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.

As you know, a big part of my morning routine is a walk. I've never gone for a walk and not thought, I'm so glad I did that. I always feel

that way. And lately, I've been walking in my Hoka Mach 6s, and so have my kids and my wife,

because we've all got matching pairs. It's a light, fast, and undeniably comfy shoe. It's got a

kid's specific design, and the fit will free 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.

This is all you have to do.

As we said, kids are expensive.

They ask a lot of us financially and emotionally.

They take a lot of time.

They challenge us.

Kids make us accept things.

They make us face things.

They also ask us to endure things. Their school plays and baseball games in the summer heat, terrible music and silly TV shows.

They ask us to support crazy dreams.

They do dangerous things that we have to sit back and survive, despite all the anxiety it

causes us.

We've been talking about Alfred Molina recently, whose father just could

not accept that his son wanted to be an actor. His father had a conventional job. He wanted his son

to be safe. He didn't think you could make a living in the arts, so he withheld his approval,

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