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Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, 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.

These two traits are enough.

There's all these things we want to make sure our kids learn. We agonize over which school they go to,

what their grades are. We try to interest them in the right career, try to fire up their ambition.

You push them to play sports. You teach them an instrument. You send them to summer camps. You read a thousand parenting books. You try all the strategies. Why? To set them up for

life, you say to make them successful, to help them reach their potential. But maybe the keys to

success in life are a little simpler. President John Adams raised a brilliant son who followed in his father's

footsteps, first serving as a diplomat and then as president. What was the secret? A taste for

literature and a turn for business, he wrote. United in the same person never fails to make a great man.

As we say in the Daily Dad, your job is to raise a reader. Give them projects, teach

them how the world works, lemonade stands, etc. And you've set them up for success. A love for

reading gives them the tools they need to learn anything they need to learn. A term for business

allows them to support themselves, to monetize their skills, whatever those happen to be.

The rest, or the rest is details.

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