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.

You don't have time. Maybe you did before, maybe one day you will again, but right now you don't. We talked

recently about some of the folks who comment on the Daily Dad Instagram. You should follow us,

or reply to these emails. Sure, some of the responses are nice, but so many of them are self-righteous

and hectoring, judgmental, and superior. There's something profoundly sad about these commenters, too,

because whether they know it or not, they are the punchline in that famous old cartoon.

Sorry, honey, I can't come to bed right now. Someone is wrong on the internet. These people have

children and what are they doing, picking fights over parenting advice? The best part of it,

the best part is that it's invariably

over stuff that you wouldn't think it would even be possible to disagree with. Supporting your kids,

loving them unconditionally, using a light touch, helping them become who they are, not what you

want them to be. The most ironic are the angry responses to a video we posted about not having so many opinions

about things your kids do, which is one of our most underused powers, according to Marcus

Julius. Tom Seguer was right when he said that having kids means you should not have time

for this crap anymore. You should not be getting sucked in. Even if the other person is wrong,

even if you do know better, because if you really did know better, then you'd be spending that

energy positively in your own home, not shouting into the void. I was just talking to a guest on the

Daily Stoak podcast the other day about making better decisions. And we're saying that instead of

of just magically getting better at making better decisions and we're saying that instead of just

magically getting better at making better decisions why don't you just sleep better and then you'll make

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