Oh yes, and the need to prepare oneself for a global career.
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being.
But the impulse to prepare oneself for such futures has analogues and origins, it is contended, in old Christian ideas of penance and preparation for the coming Kingdom.
For one thing, they're not even truly necessary: any classic work of literature is easily Googleable, with plots and basic themes easy to glean and prepare oneself for within moments.
"But what I heard again and again was that working at JPMorgan or Bain or Morgan Stanley was the best way to prepare oneself for a future doing public good," she continued.
And, though Truffaut may well have lovingly depicted the cinematic families that he joined and that formed around him, he knew well that to have family is to prepare oneself for loss and grief.
But what I heard again and again was that working at JPMorgan or Bain or Morgan Stanley was the best way to prepare oneself for a future doing public good.
These might seem like minor things compared to the Yes campaign's magnificent vision of sovereign wills and self-determined states, but which tend to be quite important in preparing oneself for the next 300-odd years.
"I'd certainly like to honor the race and race as best I can, but because of the results on the Tour de France, I stopped off on my way to Colorado at home in Australia, which isn't exactly conducive to recovering or preparing oneself for another race," he said.
So while the Stoics advised that one can prepare oneself for death and bereavement by imagining our children and wives as fragile objects, Montaigne insists: "No wisdom is so highly formed as to be able to imagine a cause of grief so vivid and so complete that it will not be increased by the actual presence, when the eyes and ears have a share in it".
One must prepare oneself for an opportunity which means getting the body and mind ready for when it does occur.
