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.

Teach them to go and find it.

A young Kuwame on Wachi was cooking with his mother in their apartment in the Bronx.

When suddenly the apartment was overwhelmed by a strange smell, as he would write in his memoir,

the thick, fragrant smell of curry came up so strong that both of us stopped what we were doing

and looked up. But it wasn't actually the smell that he remembered was what his mother did next.

Let's go find it, she said to him with palpable excitement. And then together they raced down the

hallways of each floor of their building, trying to locate the source.

As soon as the doors opened to the third floor, they knew they were close, without so much as the hesitation's mother knocked on the door that had so beckoned her.

My name is Jewel, she said confidently.

This is my son.

We live on the sixth floor.

We couldn't help but smell what you were cooking.

The woman was stunned. Fear registered

across her face. Were they about to complain to say something offensive? No, that wasn't her

style. It smells wonderful, his mother said. I don't know how to say this, but we'd like to try it.

So how did her son go on to start his own catering company, graduate from the Culinary Institute work at Perse, start one of the most talked about restaurants in America before his 24th birthday, can all be traced back to this surreal exchange?

His mother, who was by no means a perfect person, showed him in that moment so many wonderful traits.

Curiosity, confidence, assertiveness, figure outableness,

as we've talked about before, passion, neighborliness. These are all things that we must teach

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