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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 every day 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.

These are the people watching out for you. One of the most inspiring themes in the history

of stoicism is how the stoics put it all on the line for someone or something else. There

was Cato refusing to roll over and just let Caesar destroy the Republic. There was Marcus

Arelius who stayed in Rome as the plague ravaged, serving with great dedication to the cost

of his personal health. There was Thrasia's obstinate resistance to Neurotrany. There

was Helvides speaking out directly against Vespasian, even after Vespasian threatened his life.

There was James Stockdale in that prison camp in Vietnam, suffering great pain and

anguish to bring an end to the torture that his fellow POWs endured.

Perhaps Senaika was contemplating his own heroic end when he wrote admiringly of those who

rank virtue ahead of personal safety. We should cherish the body with the greatest care

he writes, but we should also be prepared when reason, self-respect, and duty demand the

sacrifice to deliver it even to the flames.

Encourages calling I write about two Marines working a guard post in Ramadi in 2008 when

a truck bomber raced towards the small base they protected. Two corporals stepped forward

in Unison and began to fire 2,000 pounds of explosives went off as they unloaded their

weapons into the accelerating truck. Just six seconds elapsed between the truck's appearance

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