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.

Where are you trying to get better? Tom Brady has always been relentless about trying to get better,

trying to get his passes out quicker, trying to get his spirals a little tighter, trying to

optimize his diet, trying to recover from games faster. And while none of us are like Tom Brady

on the practice field, we're all like him in the sense that we spend a lot of time and energy

focusing on improving ourselves at work at our chosen craft or profession.

But when it comes to personal improvement, we're a little less intentional there,

even though we and our children would benefit from a similar intentionality.

After he retired and then unretired, Tom Brady talked about his struggles with trying to be an elite

athlete and an elite husband and father. During the offseason, he said, my family's got a lot of time.

I have enjoyed that. He said, I can still do a better job of that, he admitted. It's constantly

trying to be a little bit better each day.

Marcus Aurelius once asked himself why he was trying to get better at wrestling, but not better at being a human being, better at forgiving faults, better at being someone his family could rely on.

It's the million-dollar question.

You're relentless about improving at work, much less so

about improving at home. Where would we be if we could try this even a little bit? If we could

try to get a little bit better each day at being present, at being more patient, at forgiving

faults, at encouraging, at empathizing, at appreciating, at protecting, at prioritizing. How much more

wonderful could life be? And how would this actually make us better at work, too? That's obviously

the idea behind the new book, The Daily Dad, one page a day to help you be better at parenting,

being a better spouse, being a better person. Stoicism is there, so we're all the different

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