Ryan Holiday: The Daily Stoic
Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits
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The Worst Case Scenario, Me Prepared for It to Happen
The idea of pre-meditatio molarum is negative visualization. Instead of imagining everything going exactly how you want it to go, what can go wrong? How can you be prepared for it? Marcus Aurelius talks about starting the day and thinking about all the frustrating, annoying, selfish, rude, stupid people he's going to meet. And then he knows when he meets them that that's who he's meeting. He's not surprised by this. He's prepared for it. So you prepare yourself in advance for what's going to happen today, this week, this month. You're able to prepare for success as well. But you want to know what can happen.
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