Stoic Coffee Break

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”― SenecaShow Notes:How often have you stressed over something or worried yourself sick, only to have the scenario you were so worried about never happen?When you worry about something, and you let your imagination run with something, then you suffer many times before you even get to the event that might happen.Unless you can know the future, worrying about something is inventing problems that may never happen.And that kind of suffering is something that we can all probably do without.I’ve talked about this topic on the show before, but I think it’s important to go over these principles many times because we always need a reminder.And the Stoics understood that we as humans have wild imaginations and that we can come with all possible things that can go wrong.And while at times this can be useful with the idea of hoping for the best but preparing for the worst, we need to be sure that when we do imagine the worst that we aren’t wed to the out