Having a kid is obviously a biological or a legal change. You biologically create the kid or you adopt the kid. There is having a kid and then there's being a parent. And to me, the difference there is the identification. I'm not saying that when you become a parent, the kid becomes the central part of your life, but it does become central to your life.

And there are a lot of people, unfortunately, who have kids who are not parents.

Hey, everybody, guess who we've got back on the show?

You can tell by his cold intro there, his voice.

It's Mr. Ryan Holiday.

Now, I'm guessing that you know who Ryan is.

Long time for it.

I think he now has

the first place as the person who's had the most guest appearances here on the show.

Ryan Holiday is the best-selling author of Trust Me and I'm Lying. The Obstacle is the Way.

Ego is the Enemy, Conspiracy, and lots of other books about marketing,

culture, and specifically the human condition. You may know him expressly through his views

at his popularization of stoic philosophy across our culture today. Dear friend of ours here on the show, and to know him personally is to say that he actually

lives a life that looks so much like what he shares here, not just in today's episode,

but in his previous ones as well. Today's special

because we're talking about something that's, well, it largely looks through a lens of still

a philosophy, but it's specifically talking about parenting. This is a new book Ryan has out

called The Daily Dad. He also has a website and a podcast that share the same name. But before you say, wait a minute,

I'm not a dad or I don't plan to be a dad, which does describe me. As you know, I'm the father only to

a puppy golden retriever, which I'm just to be clear, I know that is not actually a father and

it is much different than being an actual father.

Regardless of where you sit on the parenting spectrum, today's episode is very insightful.

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