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The Daily Dad

Let's Give Them This Unusual Advantage

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

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

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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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.

0:14.9

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.

0:34.1

I am very excited because what just arrived on my desk here, I'll even let you listen to me open it,

0:40.3

is my first book that I made with Art Kive. We just have so much fricking art for my kids, school,

0:50.3

tutoring, the placemats you get at restaurants. We didn't want to lose it all. We also

0:56.0

didn't want to keep it all. And so we mailed a bunch of it to the folks at Archive. They took

1:00.4

amazing pictures of it, so I have a digital backup. And then they turned it into this beautiful book.

1:05.2

And the pictures are like super good. My kids are going to be pumped. The cover has my son's

1:10.1

handwriting on. It says,

1:11.0

Volcanoes erupted. It rained for thousands of years. Very ominous, but actually quite

1:16.7

beautiful, and I absolutely love it. The process is simple. They send you a box. It's got a prepaid

1:21.7

envelope in it. And then they photograph it all professionally and turn it into a keepsake book.

1:26.6

And you can get started today for

1:28.0

14 bucks. It's $25 off an archive book. And then you make a second payment based on how much art

1:34.3

you send. I send quite a bit of art. You just go to archive.com and use code Daily Dad for $25

1:40.1

off your box today.

1:54.2

Over three decades after their famous flight, a journalist asked Oroville and Wilbur how they did it.

2:00.2

How did two brothers with no money, no influence, and no other special advantages do what specialists with all those things couldn't do.

2:02.6

It isn't true, Oroville corrected, to say that we had no special advantages.

2:07.7

We did have unusual advantages in childhood, without which I doubt we could have accomplished much.

2:14.2

And what was that? What was their unusual advantage? Their father, as we talked about a while

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