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.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

parents just like you all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

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

open it, is my first book that I made with ArtCive.

We just have so much freaking art from my kids, school, tutoring, the placemats you get at restaurants.

We didn't want to lose it all. We also didn't want to keep it all.

And so we mailed a bunch of it to the folks at Archive. They took amazing pictures of it,

so I have a digital backup. And then they turned it into this beautiful book. And the pictures are like

super good. My kids are going to be pumped. The cover has my son's handwriting on. It says

volcanoes erupted. It rained for thousands of years.

Very ominous, but actually quite beautiful, and I absolutely love it. The process is simple.

They send you a box. It's got a prepaid envelope in it, and then they photograph it all professionally

and turn it into a keepsake book. And you can get started today for 14 bucks. It's $25 off an archive book and then you make a second

payment based on how much art you send. I send quite a bit of art. You just go to archive.com and use

code Daily Dad for $25 off your box today. It's one of the most unbelievable stories in all of history.

A kid is born into slavery and becomes one of the most influential philosophers, not just in their own lifetime, but of all time.

Epictetus's name in Greek literally means acquired one,

and Rome was not a nice place to be acquired. No slave could be free before their 30th birthday.

But from those 30 years as the property of a violent and depraved master, in a Roman Empire known

for treating its slaves cruelly,

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