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Just Start Journaling

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Education, Stoicism, Stoic, Ryan Holiday, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Business, Daily Stoic, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, 694393

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In today's audiobook excerpt, Ryan cracks open his best-selling book Stillness Is The Key to read the chapter titled “Just Start Journaling,” which covers why you should start your journaling practice.

📔 Visit the Painted Porch to order a copy of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:12.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

0:21.0

audio books that you like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

0:32.0

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

0:40.0

Thank you for listening.

0:52.0

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Here on Sunday, a chapter from Stillness is the key about journaling and why journaling is such an important habit.

1:12.0

It goes to the core of what still is a miss. Of course, we wouldn't have meditations without the practice of journaling.

1:20.0

We wouldn't have so many great works of art, so many insights, so many inventions without the solitary time that people put in to the practice of journaling.

1:35.0

It's a little more of a thing, but I was to my kids in the supermarket today and as we were checking out, they had these magazines.

1:41.0

I guess no one really buys magazines anymore, so there's all these special one-off editions.

1:46.0

But there was an Anne Frank like a magazine, an issue dedicated to Anne Frank who is a character in Stillness is the key,

1:58.0

who I read a lot about as I was writing the book and someone who's profoundly brave and wise beyond their years person.

2:12.0

But what struck me is that this girl whose life was so tragically cut short by one of the worst things that human beings have ever done to each other, a victim of incredible injustice, why is there this magazine to her?

2:27.0

She'd be like in her, she and Martin Luther King were born almost the same year, so she'd be quite old but still alive today.

2:40.0

Quite reasonably potentially, she very well could be alive today, but she's not, she's been dead for a very long time, and why has she had the impact that she's had?

2:50.0

It's not because she was a victim, that was a thing that happened to her, but what she affected, who she was, what she did, was all in the pages of this little journal.

3:02.0

And I tell that story in Stillness is the key, which this episode is excerpting, so you can listen to that and it's actually a really moving biography of Anne Frank that we carry in the painted porch all into that and today's show notes.

3:15.0

And of course you can get Stillness is the key anywhere books are sold.

3:20.0

Hiring the right people for your business is one of the most important things you can do. It's also one of the hardest things that you can do indeed knows that when you're growing your own business, you have to make every pound count.

3:33.0

And that's why with indeed you only pay for applications that meet your must have requirements.

3:38.0

Indeed's UK data shows that over 85% of employers using indeed find quality candidates who CVs on indeed match their job descriptions.

3:48.0

The very moment they post a job.

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