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Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where 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.

You must challenge yourself. After returning from particularly notable campaigns, the commanders

of Roman legions would distribute small coins to their men as rewards for their service

and mementos of their time in those campaigns. These coins were originators of a now ancient

tradition, the challenge coin that continues all the centuries later with generals like

Washington, Grant, and Mattis handing out small, specially designed coins for their men,

the same way that generals like Fabius and CPO did. What is so telling about the power

and purpose of this tradition is that other communities have picked up on it as well.

Twelve step groups hand them out to mark stretches of sobriety. Government agencies give

them to mark service in a presidential administration and so on. We even have challenge coins here

at Daily Stoic to immortalize the most important Stoic concepts, momentumori and more faati,

Patea, the four virtues and more. What binds these disparate groups in their attraction and

connection to the challenge coin is the way that word challenge can be taken and turned and applied

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