It’s Never Too Late to Be a Good Father

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Society & Culture, Dads, Relationships, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Ryan Holiday, Wisdom, Education, Fatherhood

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Ted Williams was not a good father—at least not for most of his life. He was a great baseball player, but for a long time, he was a really selfish and ruthless person. He came from a horrible, abusive childhood himself and struggled to find the ability to love and care about anyone, including himself. It was like his own childhood prepared him to be a kind of lone wolf, a machine designed to do one thing really well (and caring about other people was not that thing).

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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.
0:12.4	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.
0:24.1	Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.
0:31.7	If you want to improve your relationship with your kids, one of the best ways you can do that is by improving your most important relationship, which is your relationship with yourself, whether it's body issues, whether it's eating issues, whether it's childhood traumas from early in life, whether it's a work addiction, a drug addiction, whether it's how you see yourself and that
0:56.6	affects how you act in your marriage, dealing with your own issues will make you a better parent.
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1:53.4	You are capable of change.
1:58.4	Ted Williams was not a good father, at least not for most of his life.
2:02.3	He was a great baseball player, but for a long time, he was a really selfish and ruthless person. He came from a horrible, abusive childhood himself and struggled
2:08.6	to find the ability to love and care about anyone, including himself. It was like his own
2:14.3	childhood prepared him to be a kind of lone wolf, a machine designed to do one thing really well, but caring about other people was not that thing.
2:24.5	If you haven't read Wright Thompson's insanely beautiful profile of Williams's daughter, Claudia Williams, you should.
2:32.2	It starts off dark and depressing, but by the end it has enough
2:35.9	hope in it to inspire even the most hard-boiled and reluctant fathers, because over time,
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