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 started over.

It doesn't matter how many decades old you were. It doesn't matter what you'd

experience, what you knew, how smart or powerful you were. A turning point was reached when you had

kids. The morning after I gave birth, the actress Jennifer Lawrence reflected in a recent interview,

I felt like my whole life had started over. Like, now is day one of my life, she said.

I had just started.

I was just so in love.

Christians talk of being born again, and parenting is in its own way a similar experience.

Everything that happened before is made irrelevant.

Every plan you had for the future, every opinion you had about how things were is now subject for review.

The whole direction of your life is now an open question up for consideration.

There was life BK and AK, before kids, after kids.

Your priorities are different now.

The volume on some things is turned up

and on other things turned way, way down. You're more vulnerable now, more open. Jennifer Lawrence

talked about how before, if she was on a plane and she heard a baby crying, she'd be frustrated,

or at a restaurant if she saw one, she'd be indifferent. Now she's empathetic to those parents.

Now I love all babies, she said.

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