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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No father wants to see their kids suffer.

It's almost more painful for you than it is for them to watch them trip over their words,

to scratch their heads in front of their homework, or to bumble their way through the early years of their career. Biologically, this makes sense. You're designed to want to save them,

to empathize on almost a self-destructive level. But evolutionarily, it also doesn't make much sense. If they

never struggle, they can't grow, they can't learn, and they can't get better. Thomas Edison,

a genius and a business success, if there ever was one, himself had trouble with this exact issue.

He was so brilliant, so headstrong, so clear about what he wanted that he could not quite give

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