Pain Is A Part Of Life | Become An Expert In What Matters

<p><em>This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book </em><a href="https://www.dailydadbook.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>**The Daily Dad</em></a><em>.</em>**</p><p>“Even though you have these powers free and entirely your own, you don’t use them, because you still don’t realize what you have or where it came from.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;I am prepared to show you that you have resources and a character naturally strong and resilient.”</p><p>-Epictetus</p><p>Oh, how you wish you could guarantee they will never suffer. Of course, you know that’s not possible. As the character in Hermann Hesse’s <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/fiction28?_pos=1&amp;_sid=d306fc24a&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Siddhartha</em></a> says, we cannot spare our kids the suffering we have gone through in our lives. We cannot prevent them from suffering at all. Because suffering and pain are parts of life.</p><p>---</p><p>And in today's Daily Stoic excerpt reading, Ryan examines why the danger in becoming "an expert in trivia" is that it results in understanding everything but oneself.</p><p>📗 Preorder your <a href="https://store.dailydad.com/checkouts/c/5275f7a2db4140265efde7146bc4f341/information" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed and numbered first edition </a>of <a href="https://www.dailydadbook.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kid</em></a> before its May 2 release.</p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com