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"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
Seneca, Moral Letter 13
💭 Modern Translation
You're dreading a conversation that hasn't happened yet. But you've already lived it twenty times today, and it went badly every time. Seneca's point: imagination charges interest on fears reality never collects.
⚡️ Your Move
Name the thing you're dreading this week. Then do the smallest piece of it today. Reality is almost always cheaper than the rehearsal.
🤔 Today's Question
Which fear have you already paid for more than once?
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