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. Like all things, it's a process. Sure, you become a parent when you have a kid. It's a biological thing.

It's a legal status. It's codified on a piece of paper. But we all know that being a good parent

is something much more than that. There's no one moment, one benchmark, one thing that makes you a

parent, just as there's no single moment that one becomes a

writer or an entrepreneur or a wise elder. Even turning pro as the great Stephen Pressfield has

written is not something that happens with the signing of a contract or being drafted by a team.

No, parenting like all these other forms of greatness or achievement is a process.

It's something you work at, it's something you work on.

Not something you've done, but something you are doing.

Not once when your kids are young, but every day, all days, for all of your days.

You don't just read what to expect when you're expecting and then you got it,

nor is parenting

just something that one picks up by experience and trial and error. Or if you do, that's a painful

thing to do at your kid's expense. Parenting is a process that millions and billions of people

have been through before you, some doing it well, some ignoring it and not doing well. To be great at this process,

or at least just not to screw it up, you have to study. You have to ask questions. You have to

commit yourself to it daily, focusing on incremental improvement on accountability, on a growth mindset.

If you don't give your best to this, what could possibly deserve your best?

This is really cool, though. I am holding in my hands the very first of the copies of the Daily

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