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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

This is how to become wise

Sure, we know that a stoic is supposed to read

But as epic to the set it matters what and how you read and

And as Sena said it matters what you are reading for are you studying the Odyssey because it's entertaining because you're trying to impress people

Or you trying to learn from Odysseus?

Sena asked to prepare yourself for the same kind of storms that he faced

It's fitting that a scene in Stephen Presfield's novel gates of fire would use a young storyteller

Making the same point in a Sena

We were made to recite the tent scene at the close of the Iliad

Presfield has the young squire turned warrior explain when preem of Troy kneels before Achilles to kiss in

Supplication the hand of the man who has slain his sons

Including the mightiest endures to him Hector hero and protector of Iliam

And then he would grill us upon it

What would we have done if we were Achilles if where we preem was each man's action proper and pious in the eyes of the gods

Reading isn't just about pouring inputs into your brain. There has to be a filter

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