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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 you look at things matters. If you've ever been stuck in Los Angeles traffic at night, you know it's miserable.

But if you've ever seen a helicopter shot of Los Angeles at night, you know how the same miserable experience can suddenly be made to seem beautiful and serene.

The chaos of international politics can strike us with fear. Wars break out. Property is destroyed and people are killed. Yet if you zoom out just slightly, all those terrifying CNN updates seem to blur together into an almost coordinated dance of nations lurching towards a balance of power. We call that history.

Same thing, different perspective. Life is like that. We can look at it one way and be scared or angry or worried. We can look at it another and find an exciting challenge.

We can choose to look at something as an obstacle or an opportunity. We can see chaos if we look up close or order if we look from afar.

Which is the right lens? What perspective does the stoic bring to each experience? That's a trick question. The stoics alternate between lenses, choosing to see things in the way that allows them to move forward, to reduce anxiety, to find humility, even humor.

As Epic Titus has said, each situation has two handles. One that will bear weight and one that won't. We have to choose carefully and properly.

The world is died by our thoughts colored by the glasses we decide to wear. So that's what you have to think about today and always. How are you going to look at things? Which perspective will you choose?

Will you choose to be miserable or odd, terrified or reassured? It's up to you. It's up to us.

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From Wondery comes a new series, flipping the bird, Elon versus Twitter. A story about what happens when the richest man on the planet decides to acquire a powerful social media company in the name of free speech. But does he have what it takes?

It started off promising. Or is this all just about Elon?

He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he would expect them to. But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs.

And what will be left of Twitter by the time he's done?

Basically, my entire team was gone by the end of it. Infrastructure was just completely gutted. He'll like tweet a thing and then everyone's like, we got a word on that now because he tweeted it.

I'm supposed to believe this man is a genius. It just felt like everything was kind of descending into chaos.

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Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle? What should be done? Is a new platform needed? Is Twitter dying?

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