Welcome to the Daily store podcast. Where each day, we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength insight and wisdom everyday life. Each. One of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy, that has guided some of History's Greatest men and women for more. You can visit us a least out.com, do it before it's too
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Into surgery tomorrow and died. After they informed your family. They've 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, the
Pre-med atashi o malorum, a meditation on all the 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 considered the worst so they could perform their best and that's what you have to do. That's what you'd want.
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