We All Need to Hear This
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Ryan further discusses the letters that author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter, and what they say about him and his character as a parent, on today's Daily Dad Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your |
| 0:14.1 | most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical |
| 0:20.3 | wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:24.5 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:33.1 | We all need to hear this. |
| 0:35.9 | As we've been discussing, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a master of the fatherly letter. |
| 0:41.3 | He would finish the short letter to his daughter, Francis, and you can listen to our other episodes about this if you miss them, with a short list of things to think about. |
| 0:49.5 | Things to think about. He said, what am I really aiming at? How good am I really in comparison to my |
| 0:55.4 | contemporaries in regards to scholarship? Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along |
| 1:02.7 | with them? Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it? And then he concludes |
| 1:08.6 | with dearest love, and he signs his name, neither he |
| 1:12.2 | nor she would know that he had only a few years left to live, and that he would barely see his |
| 1:17.3 | daughter make it to adulthood. And considering she was only 11 years old at the time you wrote |
| 1:22.3 | this letter, it makes you wonder if he wasn't really writing to her at all, but to himself, a man who, |
| 1:27.1 | by 1933, was a world |
| 1:29.4 | famous author yet racked by self-created financial issues, alcoholism, chronic procrastination, |
| 1:36.1 | and escapism. Our kids need to understand that they have gifts, that life itself is a gift. |
| 1:41.8 | Are they treating that gift well? Fitzgerald wasn't. They need to understand |
| 1:45.9 | that as wonderful as life is, it's also filled with complicated, flawed, even broken people. Can we |
| 1:51.6 | forgive them? Can we put up with them? Can we appreciate them? And finally, we need to understand that |
| 1:57.2 | wisdom is the journey we all have to be on because it helps us with those things. |
| 2:03.1 | And we could all use a little reminder of that today, no matter how old we are. |
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