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I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

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Stop checking your watch. You just got in the pool and already you're thinking about how you can make your escape. You just started bedtime and you're already trying to move things along.

You just pick them up for their weekend visit and you're on your phone, making plans for drop-off.

Come on! You say your kids are important, you say you do it all for them, you say you'll have

nothing more than spending time with them. So what are you doing? Why are you rushing through the

time you do get? Why and where are you trying to hurry them to anyway? It's crazy. It's like we prefer for them to be unconscious. We know that they won't be this age very long and yet here we are rushing them through it. It's like we're wishing for less time with our kids, wishing for them not to be our problem, wishing for their childhood to be over.

That's what we're doing.

And yet when they're gone, we'll regret not cherishing these moments.

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