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The Stoic Art of Journaling

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Epictetus the former slave. Marcus Aurelius the emperor. Seneca the statesman and playwright. These three radically different men led radically different lives, but they seemed to have one habit in common: journaling. In one form or another, each of them did it. It was Epictetus who would admonish his students that philosophy was something they should “write down day by day,” and that this writing was how they “should exercise themselves.

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