What Are You Making Them Do?
The Daily Dad
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🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
“There’s a line adapted from Aristotle but given to us by the historian Will Durant: We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act but a habit. The real question as parents then is what are we making our kids do?”
Ryan discusses the importance of realizing that your kids habits define who they are, 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. |
| 0:31.3 | What are you making them do? |
| 0:36.4 | There is a line adapted from Aristotle, but given to us by the historian Will Durant. We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit. The real question then as parents is, what are we making our kids do? Manors can seem silly and enforcing |
| 0:58.3 | them pointless, but perhaps conscientiousness and politeness are virtues worth instilling. Unboxing videos |
| 1:05.6 | on YouTube seem harmless, but perhaps letting them spend hours veged out internalizing the mechanics of materialism |
| 1:12.7 | is the opposite of what we want them to embody. So take a minute today and ask yourself what traits |
| 1:19.5 | you want your kids to embody. Think about what excellence looks like to you and be honest. Are you |
| 1:26.2 | helping them make any of these things a habit? How do your |
| 1:29.4 | routines? How does your life help them fuse those traits into their DNA? Excellence isn't |
| 1:36.2 | something we pursue as a destination. It's something we pursue in the doing day in and day out. |
| 1:43.0 | In the little things as well as the big things. It's something |
| 1:46.2 | that emerges when we turn that type of a pursuit through action into a habit. And it's our job |
| 1:52.7 | as parents to help our kids realize this, to help them realize who they are by what they do |
| 1:58.0 | day to day, what they do this day, today. |
| 2:03.2 | You're listening to a Daily Dad podcast, one meditation a day inspired to help you do your |
| 2:10.4 | most important job, which is be a great father. These are meditations inspired by ancient |
| 2:16.1 | wisdom, psychological research, and just great strategies from normal dads just like you. |
| 2:23.8 | Thanks for listening. |
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