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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrated with stories from history,

current events and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoke, intention for the week,

something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

How to astonish and inspire for centuries. In Walter Isaacson's wonderful biography of Leonardo da Vinci, he spends a lot of time dissecting and exploring the ideas in Da Vinci's notebooks.

As Isaacson observed a Da Vinci's lifelong habit of journaling 500 years later, Leonardo's notebooks are around to astonish and inspire us.

50 years from now, he says our own notebooks, if we work up the initiative to start them, will be around to astonish and inspire our grandchildren, unlike our tweets and Facebook posts.

Paper, Isaacson said, is one of the best technologies ever invented.

Marcus really says paper journals survive to us today and remain best read and print. Much of what was in those journals was influenced by the handwritten notes that rusticus took while sitting and listening to the lectures of epictetus,

the simple letters that Seneca penned by hand to a friend also endure.

And it's remarkable that the contents of these enduring pieces of paper would fill the journals and commonplace books and published works of writers over the centuries and will continue to for centuries more to come.

Stop wasting your time tweeting and texting and snapchatting or at least steal some of that time to produce your own notebooks.

Create something that if the centuries aren't astonished and inspired by at least your family will be as Isaacson said again, they'll be around for 50 years for your grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Take his advice, get a notebook and start writing.

I am here. Let me grab it off the shelf here. This is my daily stoic journal, rat in the new daily stoic journal leather covers is make time on the front.

Then in the back it has epictetus every day and night keep thoughts like these at hand, write them, read them aloud, talk to yourself and others about them.

I think it's really awesome. We use this great tannery and red wing Minnesota. They've been making leather goods for 150 years. It fits the daily stoic journal exclusively in the US and the UK edition.

It's got these embossed stamped logos. The journal swaps out every year but the cover stays the same.

If you want to start a journaling habit you can bundle the cover and the journal itself for a pretty steep discount, it's like 50% off.

It's a limited sale but you can check it out at store.dailystoic.com or I'll link to it in today's show notes.

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