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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 DailyStoke.com.

Who you spend time with matters? We'd like to think that we are above being influenced by others. But of course, that's not true. We are shaped by the people we spend time with, in the examples we observe.

Benjamin Hardy has called this the proximity effect, and many years ago, Jim Rohn famously declared that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with.

Turns out that this idea goes back even further, as Senna Karrote, even Socrates and Kato might have been shaken in their moral strength by a crowd that was unlike them.

So true it is that none of us, no matter how much he cultivates his abilities, can withstand the influences of their surroundings. And isn't that the story of Senna Karrote himself, drawn into Nero's court?

Senna Karrote was sapped of his moral strength until he could barely recognize who he had become.

Do not think that you are better than him if Kato or Socrates would be unable to resist the seductions of the mob. If Senna Karrote couldn't maintain his equilibrium, what makes you think you will be any different?

The offer to work for some notoriously bad boss to make a boatload of money in a sketchy industry to serve in some compromised administration, it will not end well. It must be turned down. It is the call of a siren, and it will wreck you.

Associate with those who will make a better man of you, Senna Karrote, and it was a prophetic warning, one that he himself ignored. So we must learn from his example and be better, because who you spend time with matters.

And look, this is one of the reasons we've built out daily stoic life, a members only community of people who are pursuing this calling, this study of stoic philosophy.

I love seeing the posts every day in our Facebook group, people who are volunteering to be accountability partners with each other, people who are putting up thoughts or ideas or opposing problems to solve with each other. It's just been awesome people even now meet in real life.

And not only do you get all that with daily stoic life, you get additional daily stoic emails on Saturday and Sunday, and of course you get access to all the courses and challenges that we've talked about here, including our new year, new U Challenge, which is coming up in January.

So check out dailystoiclife.com. We'd love to have you. And again, who you associate with determines who you're going to be. And so I think it's a good idea to associate with some people who are on the same journey.

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American born businessman George Cohan, the founder of McDonald's Canada, was never satisfied with the status quo. Throughout his career, George was always searching for new ways to innovate and revolutionize the way he did business. At McDonald's, that innovative spirit let him do something truly extraordinary.

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondery show business movers. We tell the true stories of the business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transformed the way we live our lives.

In our latest series, George Cohan gives up his career as a Chicago attorney to open the first McDonald's fast food restaurant in Canada. But as George moves up the McDonald's corporate ladder, a chance meeting with members of the Russian Olympic Committee gives George an opportunity to shake up the status quo once again.

In the midst of the Cold War, George sets out to open the first McDonald's behind the iron curtain. Find out how, follow business movers wherever you get your podcasts, and you can listen ad free on Amazon music or the Wondery app.

What if you were trafficked into a cult over shot nine times or fell in love with a vampire or went into a minor surgery and woke up one week later, paralyzed. What would you do?

I'm with Missaldine, the creator of this is actually happening a podcast from Wondery that brings you extraordinary true stories of life changing events told by the people who lived them from a young man that dunes his entire future with one choice to a woman who survived a notorious serial killer.

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