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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good 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 DailyStoic.com.

Which kind will you be? There are two types of people in this world. The kind whose success makes them better and the kind whose success makes them worse.

Nero and Marcus Arelius began to be groomed for power at roughly the same age. One lusted for the throne, the other cried the day he found out he was selected for it. One murdered his stepbrother, the other elevated his stepbrother to an equal, making him the first co emperor. The other took to his job was seriousness and a sense of responsibility.

One helped other people while the other thought only of himself now certainly this kind of absolute power is inherently corruptive but the truth is that all success affects us. We've worked long and hard for something and then we get it. We started the bottom and suddenly we're on top. We have distinction. We have influence.

We have the means at our disposal. How will we use these things? What will they reveal about us? Will they make us better or worse? That is the question. Time was urgent, unique to each of us. We've talked before about the lyrics to the Laurie McKenna song, the one that effortlessly captures much of the four stoic virtues.

In that song, she explains the proper response to success, the path for being the kind of person that is improved by the gifts of fortune not ruined by them. When the dreams your dreaming come true, she sings when the work you put in is realized. Let yourself feel the pride but always stay humble and kind.

When you get where you're going, turn right back around and help the next one in line, always stay humble and kind. So what kind of person will you be? What will your success reveal today? Tomorrow for the rest of your life, show us whether you're a hero or a hero.

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