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.

Our parents weren't everything that we needed. Maybe it was more time we needed, more understanding,

more kindness, more support, more love, more just them having their act together. But they weren't

this. And sadly, they also weren't what the world needed. Few generations have been. They kicked

problems down the road. They started wars that cost blood and treasure to little purpose.

They abused the environment. They averted their

gaze. They turned their hearts away from sufferings and injustice. In a recent interview on Mark

Merron's podcast, Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about his own life as a parent, as a politician,

as a person was largely driven by the desire to go in a different direction than the example

of his father and his father's

generation. His father had been a Nazi. His father drank too much. His father smacked his kids around.

Did Arnold have to follow in those footsteps? No. I wanted to be a different generation,

he explained. I wanted to be the next generation. I wanted to show people that

within one generation, you can actually go and say, no, never again. We're going to go in a different

direction. Each of us has the power to make a break, to be and give what we didn't get. It may not be

as severe as diverting from a father like Arnold's, but we can do better than our own parents.

We can make a mark as a new generation. We can have the opportunity to break away from habits

or the mindsets that pains you about your own childhood or your parents' childhood.

You can be different. It can be better. We can go in a different direction. We have to.

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