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.

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Teach them about this choice.

Michael Lewis tells the story of a coach named Jack Kenny who changed his life.

One morning at an overnight tennis camp, all the campers stormed the dining hall to get their favorite box of cereal. The options ranged from the fruit loops that

every kid likes to the dark brand stuff that no kids like. So after pushing and elbowing,

there were winners and losers happy and unhappy campers, and then there was a lecture from Kenny.

You don't realize it, he said, but you have a choice. You can be a giver or you can be a taker, and you make that choice

every day. You make that choice at breakfast when you rush to grab the cereal you want so others

can't have what they want. From then on, Lewis and his friends began to categorize the world not

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