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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.

It depends on how you look at it.

Seneca was not excited to be exiled to Corsica, a mountainous and rough-hune island 60 miles off the coast of Italy.

It was over 180 miles from Rome. It was a rock in the middle of the ocean with a single paved road. It was far from his friends and family.

Anyone who reads the consolation he wrote to his mother during his time there can see that he was really consoling himself because he was miserable in this God-for-saken place.

So it catches a student of history off guard to read Napoleon's descriptions of the bucolic boyhood and beloved homeland he loved so much. The island of Corsica.

This was a place he was willing to fight and die for. This was the place he wanted to see one last time before he was exiled, the place he wept to think he would never see again.

That's sort of how things go, isn't it? It's what that expression that one man's trash is another man's treasure means. But also that one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

What matters is how we choose to look at things. What matters is the perspective we bring to the situations we face.

Senna could have drank in the beauty that Napoleon did. He could have approached Corsica with more childlike eyes, but instead all you could see was what he lost.

All he could do was compare his fate to his life in Rome. And so doing he deprived himself of what was actually around him and he made his sentence more difficult.

So the question for you today is where are you doing the same thing to yourself with where you live with the job you have or the person you're married to or the so-called punishment you think you're enduring.

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