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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics.

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down. Be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode, the Daily Stoic podcast.

We've obviously talked a lot about journaling here on the podcast on our Monday episode. We take an excerpt from the Daily Stoic journal. We've talked about journaling before, but what I wanted to give you guys today was some real journaling tips and practices lessons I've taken from Marcus Aurelius from the meditations and from the Stoics in general that have sort of helped me design my journaling process as I talk about instill.

The list of people who regularly journaled or have journaled in their lives is like comically long and preposterously diverse.

There's a reason this habit is so prevalent in successful, talented, wise, accomplished people. It's because it calms the monkey mind to use Tim Ferriss's phrase.

It's spiritual windshield wipers to use Julia Cameron's phase and it fits epictetus's dictum, which is every day and night keep thoughts like these at hand, write them, read them aloud, talk to yourself and others about them.

That's really what the Stoics were doing with their journaling, sort of the interplay, the dialogue with the philosophy. That's what this is about.

And so today I give you seven strategies from the great Marcus Aurelius that will help you journal like a pro.

In the year 170 at night in his tent on the front lines of the war in Germania, Marcus Aurelius the Emperor of Rome sat down to write.

Perhaps it was before dawn at his palace in the city or perhaps he stole a few seconds to himself during the games, ignoring the carnage on the floor of the Colosseum below.

The exact location is not important. What matters is that this man known today is the last of the five good emperors sat down with the journal to write.

Not to an audience or for publication, but to himself, for himself. Then as a now people wondered, how did Marcus Aurelius become Marcus Aurelius?

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