It’s Painful But It’s Made You Invincible
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about why parenting changes your relationship with time.
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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. |
| 0:14.7 | 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. |
| 0:34.9 | If you want to improve your relationship with your kids, one of the best ways you can do that |
| 0:39.7 | is by improving your most important relationship, which is your relationship with yourself, |
| 0:44.6 | whether it's body issues, whether it's eating issues, whether it's childhood traumas from |
| 0:50.7 | early in life, whether it's a work addiction, a drug addiction, whether it's how you see |
| 0:57.2 | yourself and that affects how you act in your marriage, right? Dealing with your own issues will make |
| 1:02.9 | you a better parent. And I think the best way to do that is with therapy. Better Help Online |
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| 1:46.1 | It's painful, but it's made you invincible. |
| 1:50.6 | Parenting like exercise is a process of growth through pain, through the struggle against |
| 1:56.1 | resistance. |
| 1:57.3 | It would be wonderful if raising kids was easy if it demanded little of you. |
| 2:01.3 | That's just not how it works. |
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