and it is to ask yourself "what if?"...what if things don't go as planned? And if things do go pear-shaped you're in a better position to deal with the situation because you're prepared.
An example.
Just fired off a missive to an Aus politician who is considered to be very Conservative. I expect a sympathetic response. But...people are an unknown quantity. This dude could be offended by what I'm suggesting. So...now I've addressed that possibility I'm prepared for it and won't burst into tears! You with me?
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?” It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while Fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence. In days of peace the soldier performs maneuvers, throws up earthworks with no enemy in sight, and wearies himself by gratuitous toil, in order that he may be equal to unavoidable toil. If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.
Yes, Seneca (whoever he/she is) put it a little more eloquently.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature [Library Service]
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-Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature [Library Service]
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