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.

They help you notice things. It was painting that helped churchill slow down and learn how to see

he had been so busy so ambitious that he had not cultivated the eye or the discipline to slow down and look at the

world around him the ground beneath his feet the loved ones right in front of him artistic hobbies

can do that for you. But so can

parenting. Nothing cultivates your eye quite like games of eye spy in the car. Helicopters have

been flying overhead your whole life, but it was only when your son or daughter became obsessed

with them that you started to really notice. Do you think that Sandra Day O'Connor went out

and gathered cicadas before she was a

parent and a grandparent? No. It was the act of sending them off to curious grandchildren that got her

to appreciate this gross, the fascinating bit of nature. The things are kids like, the things they notice

and become consumed by. If we want to be a part of that process of discovery, we have to

slow down in order to notice, to develop an eye, to participate, because we want to point things

out. We want them to see. And so we pay closer attention than ever before. We keep our eyes peeled

wider than ever before. We slow down in a way that if left to our own devices, we never would.

And for that, we must be grateful.

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