You Can’t Run Away From This

The Daily Dad

Daily Dad

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

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We can’t just throw up our hands and say, “I’m busy, I can’t deal with this.” Because not only is that not fair to our children, it’s not fair to us.

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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.
0:31.3	This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Wintertime is cozy. You stay inside. You see family. Things slow down a little bit.
0:41.6	It gets dark earlier. There's some nice parts of that and there's some dark sides of that.
0:47.3	Sometimes people's mental health really suffers during the winter. Seeing family can be stressful,
0:52.5	can bring up issues. To me, this is a wonderful time to
0:57.1	think about taking care of yourself a little bit. And therapy is a great way to give yourself
1:01.7	comfort that never goes away, even as the seasons change. I always leave therapy feeling like
1:06.1	I've accomplished something. I know I'm working on myself. I'm not solving a problem in every session necessarily,
1:12.3	but I know I'm making progress. And if you're thinking of starting therapy, if maybe you need
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1:57.3	While it's hard to be away from your children, it can also be hard to be with your children, at least for some of us compared to our work.
2:02.1	Because we're good at what we do, because what we do doesn't talk back, because we're rewarded financially with recognition for our successes at work, and often right away,
2:08.2	whereas the time and energy invested in our children can be a thankless or an exercise in delayed
2:13.6	gratification at best. It's difficult to admit this, but it's true, and it's something that
2:20.1	the talented and successful have often struggled with for a long time. The wife of one of Queen
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