Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson looks to his daughters for a game plan. 

The Smashing Machine star admitted that he has been the one learning from daughters Simone, 24—whom he shares with ex Dany Garcia—as well as his and wife Lauren Hashian’s Jasmine, 9 and Tiana, 6, in more ways than one. 

“They taught me to be selfless,” Johnson admitted in an interview with E! News’ Francesca Amiker at the Los Angeles premiere of the Benny Safdie film. “I grew up an only child and when you’re an only child, like me, I can’t speak for all only children out there, you think about yourself first.”

As he put it, “That was me for a long time until I had my girls.” 

And while that level of selflessness comes with having kids, the 53-year-old admitted he has gleaned even more from being a girl dad. 

“The joy of walking through life with this curiosity,” he continued. “There’s this great saying I heard some time ago that goes, ‘Every man wants a son, but needs a daughter.’ And I have three, and there is nothing like that bond between a father and his daughter. I feel that deeply with my girls.”