The Daily Stoic - Do It Before It’s Too Late

Episode Date: January 28, 2022

Ryan talks about the importance of being prepared for the worst.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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histories, greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoweth.com. Do it before it's too late. If you went into surgery tomorrow and died, after they informed your family, they'd cart your body down to the morgue of the hospital to do an autopsy. Then the doctors would convene a post-mortem panel and discuss how this happened and how they could learn from it. Never again the surgeon might say to themselves, I won't ever make that mistake again, which would all be very well and good for everyone, but you. Of course, far preferable to a post-mortem

would be a pre-mortem. Seneca called this this the pre-Meditatio-Malorum, a meditation on all that could go wrong, before it went wrong. Exile war, torture, shipwreck, he said, all this should be before our minds. The only inexcusable thing for a leader to say, he said, was that I did not think that could happen. Our job, whether we're surgeons or sailors,

driving our kids to school or driving in the Indy 500, is to be prepared for the things that life can throw at us. It's to think in advance about the potential problems and have solutions for them. It's to be adaptable, to have grace under pressure, to not shy away from unpleasant possibilities just because we'd prefer to visualize everything going well.

The Stoics consider the worst so they could perform their best, and that's what you have to do. That's what you'd want someone working on or for you to do. Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Stoke Podcast. Again, if you don't know this, you can get these delivered to you via email every day. So check it out at dailystoke.com slash email. Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke early and ad free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts.

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