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.

It's for parents too. Aristotle wrote his famous ethics for his son, Nicomachus.

Seneca was given a philosophy teacher by his father.

Cato, too, was given the philosophical education.

His parents felt that the promising boy deserved.

Marcus Aurelius tried to give Commodus a group of philosophical advisors.

And we can imagine that one of the great

disappointments in his life was that his philosophy and his example did not seem to rub off on his

son. Philosophy was not just for monks and academics in the ancient world. It was for real people

in the real world, for parents, for sons and daughters, for people with day jobs, for people

with their own difficult parents.

And the great philosophers throughout history knew that the greatest thing one can give their kids is not a great fortune or a big plot of land, but a love of learning, an interest in philosophy

in the pursuit of wisdom. They need this, but so do you. After all, parenting demands each

of the four virtues from us, courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

It requires that we be philosophical in the more colloquial sense, too, understanding the big picture, being thoughtful always, always knowing what to do.

And anyway, if you're trying to be a more philosophical parent or you want to teach philosophy to your kids, you might enjoy the class we're starting the first week of November called Stoicism 101, ancient philosophy for your actual life. It's great

for parents. It's great for families to take together. Stoicism 101 is a 10-day course designed to

teach you how to apply stoicism in your actual life. And whether this is the first time you're

hearing about stoicism or you've been

studying it for years, there is no role, as Marcus Aurelius wrote it, as Marcus Aurelius wrote, so well

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