You Will Be Jealous of This
The Daily Dad
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4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Enjoy it while you can because you’re the lucky one right now. Because one day, you won’t have it anymore.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your |
| 0:39.8 | most important job, being a parent. I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient |
| 0:46.9 | philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, |
| 0:57.3 | and we hope this helps. You will be jealous of this. It's going to happen soon enough. It's |
| 1:05.3 | going to happen to you even though it seems inconceivable right now, desperate as you are for your |
| 1:10.4 | infant to start sleeping, |
| 1:11.7 | your baby to start walking, for them to be in school, for them to get their driver's license. |
| 1:16.5 | You're going to be out to dinner some night or walking through a shopping center or passing |
| 1:19.9 | a young family at the airport and be overwhelmed with jealousy. |
| 1:24.5 | In an interview we mentioned recently, the comedian Bob Odenkirk was asked by Mike Barbiglia, |
| 1:29.4 | there was anyone he was jealous of. And he responded, anybody who's still got little kids at home. |
| 1:36.3 | Soon enough, you'll feel exactly like Odenkirk, whose kids are now 24 and 26. Not only will you be |
| 1:42.2 | jealous of other families still in that phase, you will be jealous of |
| 1:44.7 | yourself. You had it once. You had it not long ago. What did you do with it? You rushed through it. |
| 1:52.5 | You complained about it. You were on your phone through it. Yeah, it can feel rough while you're in it. |
| 1:57.7 | Sometimes you forget the beauty of this age, or if you have very little ones, this stage, and how fleeting it is because you're in it. Sometimes you forget the beauty of this age, or if you have very little ones, |
| 2:01.8 | this stage, and how fleeting it is because you're burnt out and overwhelmed. But one day, |
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