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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 stoic 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

Nobody gets out alive this life thing. It's wonderful

We are sentient beings the apex predators at the top of the food chain

We have brilliant technology incredible pleasures as well as talents and skills that bring us joy and success

And guess what we're still going to die each and every one of us

That's the thing about life as wonderful as it is none of us get out of life alive

We were born mortal born fragile

We've had a terminal diagnosis since birth

They shouldn't detract from our sense of wonder or appreciation. It doesn't render everything pointless

Look at Senika. He wrote often on the inevitability of death. He wrote and yet he wrote that's the point

He published books. He cared about each and every word in them

He wanted them to find large audiences. He celebrated his successes

Marcus Aurelius was constantly meditating on those words

Memento Mori and still he raised his family. He sat at the head of an enormous empire

Which he struggled and strove to maintain and protect

He also laughed and loved and hunted and read and went to the theater

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