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.

You can be a dad anywhere.

When we think teacher, we think classroom, when we think leader, we think the corner

office or the lectern or a general in front of their troops.

But the truth is that a teacher can do their job anywhere and in many forms, just as a leader

can.

Plutarch would say of Socrates that he did not set up desks for his students, sit in a teacher's chair, or reserve

a pre-arranged time for lecturing and walking with his pupils. No, he practiced philosophy while

joking around and drinking and serving on military campaigns and hanging around the marketplace

with some of his students, and finally even while under arrest and drinking the hemlock,

he was the first to demonstrate that our lives are open to philosophy at all times and in every

aspect while experiencing every emotion and in each and every activity. As with teaching and with

leadership and with philosophy, so too with parenting. You can be a dad anywhere.

It's not just on fishing trips or at family dinners. It's not just about carrying them around in a

baby Bjorn or going to back to school night. It's not about punishments or incentives or

rules or life lessons, though, of course, it's about all these things too. Remember what we

talked about with

quality time versus garbage time? It may just be that the most impact you'll have as a dad

will come while joking around. It may come on a walk. It may come on how you do your job and how you

show them your work. It may come on a family vacation, or it may come while you're watching TV

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