This is optimal living daily episode, ten twenty eight practice, the stoic art of negative visualization by Ryan Holiday of Rain holiday, dot net, and I'm just a moloch. You very on personal narrator. I read to you from some of the best blogs in the world and today is no exception. Right holidays, a popular writer who writes frequently about stoicism, actually narrative daily stoic email, meditations. So to hear him, you can check the daily stoic podcast and before we get to a thank you to simple contacts for their support, simple gone x is the most convenient way to renew your contact lens prescription Andrew What are your brain of contacts from anywhere in minutes? This? Isn't a replacement for your periodic full, I health exam, but a super simple way to renew or use your current prescription to order more contacts. Try for yourself Then I'll tell you more about that later and save twenty two

off your first order of contacts at simple contacts: dot com, slash old twenty or enter the code old, twenty check out now excited to read this article, so let's get right to it and continue after my saying your life, practice, the stoic art of negative visualization, by Reinhard, a of Ryan Holiday Don NET. A sea oh calls or staff into the conference room on the eve of the launch of a major new initiative they file in and take their seats around the table. She was a meaning to attention and begins. I have bad news: the project has failed spectacularly. What went wrong? Did he perplexed what we haven't even launched, yet I know seem strain

then maybe even counterproductive to demand that employees think negatively instead of optimistically but in business circles. Today, everyone from start ups to fortune five hundred companies in the Harvard Business Review are doing this exact exercise in a direct response to optimist. Feel good thinking. These leaders are encouraging their employees to think negatively the technique that Theo was using was designed by psychologist Gary Klein. It's called a pre mortem in a pre mortem. A project manager must envision what could go wrong. What will go wrong in advance before starting why far too many ambitious undertakings fail for preventable reasons. Far too many people don't have. Backup plan, because they refuse to consider that something might not go exactly as they wish. In fact, I think more companies need a chief descent officer, someone issue down there and ideas that are blind spots and naive optimism too often obscure. They can catch us when we are puffed up with vigour

of our own greatness and preordained success. Remember never. Does aborted attempt to split into two separate companies or wangle a wave was marketed as the next Gmail only to be shut down a little over a year. If only these Ray companies has stopped to envision the possible derails at awaited them. They might have been able to prevent them. No one has ever So this better than former heavyweight champion MIKE Tyson who, reflecting on the collapse of his fortune and fame, told a reporter if you're, not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you. The practice goes back much further than just psychology, though it dates back many thousands of years, in fact, to the great stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius Epictetus and Seneca, and they had an even better name for it. Premeditated The MILAN premeditation of evils array or, like Santa but began by reviewing or rehearsing his plans say to take a trip, and then his head or in writing. He would go over the things I could go.

Wrong or prevent it from happening. A storm could arise, the captain could fall ill. The ship could be attacked by pirates nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation. He wrote to a friend quote, nor do all day, turn out for him as he wished, but as he reckoned and above all, he reckoned that some they could block is plants and quote. By doing this exercise. Seneca was always prepared for disruption and always working that disruption into his plans. He was fitted for defeat or victory and must be honest. A pleasant surprise is a lot better than an unpleasant one in a case where nothing could be done to stories. Use it as an important practice to do something. The rest of us, too often fail to do manage expectations because sometimes only answer to what it is? It will sock, but will be ok, We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get Rightfully ours, even if we ve earned it not. Everything is as clean as straightforward as the game.

They play in business school psychologically. We must prepare ourselves for this to happen. If it comes as a conscious surprise, each and every time something unexpected hers. You not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big you're gonna have a much harder time, accepting it and moving on to attempts to three and four the only guarantee ever is that things could go wrong doing then we can use to mitigate this is anticipation because a variable, we control completely, is ourselves the world. My call you a pessimist who cares, far better to seem like a downer than to be blindsided or caught off guard. If we prepare ourselves for the obstacles that are inevitably on their way. We can rest assured that its other people who have not, in other words, this bad luck, is actually a chance for us to pick up some time we become like runners who train on hills or at altitude, so they can be racers. Who expected the course would be flat anticipation.

Magically make things easier, of course, but we are more prepared for them to be as hard as they need to be as hard as they actually are you know it's better than building things up in your imagination. Buildings in real life, of course, is a lot more fun to build. Is up in your imagination than it is to tear them down, but what purposes ass her an only the offer. Disappointment cameras are like bandages He heard when torn away with anticipation. We have time to raise defenses or even avoid them entirely were ready to be driven off course believe audit away back, we can resist when the pieces. If things go as planned, with anticipation we can endure, we are prepared for failure and ready for success. You just listen to the post titled practice. The stoic art of negative visuals issued by Rhine Holiday of Ryan Holiday done. That is an interesting one. I've heard that perspective before. If you're

interested in stoicism. You can hear Rhine narrate his daily stoic, meditations email, just search for the daily stoic podcast, tell us into that, and after Oh, you got my contact lens prescription renewed it under five minutes using simple contacts, simple Gandhi. Suzie renew your prescription, an reorder, your favorite brain of lenses from anywhere in minutes there at all Envision test is designed by doctors and every test. Is reviewed by a doctor, so their basically bring the doktor. As to your home as a great weight, They have money and not have to pay for an off his visit. My tried it. I thought it be a little complicated. But is not at all: it takes less than five minutes, it's pretty awesome and you don't even to do the vision, tat. If you have an active prescription, you can send your prescription to them, or even your doctors info in the use that to get your contacts and the contact lens prices,

unbeatable? The vision test is only twenty dollars and shipping is free. On top of that, you get twenty dollars off your first simple contacts order with the promo code old, twenty got a simple contacts. Dot Tk I'm slash all twenty or enter the code, a well de twenty at check up now. This isn't a replacement for your periodic full. I health exam he's tilney those, but as the most convenient way to renew a prescription, an reorder contacts if revision hasn't changed again. That forty dollars off at simple contacts, dot com, slash all twenty or just enter o l de twenty at check out relevant. Therefore They are becoming a great Thursday, getting close to the end of the week and you tomorrow, with opposed from tiny Buddha man where Optimal life awaits