Do It Before Its Too Late

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.

The stoics considered 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.

The only inexcusable thing for a leader to say, [Seneca] said, 'was that I did not think that could happen.'