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.

Everyone in our house was recovering from a cold last week, and then so this weekend was finally the first chance that we got to go on our family walk, which we hadn't been able to do. And so we laced up our Hoka Mach 6s. The folks at Hoka were nice enough to send us all matching pairs. So I have a pair. My wife has a pair. Clark has a pair. Jones has a pair. It's pretty cute as we walked down the dirt roads by where we lived,

walked through our property. It's a light, fast, and undeniably comfy shoe. It's got a kid's specific

design, and the fit will free your kids' inner speedster for a daily fun. To learn more about the

kids' mock six shoe, visit today's show notes and check it out.

There are limits. We say we do anything for our kids. Nothing is more important than providing for them,

keeping them safe than giving them a better life. So you'd think when Ulysses S. Grant got a lifeline as a dirt poor farmer

and suddenly came into a possession of a slave named William Jones, likely as a gift from his wife's family,

he'd use the opportunity to his advantage.

But owning another human being, wringing bread from the sweat of another man's brow, was an

injustice that Grant simply could not stand. On March 29, 1859, Grant made the costly choice

to give Jones a slave worth $1,000, his freedom.

There's a story I tell in Right Thing right now, which you can reorder right now.

Of course, this little decision hardly made a dent in a system that enslaved some four million men and women and children.

And yet Grant, who would do whatever he had to to provide for his family,

including at one point selling firewood by the side of the road and another one

pawning his gold watch, even at his lowest moment he was not willing to violate his principles.

He would not do something that violated his conscience, even if it meant another hard couple

years of excruciating manual labor. Did his kids understand this sacrifice?

Did his wife who came from a slave-owning family agree? Probably not. But he wouldn't bend.

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