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 I hope this helps. You are never not afraid.

It would be wonderful if it ever eased up, but it doesn't. You're worried when they're in the womb, and here you are all these years later still worrying. Are they doing okay? Are they getting enough nutrients? Is something going to happen to them? Are they happy? More than worry, actually, you fear. You wake up in the middle of the night. Your stomach drops when you get the alert from their school, when you hear a news story, when you contemplate the direction the world seems

to be going in. When you have a child, Joan Didion once said, you are never not afraid. Because your

heart is now outside your body, because it's now painfully clear, as the Stoics tried to point out,

how not in control you are. And it's important painfully clear, as the Stoics tried to point out, how not in control you are.

And it's important that we acknowledge and accept this fear, because it's there, because it's not

going anywhere. And it's also important that we understand what courage is. Courage is not the

absence of doubt or fear or being afraid. If it was, there wouldn't be anything impressive about it, would

there? Heroes know that what they're doing is dangerous. Bravery is proceeding despite the fear.

It's stealing yourself and carrying on because you've got something important to do,

because you've got a cause you believe in because people are counting on you. In this case,

it's so clear who is counting on you, how important what

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