Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

We are all in this together.

It's easy to forget this. It's easy to give in to dissension and conflict in zero-sumness, especially now, especially when things are so dark. And isn't that the natural state of things survival of the fittest? We're in a war. Our genes need to survive. So screw those other parents. Screw their kids.

There are only so many spots at Harvard, you know, so many spots in the preschool that will

increase their chances to get there. We talked recently about that beautiful Alanis-Morset song

she wrote as a message to her two children about keeping the lights in their eyes ablaze.

And as she sings, first thing you'll notice is some separation from each other. Yes, it's a lie.

She sings. We've been believing since time immemorial. There was an apple. There was a snake.

There was division. There was a split. there was a conflict in the fabric of life.

One became two and then everyone was out for themselves.

Everyone was pitted against each other.

Conflict ruled the realm.

All our devotions and temperaments are pulled from different wells, she says.

They seem to so easily forget that we are

made of the same cells. Remember, we're all in this together, raising families together. Our interests are

far more aligned than they are misaligned. Better schools, we all benefit. Better environment, we all benefit.

Public health, we all benefit. Conversely,

an extractive economy where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, partisan politics,

hypocrisy, viciousness. In the end, this comes back to haunt all of us. It comes back to

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