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.

Theodore Roosevelt loves sports. He loved the outdoors. He loved martial arts. He loved boxing.

He loved football and rowing and wrestling. And he also loved books. And so it's fitting that one of his best pieces of advice was

inscribed in a book he was signing for someone. And it uses a sports metaphor. Don't flinch,

he wrote, don't foul. Hit the line hard. What wonderful advice for both sports and life. And if you think about it,

it's got three of the four stoic virtues right there. Don't flinch. That's courage. Don't cheat.

That's justice. Get after it with all you've got. That's discipline. As you know, Theta Roosevelt

grew up a sickly young boy. It was his father who got him active, got him lifting weights, helped him make his body and got him into sports. He didn't push Teddy to be someone else. He supported him in becoming himself, a stronger, braver, more confident version of the boy he already was. And in doing so, his father didn't just give him strength. He gave him a philosophy for life. And that's

what I've been trying to talk about in this For Virtue series. We've got courage, is calling,

discipline is destiny, right thing right now. And I'm just finishing now the wisdom book. You can grab

those three books signed at store.dailystowoccomcom or pick up the Audible, anywhere you get your books.

I've been loving the older parents who let me know they read it with their teenage kids or their

college age kids or their kids turn them on to the books. That's my absolute favorite thing.

And Theodore Roosevelt, and much of his story is woven through discipline is destiny,

and as it happens through right thing right now.

So check those out, and don't flinch, don't foul, hit the line hard.

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