The Daily Stoic - Why You Should Never Borrow Unhappiness

Episode Date: May 21, 2021

“Some time around the year 64 AD, Seneca’s friend Lucilius sent him a letter. Lucilius was nervous about an ongoing lawsuit. We’re not sure what the suit was over, but we know that it was a serious case and that Lucilius had made himself anxious about the outcome and had written to Seneca for some advice.”Ryan explains why you should always be prepared for what could go wrong, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowup.com. Why you should never borrow unhappiness. Sometime around the year 64 AD, Seneca's friends Lucilius sent him a letter.

Lucilius was nervous about an ongoing lawsuit. We're not sure what the suit was over, but we know that it was a serious case and that Lucilius made himself anxious about the outcome and had written to Senaq for some advice. What did he say? He said, why are you borrowing unhappiness? Why would you be miserable now

just because you might be in the future? Basically, Senaq had told him what will will happen will happen, so stop being anxious. And while this might sound like a strange thing to hear from Seneca, the creator of the pre-metatoshio-malorum exercise that we have talked about here so often, it's strange are still considering that in the very same letter, Seneca tells Lucilius, let us think of everything that can happen as something which will happen. How does that work?

Isn't that contradictory advice? Nope. The point of pre-metitatio-malorum negative visualization is not to make you worry. It's to eliminate worry. By being aware of all the possibilities that lay before us, we can now proceed with our preparations. Who has time for anxiety?

We should be fortifying ourselves for what may come. Why waste time preferring one outcome to another? We are ready for all of them equally. But what if the worst case scenario happens? Okay, that won't be fun, so let's enjoy the present moment while we still can. Pre-Meditashio-Malorum, whether you carry it in your pocket in the form of Armadalion, or you just run through it before embarking on a project or a journey or a long

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