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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.

Remember you are not everything. One of the most haunting moments in all of literature is the moment when King Lear hits rock bottom. He has destroyed his kingdom. He has lost his family. He has lost his sanity.

He says to Gloucester, as they stand on a cliff, they told me I was everything. Tis a lie. I am not edu proof.

In short, all the illusions of the King have been shattered. His ego destroyed. Everything he had worked for was gone and all that was left was the inescapable conclusion that it was his fault.

He had believed the flatters and let power go to his head. Then, after unbelievable folly and meanness, it all came crashing down.

This temptation to believe that we are everything, that we are immune to the constraints or flaws of other people is the source of so much pain and misery in the world.

Pain for the believers and for the bystanders who become its collateral damage. Which is why the Stoics, particularly the ones who found themselves in positions of leadership, spent so much time working on their egos.

Marcus are really actively practiced his philosophy so that he would not be corrupted by his absolute power.

Seneca wrote essays to Nero to try to steer the man away from ego to tell him, you are not everything. You have to stay sane and sober. It didn't always work, but he tried.

Ego is the enemy of what we are trying to accomplish, the people we like to be, of relationships, of kindness, of the objectivity and rational thought that Stoicism prizes.

We must remember this always, even as others puff us up or success accumulates around us. We are not everything, we are ordinary, we are mortal, we are not exempt.

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