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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 DailyStoic.com.

You must win the morning. One of the most relatable moments in Marcus Aurelius' meditations is the argument Marcus has with himself in the opening of Book 5.

It's clearly an argument he had with himself many times on many mornings, as many of us had. He knows he has to get out of bed, but so desperately wants to remain under the warm covers.

It's relatable, but it's also impressive. Marcus didn't actually have to get out of bed. He didn't really have to do anything.

One of his predecessors, Tiberius, basically abandoned the throne for an exotic island.

Marcus Aurelius' adopted great grandfather, Hadrian, hardly spent any time in Rome at all. The emperor had all sorts of prerogatives, and here Marcus was insistent that he rise early and get to work.

Why? Because Marcus knew that winning the morning was key to winning the day and winning it life. He hadn't heard the expression yet that the early bird gets the worm, but he was well aware that a day well begun was half done.

By pushing himself to do something uncomfortable and tough, by insistent on doing what he said he knew he was born to do and what he loved to do, Marcus was beginning a process which would lead to a successful day.

It's one that we should have to follow today and every day. We should get up early. We should not delay. We should get the nutrients we need. We should practice good habits.

We should go right into whatever the biggest or most important task of the day is. We want to win the morning so that the rest of the day, so much of which will be out of our control has less power over us.

Well begun is half one, so get started.

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From Wondery comes a new series flipping the bird Elon versus Twitter a story about what happens when the richest man on the planet decides to acquire a powerful social media company in the name of free speech, but does he have what it takes?

It started off promising.

Or is this all just about Elon?

He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he would expect to have to.

But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs.

And what will be left of Twitter by the time he's done?

Basically my entire team was gone by the end of it. Infrastructure was just completely gutted. He'll like tweet a thing and then everyone's like, we got a word on that now because he tweeted it.

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