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.

It's just starting to get warm here in Austin, and we were running around the pool, not ready to jump in, but we were playing near the pool and squirting each other with these squirt guns that my kids made in one of their Kiwi kits.

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Try not to be this.

In just a few words,

Whitman was able to get to the essence of it.

Not of America, not of the body or the soul or the natural world,

as he so expertly and often did in his poems. No, his father he was speaking of but really a generation of fathers in fact a type of father that

continues to this day he writes the father strong self-sufficient manly mean angered unjust

the blow the quick loud word the tight bargain, the crafty lure.

Maybe that's your father. Maybe there's flashes of you in there, too. And certainly the father

and Adam Hothschild's book, Halfway Home, it's Springsteen's dad, it's 10 Williams, is captured

in Wright Thompson's incredible profile. It's Lincoln's father. It's way too many people's

fathers. It's the kind of parent that haunts a child, that haunts them into adulthood, the one whose

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