You Can’t Be Naive

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

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Ryan discusses why you should always be striving to understand more about the world around you, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.

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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.
0:14.8	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.
0:34.6	You can't be naive.
0:46.2	If you've ever listened to an interview with the great author Robert Green, you've heard him get asked about the ruthless and Machiavellian messages in his books.
0:51.3	He doesn't write them because he believes the world needs more master manipulators.
0:55.4	He didn't write them to be used as playbooks in one's quest for power and control for negative ends, and he didn't really even write them for people in
1:01.9	positions of power. No, the books were born out of Robert's own rude awakening to the ways of the
1:09.3	world. I'm naturally quite naive. Robert often says,
1:14.5	I have violated many of the laws of power and human nature over the years. Before I wrote these
1:20.2	books on power and human nature, if I had had more awareness earlier on, it would have saved me
1:26.8	a great deal of grief and a lot of drama in my
1:29.8	life. And so in a way, his books are intended to save us from that grief and the drama that comes
1:37.3	from refusing to see the world as it is. As Robert writes in his newest book, The Daily Laws, 366 meditations on power, seduction, mastery, strategy, and human nature,
1:50.9	which you can pick up at my bookstore The Painted Porch, and I hope you do link in the show notes.
1:56.7	He says, with such acceptance, it is not that we love it and want to go out in the world and play all these nasty games.
2:03.2	It's that we understand they exist.
2:05.6	If occasionally we have to use the laws in playing offense or defense, we're okay with that within reason.
2:12.3	Most often it is the case that other people are practicing them on us.
2:17.4	And it's better to understand what they are
2:19.2	up to than live in a dream world of our angelic nature. And so we understand the laws of power.
2:25.9	We understand what people are up to so they can't easily hurt us. And armed with such an attitude
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