The Stoics and the Importance of Reminders

A lot of people think that stoicism because they read these exercises and they hear it's like, oh, you should think about the worst thing that should happen. And they think that it's depressing, right? And that these must have been just really downer people. But what the Stoics believe was nobody needs help; we need reminders so we don't get too exuberant in either direction or too extreme. These were reminders to sort of center themselves.