The Daily Stoic - You Must Run War Games

Episode Date: August 10, 2020

"In Rome, as today, things went wrong all the time. Wars broke out. Earthquakes struck. Pandemics infected populations. In Rome, as in our time, people were constantly caught off guard by these things."Learn the exercise that the Stoics performed to prepare for disaster in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. You must run war games. In Rome, as in our time, things went wrong. Wars broke out. Earthquakes struck pandemics, infected populations. In Rome, as in our time people were constantly

caught off guard by these things. Seneca writes about a fire that broke out and destroyed the city of lions. Even in learning this, the people of Rome were not prepared when a fire broke out and destroyed their city. If only they had listened to Seneca. He'd been saying it since the first time he was exiled, pre-meditashio-malorum, nothing ought to be unexpected by us. Our mind should be set forward in advance to meet all problems, and we should consider not what is won't to happen,

but what can happen. What about today, when COVID-19 has made quick work of businesses, government agencies, and supply chains, was anyone able to withstand the onslaught of economic and health issues. Yes, it turns out there was in Texas there was a cheap the grocery chain that has been actually expanding services and letting customers know that they don't need to stockpile because there are plenty more supplies coming.

There is also AT&T which despite record record broadband usage is able handling the surges. How? Because they prepared for this. They wargamed for precisely this scenario. As a recent Atlantic story reported, AT&T rehearsed for disaster. Last May, the company ran an internal wargame on how a pandemic would affect its ability to keep phone and internet service running. The company does these exercises routinely to try to get ready to build teams of people and their reflexes and also able to understand what they will need on the ground. Seneca said that we should be routinely peering ahead, planning for the unexpected running

those war games. Like lions burning to ashes or global stay at home orders, it's hard to fathom some things happening. But that's precisely why we have to be ready. You have to put yourself in the position that Epictetus said we must be in. The one that lets you greet adversity with the expression, you are precisely what I trained for. And that begins with pre-meditashio, malorum. It's been almost four years since the Daily Stoic was published. This little book, the first collection of all the Stoics in one book in centuries, has sold nearly one million copies

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