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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 stoic 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 must be willing to stand alone

It's hard to read about Kato's life and not be struck

About how often the man stood alone

He stood alone in his efforts to reform Rome's treasury the sole voice in opposition to spending money the empire didn't have

He stood alone when he refused to buy elections

He stood alone and how he dressed he stood alone when he fell a buster against bad laws

And as Sena would write Kato stood alone against the vices of a degenerate state that was sinking to destruction beneath

It's very weight

And he stayed the fall the Republic to the utmost that one man's hand could do to draw it back

But of course we can't all be Kato's as the saying goes most of us are more like Harry T. Byrne

whose story I detail encourages Colin

In August 1920 Byrne was just an ordinary 25 year old politician in the Tennessee State Assembly

Harry was not a crusader

He had no history of bold stands or brave votes

My vote will never hurt you

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