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.

Let this keep you going.

There are going to be moments when we're not sure we can keep going.

We hit a plateau in our career.

We hit a wall on mile 19 of our first marathon.

Our marriage is struggling.

Our attempt to lose weight has stalled out.

Going back to school has turned out to be a lot more than we expected.

It's natural to think about

quitting in these moments, to question whether success or even sustaining is possible. But before we

do that, we should turn to our secret weapon, our kids. In his beautiful retirement essay, the three-time

Super Bowl champion Dante Hightower, now the father of a young boy named Grayson,

he told the story of the Patriots' most impressive and historic comeback win,

and what he drew on to make it happen.

I'll never forget when we were in the locker room at halftime, he writes,

we were down 21 to 3.

So some guys are quiet and some guys are doing the rah-rah stuff.

I sat there for a moment and for some reason I thought, man, I don't even have a son yet.

But one day he's going to watch the tape of this game and he's going to know one thing for sure, he said.

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