This Is What We Have to Try to Get Better At
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Being a good parent and good partner isn’t simply a consequence of the work you put in to be a better person. They are correlated, certainly, but correlation isn’t causation, as they say.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.3 | From holiday parties to festive toast by the fire, people drink during the holidays, right? |
| 0:36.5 | They share time with friends and |
| 0:38.0 | family. And whether you're celebrating a year's end win or just relaxing after a busy day, |
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| 1:36.0 | slash daily dad and use code daily dad at checkout for 15% off. This is what we have to try to get better at. |
| 1:50.0 | We spend so much time at the office, trying to get better at our jobs, trying to make a little more money trying to climb further up the ladder. |
| 1:57.0 | We spend hours in the gym over the course of a life trying to get in better shape, |
| 2:01.3 | trying to hit personal records. We spend mountains of time online, trying to help our fantasy football |
| 2:06.4 | teams, trying to find discount codes to save money shopping, trying to stay abreast of our friends |
| 2:11.8 | and family's lives. So we tell ourselves. It's all good stuff for the most part, but it calls to mind a certain question |
| 2:19.6 | about our priorities, doesn't it? A better wrestler, Marcus Aurelius wrote in meditations, but not a better |
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