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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 stoke, 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 predicts everything.

Who a person is determines what will happen and what they can do. It's true in sports, it's true in politics, it's true in business, no matter how talented a person is, how great the incentives, how great the system is.

Around them in the end character is everything. It can't be hidden, it can't be compensated for, it comes out.

Your job as a parent, as you seek to create a better world for your kids and raise them to be good in the world, is to value character, to teach it to them, to model it for them, to reward it when you see it in them.

Yes, you want them to be smart, yes, you want them to be ambitious, yes, you want them to be creative and hardworking, but these traits are worthless if not yoked, behind good character.

We are seeing the cost of ignoring that in every facet of life right now. We need to fix it, and the fix starts at home.

Hey, I'm Cassie Depeckel, the host of Wunderies Against the Odds. In our next season, Amelia Earhart wants to make history by flying across the Atlantic alone, but brutal weather and malfunctioning equipment could leave her lost its sea.

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Show, don't tell.

This is this week's entry in the Daily Stoke Journal, 366 days of writing and reflection on the art of living.

The art of living isn't a set of teachings or a formula we can memorize. It's a practice that requires constant work.

Epic Titus was constantly reminding his students not to pair it back with they learned in the lecture hall or read in books, but to put that work into practice.

He knew that progress you could see was better than any proclaimed. Let your journaling and thinking this week exhibit what you have done and what you are doing, not what you plan to do or think you are. Let it be a catalog of your actions, good actions.

As Epic Titus says, those who receive the bear theories immediately want to spew them as an upset stomach does with its food. First, digest your theories and you won't throw up.

Otherwise, they will be raw, spoiled and not nourishing. After you've digested them, show us the changes in your reasoned choices like the shoulders of gymnasts who display their diet and training and the craft of artisans show what they have learned.

That's Epic Titus's discourse is 321.

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