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 must be immune to this. There have always been fads and trends. There have always been crowds and mobs. There are

always backlashes and panics, demagogues, and undercurrents. People fall for them. That's what

humanity does. That's what societies do. But you must resist. You must not be pulled in.

One of the hardest tasks of our time, as we said over at Daily Stoke, is to not let bad times turn you into a bad person,

to not get caught up in reactionary movements to give yourself over to grievance or radicalization.

And this is especially true for parents because in your care is the next generation.

Right next to you is an impressionable person looking for values, looking for hope,

forming their opinions about others, trying to figure this whole life thing out.

You must show them that you mean what you say, that you weren't just paying lip service

to the ideas you read to them in those children's books, that character actually is important,

that kindness does matter, that love is more important than

hate or resentment, that we do have the power to make the world better. You cannot give yourself

over to bitterness or rage. You must condemn demagoguery and dishonesty and hypocrisy when you see it.

You must swim against the currents of our time. This is your job. The future depends on it.

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