Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

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and for sponsoring this episode. Your last will and testament. On June 8th, 1948, a Canadian man named

Cecil Harris was crushed underneath his tractor.

Trapped for hours and an excruciating pain, he took out his pocket knife and carved a rudimentary

will to his wife in the metal that was killing him. In case I die in this mess, I leave it all to the wife,

Cecil Gio Harris.

The note on the fender reads, as it happens, this last minute will would be accepted by

a court upon his death the next day.

But that's not the point of Cecil's story, at least not today.

Imagine that you were similarly trapped, or perhaps you've just been hit by a car and on

the side of the road,

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