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.

This is one of the only times. We are busy. We are still trying to make it in our careers.

We're trying to measure up to some impossible standard from our parents. We are still trying to make it in our careers. We're trying to measure up to some

impossible standard from our parents. We know we're capable of more. We see people around us doing better.

It's hard being a person. It's insecure. It's lonely. But then our kids run to see us at the pickup

line in school where they fall asleep on us in a chair at the airport. are they called to say hi from college? The only time I've ever felt sated and thought this was

enough, Scott Galloway recently said, are the moments with my boys. And by the way, you should listen

to his episode on the Daily Stoke podcast. It's great. Let's be honest. He said kids can be awful.

It's a lot of stress.

But he said the other night he was watching the Liverpool Man City game with his kids.

They were 17 and 14. They threw their legs over his. The dogs came in and he said, okay, this is enough. I can't imagine anything more than this. These are the moments we have to

hold on to. The ones we have to carry with us for all

the times when it feels like we're falling short, when life feels overwhelming, when we are

caught in the endless grind of trying to do and be more, because these fleeting, imperfect,

beautiful moments remind us of what we already have.

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