Inner command — cheat sheet

The daily protocol (runs every day, all 12 months)

The practices engine (installed this month)

• A. Premeditatio malorum — 2 min pre-case: imagine difficulties, ask what wisdom/courage/justice/temperance look like if they happen.
• B. Dichotomy-of-control checklist — controllable: indication, imaging, strategy, briefing, communication, humility. Not controllable: biology, adhesions, healing, social reaction.
• C. Post-case Stoic review — controlled well? lost temperance? showed courage? judgment incomplete? change next time? must accept?
• D. Memento mori — before clinic/surgery: this patient's life is finite, mine is too, this encounter matters.
• E. Amor fati after setbacks — "this is now part of the material of my life — what can I build from it?"

The month practice — morning Stoic note

1. Each morning before work, read one short passage (Marcus, Epictetus, or Osler).
2. Write one sentence: "Today I will practice ___" (temperance, courage, justice, humility, or presence).
3. File it — daily log or a note under learning-records/.
4. After finishing each text: five-heading formation note (central idea · what it reveals about me · changes at work · changes at home · one maxim).

Sob medida — the two patterns this month owns

• Pattern: fast escalation, fast recovery, expensive language — a hair-trigger on wasted attention that outsizes the event, then fades by morning.
• Counter-move: the 24-hour rule (Seneca on anger) — write it tonight, execute (if at all) tomorrow. Never decide hot.
• Tell: it clusters with fatigue — treat escalation language as a fatigue signal about you, not information about the target.
• Pattern: anxiety metabolized as construction — an uncontrollable outcome (PMF, income, family timing) quietly swapped for a controllable build. Avoidance that photographs like virtue.
• Counter-move: the dichotomy of control, aimed inward — name the uncontrollable thing before building; ask if the build is real work or a decoy.