Today’s Stoic
“It is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.”
What it means today
The thing we dread is often milder than the dread itself. Fear magnifies the future and hides the fact that we have handled hard things before.
Try this todayName one fear you have been avoiding and write down the worst realistic outcome — then what you would actually do in that case.
Today’s questionAm I afraid of the thing, or of the picture I have drawn of it?