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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 happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

You can never do this twice. The first time was revelatory. The first time you watched mad men or the Godfather or cracked open markets

to really use his meditations or heard Tom Petty's free falling or listen to fantane saying, I dreamed a dream from Les Mizz or stood in front of a Carvaceo painting.

It hit you with all the power that new and brilliant art has. It shook you. It opened up something in you. It taught you something.

But in some way the power of these moments is actually overrated or at least overstated. It's powerful because it's new and immediate or new to you.

But what's actually more transformative is what happens when you return to those works of art.

Lingering, Asenica said, on the words of the master thinkers. The Stelox were fond of Heraclitus's idea that we can never step in the same river twice

because the river is in a constant state of movement and change.

But with art or literature or music or film, it's a little different. The work is the same. It's you who is different.

This notion of rewatching is a misnomer because you're re-introspecting.

Christel and Tonyo Russell recently said in a New York Times article about the burst of popularity of certain TV shows many years after they came out.

The generation who watched HBO's girls in their 20s, for example, is now in their 30s and they have a very different understanding of themselves as well as that time in their lives.

We can never watch the same show twice. We can never listen to the same song twice. We can never get the same piece of advice twice

because our experiences, our tastes, our understanding of the world has changed.

But those second and third and fourth encounters, those re-interspectings are actually where the real insights and breakthroughs can come from.

That's when we really get it. That's when we might really come to get ourselves in the process.

For instance, some of you might be on year four or five of the Daily Stoic or in some cases, I guess six or seven, I'm on read what?

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