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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.

How to think about obstacles? We can think of hardships many ways as failure, as unfairness, as the end of the conversation.

Clearly, this was not meant to be. We can say they don't want me to succeed, so what's the point of trying? Or we can train ourselves to see it a better way, as grist for the mill, as a chance to learn about endurance, patience, resilience, and struggle, as an opportunity to prove our metal, a way of learning about people or situations or actions or things.

Marcus Aurelius believed in the latter approach. As he wrote, our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces, to what is possible.

It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allows. It turns obstacles into fuel.

As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp, what's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed and consumed by it and makes it burn still higher.

It's not about accepting hardship then, or resigning ourselves to it, rather it's a matter of agreeing to work with the hardship, to decide to make the most of it, to see it as opportunity, not obstacle.

In this way, we can turn what happens to us as fuel. We can be made better and brighter by everything that happens.

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Entrepreneur Phil Knight started a company called Blue Ribbon Sports on the strength of what he called a crazy idea that American joggers needed better running shoes and that they pay top dollar to get them.

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondering Show Business Movers. We tell the true stories of business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transform the way we live our lives.

In our latest series, Phil Knight sets out to build an empire by importing athletic shoes from overseas in Japan. But in 1971, a dispute with a Japanese manufacturer almost brings Blue Ribbon's growth to a screeching halt.

In this moment of crisis, Phil bets the future of his company on a big move. He creates an in-house brand and takes control of the production of his product. Following this bold new direction, Phil ultimately creates one of the most recognizable and successful companies in the world, Nike.

Follow business movers wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen and free on the Amazon Music or Wondering app.

Hey, I'm Brooke and I'm Arisha and we're the hosts of Wondering's podcast, even the rich, where we bring you absolutely true and absolutely shocking stories about the most famous families and the biggest celebrities the world has ever seen.

Our newest series is all about the teen movie icon Gabrielle Union. After spending her childhood trying to assimilate and breaking into a racist industry, Gabrielle thought her success meant someone else had to fail.

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