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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 dailystoke.com.

Just shrug it off, part two.

A pictorist tells us the story of a stoic philosopher named Agrippinus, who during Nero's reign was delivered some awful news one morning. He was exiled.

Effective immediately. Agrippinus's response, very well, we shall take our lunch. In Aresia, meaning we might as well get this show on the road. No use bemoaning or weeping about it. Hey, is anyone else hungry?

That's how a stoic response. They shrug off even the worst news. They have humor about it. They focus on what they can control and they let go of everything else outside of it.

Like Agrippinus, like Walker Percy did, like you can do if you put in the work. If you practice, if you rehearse, if you steal yourself for the fact that life will inevitably deliver these moments to us.

Being exiled, finding out that you got fired, hearing that your computer just deleted a year of hard work, being informed that you just lost the election, none of that is fun. It's often unfair. You can let it crush you.

You can fall to your knees and tear out your hair. We can shrug it off. You can start thinking about lunch. It's your call.

You know, I always ask people what would getting rid of one bad habit be worth or what would adding one new positive habit be worth?

What would you give to be the person you know you're capable of being? Well, that's why for this new year we've made a daily stoic, new year, new you challenge that's going to help you do just that.

21 custom challenges delivered each morning. There's a video for me. There's a printable 21 day calendar. There's a group Slack channel. It's going to be awesome. I'm doing the challenge alongside everyone this year. We can do it together. We can talk together. We can make ourselves be better.

You can check it out at dailystoic.com slash challenge.

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