This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp.

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 what we have to try to get better at. 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. We spend

hours in the gym over the course of a life trying to get in better shape, trying to hit personal

records. We spend mountains of time online, trying to help our fantasy football teams, trying to find

discount codes to save money shopping, trying to stay our fantasy football teams, trying to find discount codes

to save money shopping, trying to stay abreast of our friends 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

about our priorities, doesn't it? A better wrestler, Marcus Aurelius wrote in meditations,

but not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, better forgiver of

faults. We spend a lot of time on superficial stuff, we even call it work, but rarely do we

expend the same amount of effort on the stuff that really matters. In fact, even Marcus Aurelius'

quote, demonstrates this. Notice that he doesn't say anything about being a better parent, the same amount of effort on the stuff that really matters. In fact, even Mark Surrealus' quote

demonstrates this. Notice that he doesn't say anything about being a better parent. This is a guy who

had a dozen kids, and one of them, comidus, clearly could have used a better debt. Marcus doesn't

say anything about being a better spouse either, and some of the rumors about his marriage point to him

needing to do some work

there too. Now, one could certainly argue that all this domestic stuff is cluded under the banner

of being a better person, but why should it be? Why not make it a specific priority? Why not actually

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