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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 stoke, 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.

Practice everything. Be ready for anything.

You go through your entire pre-speaking routine and then moments before you're scheduled to address the group, there's a last minute change, and you don't go on for another 30 minutes.

You're in the middle of pitching your company to a group of investors and zoom freezes.

You're throwing a no-hitter and as you walk out onto the mound for the ninth inning, lightning strikes, and you have to turn in and head to the locker room to wait out the weather.

We've all had our routines disrupted. We've had our plans dashed. We've been in the zone and then forced out of it.

But this is why the Stokes had their pre-metatoscio-malorum practices.

They wanted to, as Seneca said, practice for any and every possible disruption, be it exile or war or shipwreck or just to travel delay.

A couple of weeks ago, NBC's Sunday Night Football Analyst Tony Dungee himself, a Super Bowl champion, is both a player and a coach, spoke during the 75-minute weather delay between the bills and the chiefs.

He speculated about what the two teams would and should be doing as they waited for play to resume.

And then he said, believe it or not, Danny Green used to practice this. When I worked for him, we had practices where he'd stop it for 25 or 30 minutes and then get started again to see who could adjust and get ready for everything.

The pros prepare. The greats get ready for everything. Martellis Bennett, who told us on the Daily Stoke podcast that the New England Patriots even practiced this before the 2017 Super Bowl actually going through the motions of the longer half time.

So they wouldn't be thrown off by or get cold from the extra 15 or so minutes.

How good are you if you need everything to go perfectly? How greater you if you can't handle change. You must practice everything and be ready for anything.

That's the idea of pre-meditation. We have this really cool pre-meditatio.

Malorum reminder to challenge going in the Daily Stoke store, which of course you can check out at store.dailystoke.com.

The real power you have. There is fleeting power and there is real power.

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