Ryan Holiday

We not only owe it to ourselves to seek out this hard-won knowledge, we owe it to the people who took the time to record their experiences to try to carry on the traditions and follow their examples to be the promising children of these noble parents.

We all have positive ancestors and negative ancestors.

We have who from our family line we're going to choose.

I think we have a story about this in The Daily Dad.

I noticed it when I was researching Florence Nightingale for Courageous Calling.

Her parents were sort of these spoiled, sensitive, rich people who didn't really do anything.

So it might seem out of step or the apple falling far from the tree that Florence Nightingale became this

Powerhouse in nursing does all this charitable work.

But actually, when you look at her grandfather and great-grandfather and many other relatives, it was her parents who were not the norm.

It was a family of giving and service and actually courage and all these other wonderful traits.

And so we all have that in our family.

We get to choose.

I'm just reading this biography of Ben Franklin right now.

And Ben Franklin has this incredible experience where he just never felt like his father's son.

He was so different than his dad.

And then he goes to England and he visits where his family is from.

And he learns that his uncle...

died on the very day that Franklin was born, separated by a couple of years, but it was like four years.

But his family saw how similar Franklin was to his late uncle.

And they came to think that he was the reincarnation of that spirit.