Stoicism for solopreneurs

Do you enjoy being a dad?

Someone asked me if I enjoy being a dad…
It’s one of those weird ones where all the individual parts are negative, but somehow they all add up to net positive.

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Parenting can feel like holding a stress position for 4 hours at a time, whilst being kicked in the balls by a tiny bald man who screams in your ear all day.
You put up with the kind of physical torture that would make CIA blush.
Except now instead of doing it in private we do it in the public town square whilst everyone walking past tells you how much you should enjoy every minute of it,
how much better they are coping,
or how much harder it was in their day.

Aren’t kids so great?
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But then they smile and all is worth it.
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Nicholas Robb

Founder, Design Hero
Author of Life by Design
Nicholas@lifebydesign.online

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