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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're happy to be doing.

So let's get into it.

What will you choose?

All of our upbringings were different.

Some were given two parents.

Others only one.

Maybe it took a village to raise you.

Either way, we didn't get to decide who our mom was or who our dad was if they got divorced,

if they were present, if our step parents were blessing or a nightmare.

It was all outside of our control.

Yet every one of us, as Seneca says, gets to choose whose children we will be.

In ancient Rome, this was even more true than it sounds because it was common for people

to be adopted into families.

And his brother, for instance, was adopted by a man named Gio, whose name he eventually

took.

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