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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

A test of your worth. Here's a question to ask yourself about your work and your life. Do you create value for society or do you extract it? Are you a giver or a taker?

Do you make the world better by your choices and actions and lifestyle? When the Stoics talk about sympathy, they refer to this idea that we all have a role, that we're all part of a larger whole.

And of course, the Stoics are not so naive that they didn't understand that some people's roles in that were to be shameless, to be evil, to be lazy, or whatever.

Marcus alludes to an idea and meditations that even people who are sleeping are doing a job of some kind.

But just because that is some people's role, that doesn't mean it's a good role or that it should be yours.

It's worth taking the time on a regular basis to stop and consider what you are contributing to this whole crazy system we've been born into.

Marcus said that we are made to do works for the common good. Well, are you? Are you helping people? Is what you sell actually worth people's money and therefore time?

Or are you such a good marketer that you trick them into thinking so decide to create value? Decide to give more than you take. Make the world better by being in it.

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