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.

Who are you studying for their sake?

What kind of books do dads like? Well, according to the displays at

Barnes & Noble and Costco, it's almost exclusively books about war and history. Have you ever

wondered why that is? Why did your dad, who maybe didn't read very much, still managed to get

through one or two 500-page biographies each year.

Here's why. Those books, whether they're about sports or the Civil War, in the end, all

teach about leadership. In the lives of great figures from history, however distant from your

own, we are taught all sorts of lessons about life. You didn't credit him for it, but your dad was learning

how to be a better dad. Plutarch, whose writings have been popular for nearly 2,000 years,

would explain that it wasn't facts and figures that we pick up from these books. For neither

is it histories we are writing, but lives he would write, nor is there by any means display of

merit or vice in the most outstanding actions, but often a trivial matter as well as a remark,

where some joke have offered a better illustration of character than clashes with countless

casualties and the biggest battalions and sieges of cities. So the question for you today

is what books are you reading? What books are you studying? What biography and history do you have

on your nightstand? Whose lives are you reading? This answer reveals what hope of progress

your character has and what kind of example you are ultimately

setting for your kids. And look, if it's not too on the nose, I'd obviously like to recommend my new

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