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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 conversations are how you learn. In times of clickbait and divisiveness of the filter

bubble and superficiality, one medium of communication has continued to grow exponentially.

Podcasts.

On the one hand, this is a new technology that is the product of a whole suite of other

technologies. Recording equipment, bandwidth, smartphones. They've made the proliferation

of these long-form conversations possible. On the other, a podcast, even more than books,

is the oldest medium there is. It's people talking, not just soundbites, not live over the

air, not to bring you breaking news, not to make something go viral. It's usually a long

conversation. It's a lecture. It's a meandering deep dive, an hour, maybe two, maybe three,

to a long topic of interest to the host. And in a perfect world of millions of listeners,

just as these short form, little episodes are a one shot digestible bit of insight for

you every day. In that sense, listening to a good podcast is not unlike being a fly

on the wall during one of Socrates's chats, or being a part of one of the dialogues Cicero

captured between the Stoics of the Scipionic Circle, or one of the long dinner parties

that Cato or Antipater had, including the discussion that Cato had on the very last night of

his life. What do you think Marcus Aurelius was going to do when he went off to learn that

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