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 your advantage now. Your career used to be the only thing you had.

It was just you.

You had your ambitions.

You had as many hours as there were in the day.

And you were willing to work incredibly hard, do anything to get ahead.

And now you have a family and now there is attention.

Time you spend on airplanes or at meetings is time you're not spending with your kids.

Time you know you'll never get back. So naturally your career suffers a bit.

Certainly the studies show that women's careers suffer the most this way.

Missed opportunities, months or years away from the career ladder as they give birth or take maternity leave.

And this is unfair and painful. And yet we also have to understand that we have an

advantage now that we didn't have before. It's not just that we have these wonderful humans who

bring us joy. It's not just that we have a spouse that supports us and talks sense into us,

or even that we have perspective now and something that really motivates us to succeed, since we have

all those new mouths to feed.

It's actually something even simpler. Now we have a sense of urgency, one that we simply could not

have conceived of when we had all the time in the world. Get out of here with that request for a two-hour

meeting. We can get it done in 30 minutes. A call on Saturday at 9 p.m. Not appropriate. Not going to answer.

No, we don't need to fly all the way out there just to meet face to face. No, that conference is just an

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