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.

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quote at ethos.com slash daily stoic. That's eth-h-os.com slash stoic. We live in a world awash with ego. We see it every day. We see the ego of our boss and how it has turned the office against them. We can see ego in politicians and professional athletes. We can see it in our kids' teacher, perhaps when they get in some pissing match with another parent or are threatened by a precocious student. As they get older, we can even see ego on our own kids,

thinking they can ace a test without studying or advanced in sports without practicing.

The laundry list of out-of-control egos is easy to write, but it's interesting to think that

putting it together may in fact be our own ego distracting us from ourselves. Because by focusing on the problems

other people's egos are causing, we excuse ourselves from looking in the mirror at our own.

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