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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStood.com.

Practice makes you prepared.

In 2018, the New England Patriots were down 28 to 3 to the Atlanta Falcons in the third quarter of the Super Bowl.

It had not been a good game. Fans had already begun to write the Patriots off. Announcers had serious doubts as to whether to come back was possible, but somehow against all odds.

The Patriots would come back to win that game in one of the greatest victories in all of sports. How was that possible?

When we interviewed Martellis Bennett for the Daily Stood Podcast a few weeks ago, he had one explanation for how his team had managed to pull off such an incredible upset.

New England, he said, was never rattled. They had practiced for so many different scenarios that being down that much didn't crack their self-confidence.

In fact, he said that the team was so prepared for the Super Bowl that they had in the weeks before even practiced for the longer half-time.

They had literally rehearsed what they would do with something as basic as 15 additional minutes waiting between the halves.

It was actually easy to go back on the field and do what they needed to do to win.

The team only had to revert back to their training. To the stoic, this makes perfect sense.

Remember, Senika said that misfortune lands most heavily when it is not expected. The idea of practicing, envisioning, training for all the contingencies of life, of a game, of a trying situation.

This is how we ensure we're able to navigate it correctly. Winning it, that's for amateurs. Pros, the Patriots, they prepare.

We need to follow this example. Pre-Meditashio-Malorum is not about tempting fate. It's about being ready for any fate.

Positive visualization without negative visualization is just dreaming. It's fantasy. Visualization without preparation, without work. It's worthless.

You have to practice. You have to be ready for any of it. For whatever it is that your life may bring or going to be crushed.

You should definitely listen to our interview with Martellis Bennett. If you haven't, you can find it just a scroll back a couple weeks.

You'll see it. Martellis is one of my favorite people. He's a great author as well. You can check out his kids' books. Strongly recommend him.

And I think you'll like our interview.

Hey, it's Ryan. Thank you for listening to the Daily Stoic podcast. I just wanted to say we so appreciate it. We love serving you.

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