A couple months before I became a father, I had never changed a diaper in all my life. There was nothing in my life that had ever prepared me for this. At the same time I knew exactly how to go about it. It’s hard to explain but everywhere in my body there were small signals telling me that it’s okay and that it’ll be just fine. So I felt calm. And I'm not a particularly nervous person.

But I still didn’t know how to change a diaper. It is probably the world's easiest thing to learn, I thought. It's just that I hadn’t spent time in circles where you change diapers on babies.

When I was in college I learned to drink whiskey, write poetry, listen to Tom Waits, make music, stand up before a large audience, juggle, hit uppercuts and rock-hard right hooks.

When I worked on the radio I learned how rto interview major celebrities with equal-sized egos, running an entire radio show myself as both presenter, producer and technician, talking to people who have gone through fire and water without beginning to cry in the middle of live coverage and to not go on nationwide live radio and say that all Swedish politicians are from a planet where everyone is stupid in the head.

Nowhere did anyone step up and teach me how to change diapers.

Nowhere did anyone say, "Hey, Navid. Can you change diapers?

I would have responded; No. But I look forward to learning how.