Isn’t This What We Want Ourselves?
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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They doubt themselves. They wonder where they fit in, whether they matter. It’s our job to help them with this.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.4 | One of my favorite stories about Marksurelius is him going off to learn from a philosopher. |
| 0:36.6 | Someone asks him why he's taking up his |
| 0:38.2 | tablets and still going to school. And he says, because I want to learn that which I do not yet know. |
| 0:43.8 | And so where are you doing that in your life? To me, that's the question. Who are you learning from? How are you |
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| 1:44.0 | Eleanor Roosevelt had a rough childhood. |
| 1:46.2 | She was born to a rich family, but her father struggled with addiction and died young. |
| 1:51.0 | Her mother was always difficult and judgmental, but she was still her mother and Eleanor |
| 1:56.2 | was devastated when she died at age 29, and then devastated again just months later when her father died. |
| 2:02.9 | She was sent to live with her grandmother, a woman who it became very quickly, was also the source |
| 2:08.3 | of Eleanor's mother's emotional issues and judgmentalness. It was a dreary, painful existence |
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