Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast.

We'll talk today about something I think that's important.

I'm bringing you an excerpt from a conversation I had with the one and only Adam Grant.

He has a new book called Hidden Potential, The Science of Achieving Greater Things.

But I think we all have obviously hidden potential, not just professionally but personally.

And in today's episode, we talk about some parenting stuff, about self-compassion, about how to be a

better parent, not a perfect parent, how to create momentum, how to learn from our mistakes and from our

own parents. Adam's a great guy. I've known him for a long time. Follow him on social at Adam Grant and at Adam

M Grant. Go to his website, Adamgrant.net. Check out the new book Hidden Potential, the science of

achieving greater things. I think you'll like. I think there'll be a bunch of parenting lessons

in this little excerpt for you now. If your view of the world is that things succeed because they are perfect or because they were

the absolute right thing at the right time and the right moment, that's a much more intimidating bar

than the bar of, hey, actually, no, it's things being pretty good. It's things being different.

It's things being unique. And then that person really hustling, really committing, really,

you know, developing the connections, really building the community. If you see it as part of a larger

package, suddenly I think it feels much more attainable to you, but it's also much more

actionable to you. Like, you can get started on that and start the process now. Like, if your

view of atomic habits is that James Clear is the single greatest writer of all time, and that is

the best written book of the last decade.

You know, you're going to spend a lot of time despairing at the keyboard.

Then if you're like, no, James discovered an intersection of a bunch of stuff,

spent a long time building a really cool platform, came up with a great title.

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