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There’s that cliched bit of advice: Do one thing each day that scares you.
The Stoics might say to do one thing each day that you’d rather not do. Seneca regularly took cold plunges and intermittently fasted. When Marcus discovered philosophy, he made a habit of sleeping on the floor. Cato made his walks around Rome barefoot in the warmer months and bareheaded in the colder months. Epictetus exercised or lifted weights.
“The body should be treated more rigorously,” Seneca wrote, “that it may not be disobedient to the mind.” How can you expect yourself to step out of your comfort zone when the stakes are high if you aren’t regularly doing so when the stakes are low?
Then, when it counts, we’ll know what to do. The brave thing. The right thing. The thing we’d rather not do but know we have to do.
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