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

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This is all it takes.

She was a precocious girl.

She was always getting excited about one thing or another.

She was a lot to handle. We can imagine it was a conversation easy to roll one's eyes at when her

11-year-old came home and said, Mom, Mom, I found what I'm going to do with my life. I want to be

the number one tennis player in the world. Billy Jean King had not

been playing tennis long. Tennis champions were usually European, usually rich. Women were not really

even supposed to be athletes. These are all things her mother could have said to her kids some version

of the things that mothers and fathers have been saying to discourage their sons and daughters from pipe dreams for all time. Instead, as Billy Jean

recounted years later, my mother looked at me and said the absolutely best, most revolutionary

thing she could have said to a girl like me in 1954. Okay, dear. In other words,

okay, dear, let's do it. Let's give it a try. It's the same message Joan Didion's mother once gave

her daughter. Okay, dear, here's a notebook. And it's the same message Jim Volvano's father gave him

when his teenage son said that one day he'd win a college basketball

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