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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday 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.

Prepare yourself to answer the call. At some point, you're going to get it. Perhaps

you'll hold elected office. Perhaps you'll witness something unethical at work. Perhaps

you'll be a scientist pursuing a controversial or unorthodox idea. Perhaps you'll have

a dream for a new business. Perhaps you'll be an athlete considering a political stand

that will jeopardize your career, your endorsements. The exact circumstances don't matter. What matters

is that one day you're going to get the call for courage. To each Winston Churchill would

say, there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped

on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing unique to them and

fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified

for that which could have been their finest hour. In actuality life offers many of these

moments and you will get many such taps on the shoulder. Maybe you will get the tap

to serve to take a risk to challenge the status quo to run towards danger while others run

away to rise above your station to do a thing that people tell you is impossible. And the

question is whether you will feel these taps when they come or will you mistake them

for any number of the many reasons you have to think that what is being asked of you

is the wrong thing to do. Will you be pressured to put your dreams out of your mind? Will

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