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These days you you need double what it takes.

You think Marcus Aurelius wasn't prepared?

Of course he was.

Almost no one received more on-the-job training than he did,

roughly two decades under Antoninus. He had fantastic teachers.

He was trained in stoicism, a philosophy which not only prepared for the worst, but never expected the best. And still, still, life rocked him. His reign was marked by an unending series of troubles. Misfortune after misfortune

befell him, plagues, war, the death of his children, an unfaithful wife. Surely this exhausted his

reserves. Surely this taxed him beyond capacity. And yet, yet still he had to keep going, as we all do.

Sometimes life feels like it's out to get us. It throws every type of adversity at us,

illness, financial troubles, relationship issues, inequality, and injustice. But still, we must keep going.

We can train, we can prepare, we can stock up, we can rehearse in our minds what we need to do.

This will not be enough. Because more will be expected of us still, more will be piled onto our plates.

Enough is not enough. We'll need double, maybe more, especially these days. We'll need to reach

deep down inside us to find some more. We'll need to keep going, even on empty, because it's going to take what

it's going to take. And all we can do is take it or not.

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