Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing

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Daily Dad

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

4.6 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Ryan talks about how what matters over everything else, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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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.
0:14.0	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.
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1:37.2	Keep the main thing, the main thing. It's easy to get distracted, not just with our jobs, with the busyness of life, with the
1:46.1	myriad opportunities and responsibilities, but also with what we're trying to do as parents.
1:52.5	We can get distracted by the shiny external goals. We can get caught up in competition with other
1:57.8	parents. We can get our kids signed up for so much stuff that it consumes
2:01.7	them and us. We would do well to remember always that the main thing is to keep the main thing,
2:08.6	the main thing. It's a wonderful expression. The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.
2:15.3	Every family, every person has a different main thing, of course. But if we could generalize, the main thing. Every family, every person has a different main thing, of course. But if we
2:19.6	could generalize, the main thing for us parents is to raise well-adjusted, self-reliant, decent, happy kids.
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