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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 DailyStoke.com.

This is what you've been working for. A quarterback can spend thousands of hours in the gym watching film and working on their throwing accuracy, but ultimately what matters is what they do on Sunday.

What matters is what they do in the fourth quarter. Surgeons can study pre-med, go to med school, spend years in residency, and read every scientific journal ever published.

But ultimately what matters is whether they can perform in the operating room. A musician can practice chords, study the grades, work with the best instructor, master every scale.

But ultimately what matters is how they move the audience. Epic Titus's teacher, Musoneus Rufus, talked about how philosophy was like any profession.

You can pour hours into mastering the precepts and acquiring the theoretical knowledge. But the mark of a great philosopher is how they perform when hardship comes.

Are they courageous in facing the things which seem dreadful to the average person? Are they temperate amid circumstances that trigger most? Are they just when others are greedy and selfish? Are they wise in their actions or just in their speech?

You've been reading this email for years. You've memorized most of meditations. You've journaled every morning. You've learned the stories of Zeno, Shipwreck, and Kato's suicide.

You've mastered the precepts. You have the theoretical knowledge. You studied the grades. And now it's game time. This is not a drill. You're in the operating room. You're on stage.

Which hardship is here? Will you be up to it? A pandemic is a moment like all moments where each and every one of the four stoic virtues is called for. You can't panic. You can't be afraid. You can't hoard supplies or binge watch TV. You must care for others. You must support the frontline responders. You must learn from what's happening. Apply what you have already learned.

Virtue is not simply theoretical knowledge. Musonea said, a man who wishes to become good must also be earnest and zealous in applying these principles. Well, you've put the hours in. Now is your chance to make your mark. Show us, Virtue. Show us a great philosopher.

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