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.

We spend so much time at the office trying to get better at our jobs, trying to make a little

more money trying to climb further up the

ladder. We spend hours in the gym over the course of a life trying to get in better shape,

trying to hit personal records. We spend mountains of time online, trying to help our fantasy football

teams, trying to find discount codes to save money shopping, trying to stay abreast of our friends

and family's lives. So we tell ourselves.

It's all good stuff for the most part, but it calls to mind a certain question about our priorities,

doesn't it? A better wrestler, Marcus Aurelius wrote in meditations, but not a better citizen, a better

person, a better resource in tight places, better forgiver of faults.

We spend a lot of time on superficial stuff.

We even call it work.

But rarely do we expend the same amount of effort on the stuff that really matters.

In fact, even Mark Surrealis, his quote, demonstrates this.

Notice that he doesn't say anything about being a better parent.

This is a guy who had a dozen kids and one of of them, comitous, clearly could have used a better

debt.

Marcus doesn't say anything about being a better spouse either, and some of the rumors about

his marriage point to him needing to do some work there, too.

Now, one could certainly argue that all this domestic stuff is cluded under the banner of

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