You Never Know Where They’ll Find Their Thing
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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You don’t know—nobody does—where your kids will find their thing. That thing that lights them up, that makes them think for the first time, I want to do that with my life.
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| 0:33.6 | 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. |
| 0:44.9 | 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. Thank you for |
| 0:57.6 | listening, and we hope this helps. You'll never know where they'll find their thing. It could happen at |
| 1:07.0 | school. It could happen on that trip where you took them out of school. It could happen while |
| 1:11.9 | they're homesick, watching TV. It could happen at a museum or a music store. It could happen in |
| 1:17.5 | their brother's room. Could happen at the zoo. It could happen during a surfing lesson or stumbling |
| 1:22.6 | across a fossil or while reading a book. It could happen during a college seminar. It could happen at a |
| 1:28.8 | political rally. You don't know. Nobody does where your kids will find their thing, that thing |
| 1:35.3 | that lights them up, that makes them think for the first time, this is what I want to do with my life. |
| 1:40.7 | What they want to study, what they want to do for a living, where they want to live, what they |
| 1:45.7 | were put here to do. |
| 1:47.7 | That's probably why the great Robert Green calls this our life's task, and the life's task, |
| 1:54.2 | of a parent, we might say, is to help our kids find their life's task. |
| 1:59.6 | It would be wonderful if where this was supposed to happen was clear, |
| 2:03.6 | but it isn't, which is why we have to cast a wide net. We have to travel with them, read to them, |
| 2:09.3 | watch things with them, take them to hear and see stuff. We have to be deliberate and deliberately |
| 2:14.8 | allow serendipity into their lives. |
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