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Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrator

The 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

What have you managed to get done? It's been a strange few months having it our days have been disrupted our lifestyles changed

Plants have been put on pause whole projects made impossible in one sense

This pandemic has been totally unprecedented, but in another sense isn't it all too common?

We find ourselves laid up with a broken leg

We have to spend two months away from home cleaning up a mess in the West Coast office

We get posted overseas with little notice we get laid off we get exiled as Seneca did or we find ourselves locked up as

Stockdale did stuff happens and we find ourselves in some strange or unexpected situation

The question as always according to the stoics is what will we make of this time?

What will we manage to accomplish within the constraints and the reality of where we find ourselves?

Here is biographer Andrew Roberts who I interviewed on the Daily Stoke podcast recently

Here is his summary of the time Napoleon spent in exile after his first defeat

Roberts writes during his nearly 10 months on Elba

He reorganized his new kingdoms defenses gave money to the poorest of its 11,400 inhabitants

installed a fountain on the roadside which still produces cold clean drinking water

Red voraciously leaving a library of 1100 volumes played with his pet monkey

Walked the coastline along the goat paths while humming Italian arias

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