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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength insight in wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

Take the interior voyage. Have you ever noticed that we often refer to Marcus Arelius just as Marcus? You'll likely read those references without breaking this stride because you like us feel connected to this man so much so that there's a vivid picture of him painted in your head.

So much so that you could describe Marcus more thoroughly than you might be able to describe a coworker or clients or friends even isn't it incredible to feel like you're on a first name basis with a Roman emperor who lived more than 2000 years ago.

Why is this? How can we possibly feel we know someone who lived and died so long ago more than we know those we physically interact with. It's because of how well he knew himself and that familiarity comes through when you read meditations.

If you have a journaling practice, you know doubt would agree that the contents of your journals are a fuller more thorough reflection of you than you.

It's truly a bizarre thing you learn about yourself when you write in them or read old entries you discover what you believe you recognize patterns in your thinking you gain clarity on things you care about.

The author Christina Baldwin once described journal writing as a voyage to the interior beautiful Marcus took that voyage and now we benefit from it now we learn from it and now the question is whether you are journaling and taking that voyage inside yourself to the far reaches of your own interior.

Because if you aren't journaling if you aren't taking the interior voyage if you aren't exploring who you are and what you believe how is anyone even you supposed to discover who you are and what you believe the people you respect and admire the people who seem to be so self aware so in touch with themselves.

The chances that they keep a journaling practice is nearly a guarantee not only because the list of known journalists throughout history is comically long from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thoreau Virginia Wolf Joan Didian John Steinbach Sylvia Plath and these NIN, Martina Navitarova and Ben Franklin just in a few.

But because it's impossible to become wise without taking that interior voyage that's what the grades realized that's why they journaled it wasn't to be immortalized in history it wasn't to produce Nobel Prize worthy pros it wasn't so other people might learn who they are no it was so they themselves might learn who they are so what are you waiting for take the interior voyage.

If you're looking for a place to start with a journal obviously I'm a little biased but I would check out the daily stoke journal it's a journal I use every morning there's a prompt each day based on the entry in the daily stoke but you could just as easily apply the prompt to the podcast you're listening to right now so I sit down and I reflect and then in the evenings I try to take some time to reflect on how I did with the ideas that I was reflecting on in the morning so you can check out the daily stoke journal anywhere journals are sold for really what's important to me is that you just start journaling.

So pick up anything doing on your phone don't care but start journaling it matters.

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