Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you

with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy,

by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

You have to make time for this. You're stressed. You're busy. You have so much on your plate.

Time to read other than kids' books. Get out of here. Except maybe stressed. You're busy. You have so much on your plate. Time to read. Other than

kids' books? Get out of here. Except maybe the latter is the solution for the former. If you want to be

less stressed, you've got to make time for yourself to read, to think, to learn. The great William

Osler, the founder of John Hopkins Medical University, told his medical students it was important

that they turned to literature as a way

to nourish and relax their minds. When chemistry distresses your soul, he said, seek peace in the great

pacifier. Shakespeare. He said, 10 minutes with Montana will lighten the burden. That sounds heady,

okay? So maybe a book about World War II or a book of David

Cedarist stories or something funny, something that teaches, something that takes into a fantasy world.

As Osler writes, start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in

communion with the saints of humanity. There are great lessons to be learned from Job and David, from Isaiah and St. Paul.

taught by Shakespeare, you may take your intellectual and moral measure with singular precision.

Learn to love Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.

Should you be so fortunate as to be born a Platonist,

Jowett will introduce you to the great master through whom alone we can think

in certain levels and whose perpetual modernist startles and delights. Montania will teach you

moderation on all things, and to be sealed of his tribe is a special privilege. Never has the news

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