Who Cares What That Idiot Thinks?

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🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

There are going to be moments in fatherhood—when you’re dancing to Baby Shark to entertain your kid, or you’re way into the third book in the Twilight series for your daughter or you’re making the lamest dad joke of all time—where you might be tempted to step back and think: Oh God, what would the twenty year old version of me think of this? I told myself, I’d never be this guy, and here I am setting up a tent at a soccer game and putting sunscreen on my nose. If they saw me right now, would they mock me mercilessly? Would they kick my ass?

We all think that. We all have that 16-year-old or 25-year-old in our head with their strange, arbitrary and always critical standards for what selling out, or settling, or giving in looks like. Here’s the thing though—and hopefully your own kids give you some perspective on this—but you had absolutely no idea what you were talking about when you first thought those things. You were inexperienced. You were entitled. You were completely self-absorbed. And you were insecure and you were scared and you had not even an inkling of what real love and happiness was.

So that you would be different now, at age _____ with _____ kids? That you would be doing things now you never thought you’d find yourself doing? That’s not selling out. That’s not settling. You’re not a loser. No, you just know something about life now. You know what really matters now. You know what is important to you. And you don’t care as much what people think anymore...starting with that naive teenager in your head.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast.
0:08.0	Every Dad needs a little help, and that's why we made this podcast.
0:12.0	It's one inspiring, philosophically driven, historical-driven, lesson about fatherhood
0:18.0	that you can use to do your most important job a little bit better.
0:31.2	Who cares what that idiot thinks? There are going to be moments in fatherhood when you're
0:36.4	dancing to Baby shark to entertain your
0:38.5	kid, or you're way too into the third book in the Twilight series for your daughter, or you're making
0:43.6	the lamest dad joke of all time, where you might be tempted to step back and think, oh God, what would
0:49.5	the 20-year-old version of me think of this? I told myself, I'd never be that guy, and here I am setting
0:55.4	up a tent at a soccer game and putting sunscreen on my nose. If they saw me right now,
1:00.8	would they mock me mercilessly? Would they kick my ass? We all think that. We have that 16-year-old
1:07.1	or 25-year-old in our head with their strange arbitrary and always critical standards for
1:12.0	what selling out or settling or giving in looks like here's the thing though and hopefully
1:17.6	your own kids have given you some perspective on this but you had absolutely no idea what you
1:25.0	were talking about when you first thought those things. You were inexperienced.
1:29.2	You were entitled. You were completely self-absorbed. And you were insecure and you were scared and you
1:34.1	had not even an inkling of what real love and happiness was. So that you would be different now at age
1:40.6	this or that with kids, that you would be doing things now that you never thought of
1:45.0	yourself doing? That's not selling out. That's not settling. You're not a loser. No, you just know
1:50.4	something about life now. You know what really matters now. You know what is important to you now.
1:56.0	And you don't care as much what people think anymore, starting with that naive teenager in your head. Thanks for listening
2:03.7	to the Daily Dad podcast. Please leave us a review. It helps. Tell your friends, share this with other
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