You’re no longer a child but a full-grown person, and yet you procrastinate, Epictetus reminds himself. “You will not notice that you are making no progress but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.” From now on, he warns himself, and all of us, to live like a mature human being and never set aside what you think is best to do. And whenever you encounter anything difficult, remember that the contest is now, you are at the Olympics, you cannot wait any longer. We don’t have the luxury of postponing our training, because unlike the Olympic Games, the contest we participate in every
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