Stoic Morning Rehearsal For A High-Stakes Day

A short guided Stoic practice designed for the morning of a presentation, interview, or high-stakes event. Jon Brooks leads listeners through premeditatio malorum, visualizing one realistic setback, then applies Epictetus’s dichotomy of control to separate internal effort from external outcomes. The practice incorporates Cicero’s archer image to reinforce the principle of focusing on aim rather than result. It concludes with a takeaway sentence to carry into the event: ‘I have prepared. I will do my part. The rest is not mine.’