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The Stoic practice of pre-rehearsing potential misfortunes (literally 'pre-meditation of evils'). Seneca recommended this practice: by briefly imagining discomfort or loss, you inoculate yourself against fear of future hardship and deepen gratitude for the present. • Remembering death can return life to itself. • Your task is not elsewhere. • The first words of the text

As the Stoic philosophers — particularly Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations and Seneca in his Letters — wrote, The Stoic practice of pre-rehearsing potential misfortunes (literally 'pre-meditation of evils').

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