It’s Not As Important As You Tell Yourself
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
So many of the things we sacrifice our time and presence for don’t end up mattering in the end—while the things we skip, the people we leave behind, are often what we most wish we could have back in the end.
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| 1:55.0 | It's not as important as you tell yourself. It was a critical summer. |
| 1:58.0 | There was pressure on him from above and below, plus his own ambition. He'd |
| 2:03.0 | figured he'd have more opportunities to take a break later, that there was always more trips, |
| 2:08.8 | more summer vacations. But as we've said recently, Alexander Hamilton's decision to forgo |
| 2:15.8 | a trip upstate with his wife and his kids was in the end |
| 2:19.9 | the beginning of his end. It was the same for Pierre Curay, as we said, who rushed home early |
| 2:27.2 | from a lovely week in the mountains with his wife and girls, not realizing that he was rushing home |
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