9/30/2018 Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You https://jamesclear.com/inversion 1/11 JAMES CLEAR Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You by James Clear (staging.jamesclear.com/about)????| ???? Mental Models (https://jamesclear.com/mental-models) The ancient Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius (https://jamesclear.com/marcus-aurelius), Seneca, and Epictetus regularly conducted an exercise known as?a premeditatio malorum, which translates to a ?premeditation of evils.? The goal of this exercise was to envision the negative things that could happen in life. For example, the Stoics would imagine what it would be like to lose their job and become homeless or to suffer an injury and become paralyzed or to have their