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.

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You'll want them close. John J. O'Connor, the third, grew up in San Francisco. His family was local royalty. He went to college at Stanford just down the road,

and he returned there for law school as well. So how did the O'Connor's end up in Phoenix?

It wasn't that he wanted to be closer to his new wife, Sander Day O'Connor's family,

who lived as far east as one could get in Arizona on a ranch in the middle of nowhere. And it certainly wasn't

because Phoenix was a bustling metropolis of culture, not in the late 1950s anyway. The answer was simple.

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