this email

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