It's OK to Be Ambitious
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
"You have things you want to do in this life. Maybe you want to write a book or you’re in the middle of starting a company. Maybe you’re trying to win a championship or run for president.
You want to be a great dad too, but is it possible to do all these things at once?"
Ryan talks about the pressure to accomplish great things as well as be a great a parent, and how those two desires mesh, in today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.5 | It's okay to be ambitious. |
| 0:35.6 | You have things you want to do in this life. Maybe you want it to write a book or you're in the middle of starting a company. Maybe you're trying to win a championship or run for president. You want to be a great dad too, but is it possible to do all these things at once? We've talked before about how family comes first, which makes these goals quite difficult. |
| 0:55.0 | Is it a moral quandary? Is it even possible to yearn for personal achievement and still also |
| 1:00.2 | desire to be a good parent? Is it unfair to your family that you have another love, your career, |
| 1:05.8 | your public service, your ambition? For most of history, it's been women who have felt these |
| 1:10.8 | conflicting desires the most. |
| 1:12.9 | Fathers have been encouraged, expected even to look outside the home for fulfillment and recognition. |
| 1:18.7 | But still, even prime ministers and billionaires have felt the tension of serving two masters. |
| 1:24.6 | In her autobiography, Margaret Thatcher quotes Irene Ward, a pioneering British |
| 1:29.6 | female politician. While the home must always be the center of one's life, she said, |
| 1:35.0 | it should not be the boundary of one's ambition. Well said, even though the word should, |
| 1:41.1 | feels a tad judgmental. You're allowed to think bigger. It's okay to have a career. |
| 1:46.1 | It's okay to want to be great at that career. It's okay to strive to change the world. |
| 1:51.7 | Because in these things, as long as you share them and open them up to a wider view, |
| 1:57.3 | are teaching your kids. You are teaching them about hard work, about doing what's right, |
| 2:01.8 | about fulfilling one's potential, about being of use to others. Just make sure that the home |
| 2:07.0 | remains the center of your life. Make sure that you are stating with your actions to your children |
| 2:11.9 | what is actually most important to you and hint that should be them. |
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