Make Life More Promising When You’re Around
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
"F. Scott Fitzgerald lived a glamorous life and then he cracked up. All his talent. All his money. All the beauty and the passion evaporated. His wife, Zelda, wasn’t blameless in this collapse—both of them had partied hard, had prioritized things far less important than their beloved daughter Scottie. He was a man with demons, and those demons eventually won a terrible victory.
"And yet, even with his flaws, Fitzgerald was a good father." Ryan describes how and why, and what you can do to emulate Fitzgerald's example, in today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:23.6 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.6 | Make life more promising when you're around. |
| 0:36.6 | F. Scott Fitzgerald lived a glamorous life, |
| 0:39.8 | and then he cracked up. All his talent, all his money, all the beauty and the passion evaporated. |
| 0:46.6 | His wife, Zelda, wasn't blameless in this collapse. Both of them had partied hard, had prioritized |
| 0:53.1 | things far less important than their beloved daughter |
| 0:56.8 | Scotty. He was a man with demons, and those demons eventually won a terrible victory. And yet, |
| 1:03.7 | even with his flaws, Fitzgerald was a good father. He cared about his family deeply. He cared |
| 1:09.9 | about being a father deeply, as we've talked about |
| 1:12.5 | before. His death at age 44, it was a tragic loss to the world and to those who depended on him. |
| 1:19.2 | It was Zelda writing to Scott's agent after his death that described just what kind of father |
| 1:25.6 | Scott was and set a bar for the rest of us to follow |
| 1:29.0 | as we struggle to be good fathers ourselves. In retrospect, Zelda said, it seems as if he was |
| 1:35.7 | always planning happiness for Scotty and for me, books to read, places to go. Life seemed so |
| 1:42.8 | promising when he was around. That's what we should be working for. |
| 1:47.2 | We want to make things more promising when we're around. We should be fun. We should believe, |
| 1:52.3 | as Fitzgerald did, in that orgiastic green light of the future. We should be optimists. |
| 1:57.8 | We should show our children the world. We should find books for them to read. |
| 2:01.7 | We should plan happiness. |
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