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.

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This is W keeps us going.

Ulysses as Grant had been through some hard times before.

He'd been busted out of the army.

He'd struggled with alcoholism.

He'd been broke and humiliated,

pawning his watch, as we talked about recently, to pay for Christmas presents.

He had seen war and death and division, and he got through all of it. How? What propelled him from

these depths kept him going through this hardship? It was his love for his family. No one indeed

can understand the character of General Grant, one of his

closest aides explained, who does not know the strength of his regard for his children. It was like

the passion of a wild beast for its cubs, he said, or the love of a mother for a sucking child,

instinctive, un reasoning, overweening. Yet what everyone can appreciate,

natural, and in this grim veteran touching in the extreme, he not only thought his son's wise,

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