Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

This is the enemy of good parenting.

There are so many sad examples, the father who can't bear to be

contradicted, the parents who refuse to admit when they are wrong, the mom who spends all her

energy trying to impress other people, the father who is jealous of his own son or threatened by the

attention his daughter gets. All these parental failings and make no mistake

they are failings share a root cause. Ego, a sensitive, fragile ego, in the way that ego is the

enemy of collaboration, of self-improvement, of kindness, and ultimately of most forms of success,

whether you're a president, athlete, millionaire, musician, or whatever,

it is also the enemy of the most important job you hold being a great parent.

Ego is not a strength, it's weakness.

It makes you do things you regret.

It projects your issues onto other people.

It makes everyone suffer, including you, but mostly it is the young

and the vulnerable who get caught up in the blast radius of your ego explosion. They don't know

why you're acting like this. They can't understand the logic. They are being taught by example,

all the things you don't want them to learn. If you're serious about being a good father,

you must constantly sweep away your ego. You must constantly question that voice in your head, the one that drives you

to always be right, to always be in charge, to bask in your own certainty. Ego is the enemy. A good

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