Slow Down or You’ll Miss This Gift
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:35.1 | Why are you rushing? We are always in a rush. We have to get them ready for school. We have to get them off to bed. We have to get to the airport. We have to get back inside. We have to finish up dinner. We as parents, it seems, are perpetually short of time and always eager to get to the next thing. But it's worth stopping and thinking this morning, what are we actually |
| 0:54.9 | rushing to and what are we rushing away from? You're wrapping up bedtime quickly. Why? So you can |
| 1:00.3 | sit and watch Netflix after they're asleep. You cannot stand for them to be laid to school. Why? |
| 1:06.0 | Fear of other parents judging you. You want to be to the airport how early and for what reason? Because it |
| 1:12.2 | recommends doing so on your ticket? As dads, when we rush, we should know that we are hurrying |
| 1:17.5 | through life. We are zipping through their childhood, the exact thing we will stop and miss |
| 1:22.6 | at some point not long from now. How much would we give for a few minutes back right here the right now we |
| 1:29.1 | seem to want to be over as quickly as possible? |
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