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.

We're all in the same boat now. People who are very successful, very rich, or very famous can tell you there's something alienating and strange about being on the far end of the spectrum of life. Same goes too, surely for those who've experienced adversity, poverty, or discrimination. But sort of like security at the

airport or traffic on the highway, parenting is a great equalizer. Suddenly, we're all dealing

with the same issues. Suddenly, we're all helplessly. Suddenly, we're all helplessly in love.

We're equally sleep deprived. We're equally sunburned and bored at soccer games. We're equally at the mercy of our children's teachers. We're equally sleep deprived, we're equally sunburned and bored at soccer games, we're equally

at the mercy of our children's teachers, we're equally slaves to the affections and the whims of these

little tyrants who we've brought into the world through no fault of their own.

This parenting thing is a solitary familial journey, but we're missing something when we forget

all the parallel and nearly identical

journeys happening all around us. You're not the first one to be going through whatever

difficulties you're facing, nor will you be the last. That means we have an opportunity to learn

and then to teach. If we can both just be humbled and empowered by this position we found ourselves in,

as Martin Luther King Jr. said, we may have arrived in different ships, but we're all in the same boat.

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