Today’s Stoic
Do not imagine things are worse than they are; look at them as they are.
What it means today
The imagination is a dramatist; it inflates. The antidote is simple attention: look at the thing plainly, without the added story, and it shrinks back to its true size.
Try this todayTake one thing you are dreading and describe it plainly, without adjectives.
Today’s questionWhat am I imagining to be worse than it actually is?