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Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrative 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 if this made you stronger?

It would be wonderful if it weren't true

But it is anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way the philosopher and Nobel Prize

When our Albert Schweitzer one said

But they must accept their lot calmly if they even roll a few more stones upon it

Not only did people have to march for civil rights

They had to fend off attack dogs and mobs and policemen's batons great works of art

Not only struggled to find publishers or galleries

But they were actively discouraged by the supposed experts and critics sure successful entrepreneurs are

Handsomely rewarded for their success, but think of all the endless headaches

They had to endure to get there doubters regulations ungrateful customers bad luck right now

People in the private and public sector are struggling to produce a life-saving vaccine and encountering all this and more

To truly make it in this life. It's not just enough to endure these difficulties

It requires something deeper something more profound

Schweitzer said we need to cultivate a strength which becomes clearer and stronger through the experience of such obstacles

And that this is the only strength that can conquer the difficulties of life

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