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The Daily Dad

You Are So Lucky

The Daily Dad

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Dads, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Fatherhood, Education, Wisdom, Relationships, Ryan Holiday, Self-improvement, Parenting

4.6629 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The odds of any of this happening is literally incomprehensible. Some scientists have estimated that the chances of any one person being born are somewhere in the realm of one in four hundred trillion.

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0:00.0

I'm Thank you. I was just out with my kids chopping up some kindling and firewood for a trip we're going on together, and I was actually using something I got from today's sponsor, Bespoke Post. I got this really cool hatchet from them in one of their kits.

0:47.0

Spoke Post is just a wonderful way to get awesome stuff delivered to your door with what they call.

0:52.7

They're a box of awesome. You fill out this cool quiz.

0:56.3

Your answers help pick the right box of awesome for you. They release new boxes every month

1:00.3

across a ton of different categories. Each box is valued around 70 bucks, but you only pay a

1:05.0

fraction of that price. And with each box of awesome, you're supporting local businesses,

1:10.1

90% of everything that comes in your box of awesome comes from a small up-and-coming brand like this cool hatchet I've got.

1:16.7

It's free to sign up.

1:17.8

You could skip a month or cancel at any time.

1:19.7

Get 20% off your first monthly box when you sign up at boxofawson.com and enter the code daily dad at boxof awesome.com. You are so lucky. The odds of any of this happening is literally incomprehensible.

1:55.4

Some scientists have estimated the chances of any one person being born are somewhere in the realm of one in 400 trillion.

2:03.5

But what are the odds that you would meet your spouse or a co-parent?

2:07.1

That you would both have the experiences that you've had, that you would conceive when you did,

2:11.3

and that your children would be born, would have this hair color instead of that one,

2:15.1

in this country, instead of that one, be this gender or that one,

2:18.0

be tall instead of short, be blessed with athletic ability instead of two left feet. It's more than a

2:24.3

miracle. It's miraculous even on the spectrum of unlikely miracles. Yet here you are. And because you're

2:31.7

here, here they are. You are blessed beyond blessings. And still somehow

2:36.6

in this whole different kind of miracle, you've managed to take so much of this blessing for granted.

2:43.6

That must stop now. Every day we must take the time to ponder the improbability of it all,

2:50.1

the wonderness of it all, of love,

2:52.9

of family, of kids. As we watch them fall in love with baseball or ballet, learn how to work a

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