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 most impressive form of greatness.

It would be wonderful if these quotes didn't exist, but they do. They come from

the children of great men, from Albert Einstein's son, from Nelson Mandela's daughter, from kids

whose dads were presidents or kings or rock stars or CEOs. They go something like this. You were the

best in the world at everything you did, except for fatherhood. It's heartbreaking.

Obviously, the world needed Nelson Mandela. It needed Winston Churchill. It needed Einstein.

What they did was hard. It required sacrifice. It came at the expense of their family.

It had to, but did it have to come at such a high cost?

Churchill had plenty of time to paint and gamble, but not to be a more present father.

John F. Kennedy didn't choose to be assassinated. That time was stolen from him and his family,

but he did choose to sneak off and have those affairs. He stole that from them. There was no

excuse, especially when you consider the counter examples. We've talked before about how

De Gaulle at the height of his power was often unreachable even by his closest aids because he

knew that the presidency was temporary and family was permanent. We've talked about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, despite all the demands on her time,

blocking out non-negotiable time for her daughter.

We talked about the line from Theodore Roosevelt about how there are many kinds of success in life,

and they lose their impressiveness when compared to doing a good job raising a household of children.

He also gave this advice to his son, Teddy Jr., when Teddy was expecting his own first child.

Home, wife, children. They are what really count in life.

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