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The Daily Dad

This Is How To Explain Things

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

Relationships, Education, Dads, Parenting, Ryan Holiday, Fatherhood, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Wisdom, Kids & Family

4.6630 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We don’t like it when people tell us the point, we like it when they show us.

📚 Looking for stories to teach your kids about Stoicism? Check out Ryan Holiday’s books: The Boy Who Would Be King and  The Girl Who Would Be Free: A Fable About Epictetus


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0:00.0

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.

0:14.8

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

0:23.5

parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

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This is how to explain things.

1:39.9

Look, the world is complicated.

1:44.4

There's so much for them to understand, so much for you to explain, so much to teach them.

1:49.6

What's the best way? How do you get the ideas, the facts, the lessons, and the values to stick in their brains? The best way, as we've said, is story, and it's always been this way.

1:55.9

Aesop, Hans Christian Anderson, the Bible. Did you know that Da Vinci wrote a number of fables, too? You don't lecture,

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