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 the cure. It doesn't matter who you are now. It doesn't matter who you were then.

It doesn't matter if you're a billionaire, if you command armies or enormous audiences. It doesn't

matter that you can persuade or sell or convince juries and judges. Doesn't matter how driven you were.

Doesn't matter how much money is on the table. Having kids humbles you. We said recently that having kids changes

you because it brings you up close and personal with something that actually means something

and all your other worldly stuff pales somewhat in comparison. As the writer Stephen Marsh

describes, he has this great little book about writing in life, he says, the physical changes that occasionally transpire with women after birth, acne disappearing,

once intractable allergies going away, he says, have a psychological equivalent.

The flesh of little children is the cure for self-importance. Everything matters less.

He says having children does not necessarily make writing harder, but it makes it a lot harder to pretend that writing matters. It makes it harder

for that business trip to matter. Not when your son is struggling in school. It makes it harder

for that big exit for your startup to matter. Now that pursuing it has made your spouse contemplate an exit from your marriage, and now you're staring down the heartbreak of shared custody.

You thought it was all so important. You thought you were so important. But it's harder to pretend now. The flesh of your flesh and blood are the cure for that. They are an ego antidote.

They are the truth.

Delivering the same snappy ride as their adults' mock six shoe,

Hoka is happy to announce their kid's version of the mock six.

It's a light, fast, comfy shoe.

It's got a kid-specific design, and the fit will free your kid's inner speedster for daily fun.

I just picked my son up from his school.

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