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Recover from a professional setback — a failed launch, brutal feedback, a public mistake, a lost deal, a layoff — using the actual exercises from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: the control sort, the evening review, and turning the obstacle into the task. Use when someone says 'today went badly', 'I blew it', 'the launch failed', 'I got torn apart in that meeting', or before replying to something that stung. Produces a structured debrief that separates what happened from the story, and ends in one next action.

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# Stoic Setback Debrief Skill

Meditations was never a book — it was a working notebook of a man with an
overwhelming job talking himself back to steadiness, entry by entry. That makes it
the right tool for the bad professional day: not consolation, but a repeatable
procedure. This skill runs the notebook's actual exercises on a specific setback,
in order, and refuses to end without a next action. It is a debrief, not therapy —
and it says so when therapy is what's actually needed.

## What This Skill Produces

- A **facts vs. story split**: what verifiably happened, separated from the
  narrative currently running
- A **control sort** of every element of the situation (yours / partly yours /
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