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.

Everyone in our house was recovering from a cold last week, and then so this weekend was finally the first chance that we got to go on our family walk, which we hadn't been able to do. And so we laced up our Hoka Mach 6s. The folks at Hoka were nice enough to send us all matching pairs. So I have a pair. My wife has a pair. Clark has a pair. Jones has a pair. It's pretty cute as we walked down the dirt roads by where we lived,

walked through our property. It's a light, fast, and undeniably comfy shoe. It's got a kid's specific

design, and the fit will free your kid's inner speedster for a daily fun. To learn more about

the kids' mock six shoe, visit today's show notes. Check it out.

Those things don't matter. You work so hard to provide your kids a better life.

You saved up for that down payment.

You built up that equity slowly month after month over years of payments.

You work so hard to achieve something, to build something, a name, a business, a life that you can someday pass to them.

It swells you with pride to think of it soon.

This will all be theirs.

It's what parents what

providers have been doing as long as there's been civilization many of them maybe even most of them

though have also been lying to themselves the entire time this was a cover for their ambitions

this was justification for their absence was compensation for love or affection they weren't

given the timeless and brilliant novel

All the King's Men climaxes in a haunting scene at the hospital. The relentless, ambitious,

and once decent Willie Stark had neglected his family to become a powerful politician. He modeled

the worst behavior for his son. He pushed him to play football against his wife's wishes,

and now their son has

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