Ryan Holiday

You want kids who'd be able to survive the world if something fell apart.

On a little more literary front, I think more people should read this.

This is Kafka's Letter to the Father, which is this confessional, heartbreaking, tragic letter that Kafka writes to his father who he was never really a fit with, never really got...

him and his father never really got his son um there's something very beautiful and vulnerable about this book i've always loved that i've said that just as the road is a parenting book in disguise i think david epstein's range is a parenting book in disguise it's about athletes primarily being generalists or specialists and it contrasts roger federer and tiger woods oh wow

But you can't talk about Tiger Woods and not think of it and that specialization from the lens of choices that his parents made very early.

And I don't know, I talk about this book a lot with sports parents, but any parent who's trying to figure out, you know,

especially in this world of AI.

Do you try to get them really good at one thing or is actually the ultimate vulnerability in a world of disruption and change?

And then we were talking about keeping the fire and being the good guys.

Dr. Becky's Good Inside is a book I've given to a lot of dads and parents across the board.

Her point is just remembering your kid is good inside.

Like they were born good.

They are good.

They are trying their best.

They are not trying to hurt you or drive you insane or kill you or all the things it can sometimes feel like.

And when you start from this premise, you know, it makes some of the things that we do and say and think about as a parent, you know, so obviously counterproductive.

So I thought this was a really sweet and wonderful, wonderful book that I really love.

Okay, so The Road was an Oprah book club pick, and it was popular when it came out.

Reese Witherspoon's book club picked Wild Dark Shores about a year ago.

And this is a book about a family in the midst of a world being destroyed by climate change that is keeping seeds in a seed library on an island off the coast of...