Anti-goals and anticipating the worst
- Anti-goals stem from the concept of inversion or ‘premeditatio malorum’ used by the stoics.
- Premeditatio malorum was used to envision worst case scenarios: anticipating situations of complete failure helps us to prepare mentally and also to see what we can do to avoid failure.
- Anti-goals give us a benchmark of failure to avoid and allow us to anticipate ourselves at our worst.
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