You Come From A Strong Tradition
The Daily Dad
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🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
If you’re in your 30s, then your parents raised you through the global financial crisis, SARS, the bursting of the tech bubble, and 9/11. They saw two wars in Iraq, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Black Monday. If you’re in your 40s, they experienced that and the crack epidemic, the AIDS epidemic, stagflation, Chernobyl, and the final saber rattling of the Cold War. If you’re in your 50s, then your parents raised you through Vietnam and Watergate and the Berlin Wall. If you’re in your 60s, they raised you through the Civil Rights movement, the counterculture revolution, the draft, Vietnam, the Kennedy assassinations, MLK’s assassination, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you’re older than that… well, now we’re getting into even headier territory: the war in Korea, the Iron Curtain, the Second World War, the Marshall Plan, and god knows what else.
You think that was easy? You think there weren’t moments where they shut the door and wept out of anger or fear? You think they didn’t spend a lot of nights sitting up in bed, talking quietly to their partner about what was going to happen, about how (and if) they were going to make it? They were scared. They were overwhelmed. They wondered what kind of world this was to bring you up in.
And then you know what? They put on a smiling face and made you breakfast. They went to work. They saved their money. They prepared for your future. They loved you. They protected you. They soldiered on.
You come from that tradition. You come from parents who didn’t have it easy… and grandparents who had it harder, and great-great-great grandparents who definitely had it worse. What we face today is tough. These are real economic, political, and medical crises. But we’ll get through it. We’ll get through it as our parents did. We’ll keep smiling. We’ll keep protecting. We’ll keep doing our job.
Because we have to. We have a tradition to uphold.
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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. |
| 0:13.9 | 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. |
| 0:25.6 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:30.6 | You come from a strong tradition. |
| 0:34.6 | If you are in your 30s, then your parents raised you through the global financial crisis, |
| 0:39.6 | SARS, the bursting of the tech bubble in 9-11. They saw two wars in Iraq and the collapse of Soviet |
| 0:46.7 | Russia and Black Monday. If you're in your 40s, they experienced that and the crack epidemic |
| 0:52.3 | and the AIDS epidemic, stagflation, Chernobyl, and the final |
| 0:56.4 | saber rattling of the Cold War. If you're in your 50s, then your parents raised you through |
| 1:01.8 | Vietnam and Watergate and the Berlin Wall. If you're in your 60s, they raised you through the |
| 1:07.9 | civil rights movement, the counterculture revolution, the draft, |
| 1:11.8 | Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King's assassination, and the Cuban missile |
| 1:17.5 | crisis. |
| 1:18.5 | If you're older than that, well, now we're getting into even headier territory. |
| 1:23.5 | The war in Korea, the Iron Curtain, the Second World War, the Marshall Plan, and God knows what else. |
| 1:29.6 | You think that was easy? You think there weren't moments when they shut the door and wept out of |
| 1:34.5 | anger or fear? You think they didn't spend a lot of nights sitting up in bed talking quietly to your |
| 1:40.2 | mother about what was going to happen, about how and if they were going to make it, |
| 1:45.2 | they were scared, they were overwhelmed, they wondered what kind of world this was to bring you up in. |
| 1:51.2 | And then you know what? They put on a smiling face and they made you breakfast. They went to work. |
| 1:56.5 | They saved their money. They prepared for your future. They loved you. They protected you. They |
| 2:02.1 | soldiered on. You come from that tradition. You come from parents who didn't have it easy. |
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