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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

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Courage is contagious. When another country called on Sparta for military help, the Spartans wouldn't send their army.

They sent one Spartan commander. That was all it took to rebuild discipline in the troops to inspire them to toughen them up.

One person who knew what they were doing, who wasn't afraid, who is calm amidst chaos. Courage is, as they say, contagious.

Certainly the history of Stoicism bears this out. Where does Kato get his unfathomable bravery from?

The example of his great grandfather and his father. And Sennaka when Nero's goons came for him from the example of Kato.

For Marcus, it was Antoninus. For Epictetus, it was Musoneus Rufus.

It is key. Epictetus would say to keep company with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

One of the misperceptions of courage is we think it's something that we're born with or we aren't.

No, it's a tradition we choose to follow or not.

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