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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

We've talked about this a bunch one of the

Downsides of the pandemic as you can't really go shopping. You shouldn't be poking your heads into store

There is nothing beneath the philosopher we get it you've worked hard

You're a good person you respect yourself. That's why you're so frustrated to be in this job beneath your talents

It's why you don't like that your ideas aren't getting there do it's why you hate wasting your time on on this low level crap

Noted nobody wants to be sweeping floors. Nobody likes untangling other people's messes

Nobody should be laughed at or dismissed or underappreciated

But the fact of the matter is that this is a part of life fair or unfair

There is a story about Musonius Rufus who was sent into exile by Nero and supposedly subjected to degrading manual labor

A friend came across him far from home swinging a pickaxe on a chain gang

Seeing that his friend was appalled Musonius reassured him. Does it pain you?

He said if I dig the isthmus for the sake of Greece

What would you have felt if you had seen me playing music like Nero instead?

Musonius was like Ulysses S grant who responded to a similarly disappointed friend who couldn't understand why this West Point grad was selling firewood by the side of the road

I am solving the problem of poverty grant replied

Meaning a stoic does what they have to do they play the hand they were dealt even if it's beneath them or

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