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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day 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.

What we accept and what we must never accept. There is this pesky idea that the stokes

were apathetic somehow resigned to the status quo politically. It's an idea that's been

propagated in countless modern trend pieces as well as historical attacks on the philosophy.

Like a lot of dismissals from people who are looking for an excuse not to have to engage

or change, it's just preposterously off-base, like laughably so. How can you say that the

stokes just accept the status quo when Kato gave his life trying to restore the Roman

Republic? When Thrasia and Agrippinus gave theirs resisting the tyranny of Nero, when

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson formed a new nation in a stroke, the boldest advances

for liberty and human dignity, yet known on earth, largely inspired by the philosophy of

Kato and those other Stoics. When Thomas went worth Higginson, a translator of Epictetus,

led a black regiment of troops in the US Civil War. When Beatrice Webb, the creator of

collective bargaining in the nascent workers movement, was rereading Marcus Aurelius regularly.

When countless other activists and politicians and change makers have turned to Stoicism

to steal them through the difficulty of fighting for ideals that mattered. Perhaps it's because

people miss that to create real change one can't be naive, nor can one be sanguine or

entitled. Yet they must also deeply believe that an individual can make a difference. Successful

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