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The Daily Dad

You Are Not Enough People

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

Society & Culture, Dads, Relationships, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Ryan Holiday, Wisdom, Education, Fatherhood

4.8602 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

 How did parents in the past do it? They did it together. They did it as a village. 

 

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0:00.0

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.

0:14.9

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

0:23.4

parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

0:31.3

You are not enough people. When you lose your temper, when you mess up, when you aren't present,

0:37.3

when you forget something important, when you get burned out, when you just can't give your kids what they need, at the root of it, it's always the same thing.

0:46.9

All these situations have something in common.

0:51.1

In the middle of a disagreement with his wife, the author Kurt Vonnegut, who had always

0:55.4

envied her large, close-knit family, realized that she and he were expecting something

1:02.2

impossible from each other. When a couple has an argument, he said they may think it's about

1:07.0

money or power or sex or how to raise the kids or whatever. What they're really saying

1:12.1

to each other, though, without realizing it, is this, you are not enough people. How did parents in the

1:19.2

past do it? They did it together. They did it as a village. They didn't wall themselves off from each

1:26.1

other like we do. They didn't expect one or two people to do the job of dozens of people.

1:32.6

For many reasons, it's probably for the best that most of us don't live in villages anymore.

1:37.2

But there are consequences to this development, one that every modern parent feels acutely on daily basis.

1:44.4

Even more so, if you're one of those people who has moved away from home for a job, a partner,

1:49.3

or have some kind of digital or hybrid profession.

1:52.9

We are fortunate to have such opportunities and freedom,

1:56.0

but this has not been without its costs or stresses.

1:59.7

We are not meant to parrot alone. We are not enough people to

2:04.1

possibly handle this alone. And that's why we've been working here at Daily Dad on a society of a group

2:11.7

for parents to come together and rediscover some level of that support. A community where we could share wins and hard days,

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