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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're happy to be doing.

So let's get into it.

You must play it like a game.

Life may have big challenges in store for us.

What's more certain though, as we talked about recently, is the petty hazards of the day.

We may find ourselves thrust in some crisis of big political moment or some emergency that unfolds in front of us on the street.

We will definitely experience traffic and obnoxious people and temptation and burnout.

It's important that we understand that whether the moment is bigger or small,

a Stoke is supposed to respond the same way that is to say calmly,

courageously with the common good in mind.

In the email we mentioned earlier, we drew on the work of the novelist, Jean Webster,

who remarked that it may well have been easier to respond to crisis or tragedy than it is to respond to the ordinary or the mundane.

Because we know what's expected of us, because people are watching, because we understand the stakes.

But again, Stoicism isn't just about being great in the big moments,

but also great in the little moments.

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