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 why they study.

The point is not to get good grades.

The point is not a good score on their

SATs. It's not about what college they get into. College is not what kind of job they can snag.

Success in school is not succeeding in school. You will ever remember, John Adams wrote to his

brilliant and academic superstar of a son, John Quincy,

that the end of all study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

This will ever be the sum total of the advice of your affectionate father, he wrote.

But do you remember that? Have you gotten that through your thick skull?

Or are you still comparing your kids to other kids? Have you gotten that through your thick skull? Or are you still comparing

your kids to other kids? Are you still measuring them based on standardized tests? Are they rising

and falling in your estimation based on the opinion of an underfunded, overworked school system?

You are trying to raise a good person. You are trying to raise someone who contributes to their community, to the world, to your family

in a positive way.

And there are many ways to do this.

Most of them are not mutually exclusive with academic success, GPA or test scores or admissions,

but it is largely uncorrelated.

Ever remember that. It is the sum total of parenting

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