Your Job Is To Bother
The Daily Dad
Daily Dad
4.6 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
“They’d rather you not check in so much. They’d rather you not tell them how you feel about them so much. They’d rather you not hug them in front of their friends. And? It’s not a coincidence that father rhymes with bother. That’s our job. To be up in their business.”
Ryan discusses the importance of being involved in your children’s lives, on today’s Daily Dad podcast.
The Boy Who Would Be King is out now, written by Ryan Holiday in the depths of the pandemic (not unlike the one Marcus ruled through), this new beautifully crafted book is available now. Go to dailystoic.com/king to order now and you’ll automatically get the free audiobook.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you |
| 0:12.3 | with your most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, |
| 0:17.7 | by practical wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world. |
| 0:22.8 | Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:31.2 | Your job is to bother. They'd rather you not check in so much. They'd rather you not tell them how you feel about |
| 0:39.2 | them so much. They'd rather you not hug them in front of their friends. And it's not a coincidence that |
| 0:46.9 | father rhymes with bother. That's our job to be up in their business. As we've said before, |
| 0:54.0 | bothering is not the same as nagging or overloading. |
| 0:57.1 | Bothering is about being involved. Not being so involved that they never fail or never have space, |
| 1:03.0 | but just enough that they know that we're there and that we care. Sure, they might squirm a bit. |
| 1:08.9 | They might complain. They might tease or make fun of us, but that's how we know we're doing our jobs because they feel us there in their lives, on their side, up in their business. |
| 1:22.8 | My new book, The Boy Who Would Be King, it's an illustrated fable about the early years of Marcus Aurelius, |
| 1:29.5 | how this little boy was selected from obscurity and ruled the world and did so without being |
| 1:35.5 | corrupted by it. He really did become the man that philosophy wanted him to be. And that book is now |
| 1:41.6 | out. It's available everywhere. I've been working on this book for the last year. It came out of the pandemic for me. Something I've wanted to be. And that book is now out. It's available everywhere. I've been working on this book for the last |
| 1:44.8 | year. It came out of the pandemic for me, something I've wanted to do for a really long time. You can check it out. Go to dailystoke.com slash king, or you can pick up the boy who would be king anywhere. Books are sold, including on Amazon. But if you buy it from us at dailystoke.com slash king, to get the audiobook for free, which has me reading it and a bunch of other cool people. |
| 1:44.1 | So check it out The at daily stoke.com slash king, you get the audiobook for free, |
| 2:01.5 | which has me reading it and a bunch of other cool people. So check it out, The Boy Who Would Be King, |
| 2:05.3 | and we should learn to lead like Marcus Aurelius, and we should try to not just make Stelisom |
| 2:10.1 | proud, but we should try to make the example of Marcus Aurelius proud. |
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