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.

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Another horrible news report about a family that lost everything in a fire.

An alert on your phone about a kidnapping, the grotesque political dysfunction, the existential

global threats, climate wars, terrorism, another act of violence for which the only thing offered

is thoughts and prayers. It's demoralizing, it's frustrating. We are so vulnerable as parents hostages to fortune because of these

little kids that we love. It's like that verse in Hamilton. There are moments that the words don't reach.

There is suffering too terrible to name. You hold your child as tight as you can and push away the unimaginable. In some ways,

this really is all that we can do. There's a beautiful passage in Mary Philpott's book,

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