Only A Parent Understands

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

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

"The Spartan Agesilaus was the toughest of the tough. Like all Spartans, he had been trained in the agoge to be courageous and self-disciplined and beyond fear and pain. He was capable of incredible feats in battle and was in peak physical condition. As a Spartan king, he was all these things and more.

But he was also a father, and as you know, that changes you."

Ryan describes the changes that come from being a father on 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	Only a parent understands.
0:35.6	There was a particularly tough Spartan king. Like all Spartans, he had been
0:41.4	trained in the Agoge to be courageous and self-disciplined and beyond fear and pain. He was capable of
0:48.4	incredible feats in battle and was in peak physical condition. And as a Spartan king, he was all these things and more,
0:55.7	but he was also a father.
0:57.9	And as you know, that changes you.
1:00.4	One day, a warrior who had just left a meeting with the king
1:03.4	returned to the king's home because he'd forgotten something.
1:07.5	There he found the great man riding on a stick horse
1:10.6	to entertain his young children.
1:12.7	The man was stunned. The king just laughed. Don't tell anyone about this, he said, because you don't
1:18.3	understand. You can't. When you shall be a father yourself, he said, then you may give counsel to fathers.
1:25.7	Isn't that how it goes? All the things you saw your friends do
1:29.1	before you had kids seemed baffling. But now it all makes perfect sense. Even your own parents.
1:35.0	You couldn't quite understand why they were so tired, worried, ridiculous. Now you know it was
1:40.3	because of you. Becoming a parent changes you, mostly for the better. It's something
1:45.7	incommunicable. It's something transformative. It opens you to possibilities you never thought
1:52.0	possible. It makes you do things you've never done before. And so what if people don't get it,
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