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A MEDITATION

“ If you accomplish something difficult when you have a strong impulse to act, you will give yourself pleasure which you cannot easily take away.

— Musonius Rufus

Lectures 6

On adversity

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A reflection

The satisfaction of doing a hard thing when you had momentum is non-transferable. It becomes a story you tell yourself on worse days. Build a reservoir of these wins; they'll carry you through the droughts.

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