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The Daily Dad

Teach Them About Their Ultimate Power

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

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

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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📕 The Girl Who Would Be Free is an all-ages fable written by the bestselling author Ryan Holiday and illustrated by the prolific illustrator Victor Juhasz. The 148-page book, produced entirely by Daily Stoic and printed here in the United States, is OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE online at dailystoic.com/girl or at The Painted Porch Bookshop in Bastrop, Texas.

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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.

0:35.0

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them, the first thing, not only did I eat one and my

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kids eat one, but then we had to save some for my father-in-law who also loves Magic Spoon, you know, when you were a kid, you loved eating sugary cereal, and you knew it probably wasn't good for you when it was called something like Cookie Crisp, or it had a picture of your favorite candy bar on it. I wouldn't give my kids that stuff today, but I do give them magic spoon,

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slash Daily Dad to use the promo code Daily Dad to save five bucks off and try these cereal bars, man. They're really good.

1:48.1

Thank you to MagicSpoon for sending them to me and for sponsoring this episode.

1:55.7

Teach them about their ultimate power. It's one of the most unbelievable stories in all of history. A kid is

2:05.0

born into slavery and becomes one of the most influential philosophers, not just in their own

2:10.6

lifetime, but of all time. Epictetus's name in Greek literally means acquired one. And Rome was not a nice place to be acquired.

2:20.2

No slave could be free before their 30th birthday. But from those 30 years as the property of a

2:27.1

violent and depraved master, in a Roman empire known for treating its slaves cruelly, Epictetus would

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