THE DAILY STOIC JOURNAL: 366 DAYS OF WRITING AND REFLECTION ON THE ART OF LIVING

This is a great product,especially if you are new in stoicism,it gives you daily prompts which force you to think deeply about your life and how you can improve it,a really good way to journal.

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I’ve decided to rewrite this since other reviews have covered the layout and structure, and all I feel I need to add is that the book itself is very attractive and robust with good paper. I thought it would be more useful to detail the ways in which the book has helped me:-Firstly, it has been an excellent introduction to journalling. It’s something that I’ve been aware of for some time, and had actually decided to do more recently, yet months had passed and I had still not made any progress. Luckily this book came out at a time when I had renewed my interest in the practice. I currently leave it on the desk near my bed so I always pick it up in the morning and before going to sleep, it has been relatively easy to make the daily entries except for on the odd occasion when I was pressed for time.Secondly, and perhaps most obviously it has helped with the practice of stoicism (I'm using it alongside the Daily Stoic book - although the journal can be used standalone). Sometimes the reflection or quote just hits the mark, it’s application becomes obvious as you encounter something during the day, or it helps you to think in a better way about something that has been troubling you.The third benefit is slightly more nebulous but I’ll have a go at explaining it. The daily entries encourage reflection (I should also say that I practice mindfulness meditation) and within these you somehow begin to refine your thoughts.Perhaps you you occasionally feel bad about something, or don’t behave as you’d like to, but you don’t really know what’s going on, and you just kinda forget about it and then it happens again, but theres no real reason. Sometimes you pay attention to it, sometimes you don’t. This could be something that really troubles you, or just something relatively petty, but you know something is not quite right… But once you start paying attention, and start thinking, and start writing, and asking questions, you begin to chip away at whats there, its just a kind of background process, you’re not actively working on it, but you’re asking the right questions... And then it clicks, it could be a few things that come together that explain it, and the answer seems so well articulated that you’re surprised you came up with it. It’s pretty powerful stuff.Anyway I highly recommend this book, its a great way to get into the habit of journalling, with all the benefits of stoic thinking.

This journal is good to get you started on asking yourself tough questions on a daily basis. Every week includes a summary of an aspect of Stoic philosophy from the greats. However, the questions can quickly become dull for someone looking for more depth.Here are my worst examples: -am I sizzle or steak?- are you praying--or *demanding*? (Yeuch)- am I keeping watch?- is change really so bad? Is the status quo really so good? - what if I didn't have an opinion about this?Not terrible; just bland, shallow and uninspired, although I expect the experience is better with the companion book.I began writing on 1st January as suggested, and by May I had begun a parallel journal (based on a plethora of personality inventories, a series on self-reliance and a series with more emotive and open questions) and it's highlighted to me the the failings of the Stoics and also why this philosophy is so popular in the West. There are many similarities to Buddhism and Abrahamic faith, and it is nearly as obsessed with death and inner emptiness as either of these. If you need an example of why the Stoics are not a fountain of human genius, go read an account of how Seneca died.If the stiff-upper-lip and obsessive reliance on rationality are your thing, you'll love this journal. If you want to connect with your authentic self and develop your intellect and imagination, I'd recommend buying a fancy blank book and collecting questions from everywhere you can find them, curating your own journalling experience and even mixing in some creative writing drills.I expect this is obvious to some people but it took me a painful 5 month slog to figure it out. I'm still glad I bought the journal but this philosophy just isn't for me.

This is a brilliant tool for sentence of paragraph journalling, it is divided into weeks, a stoic practice presented on a page at the beginning of the week with a few paragraphs outlining it and three or more supporting quotations from famous stoics (for instance Week IV: A Little Better Every Day, with supporting quotations from Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus), with each day divided into space to write a Morning Reflection and an Evening Reflection and a question as a prompt alongside the date (for instance, January 22, What Bad Habit Did I Curb Today?; January 23rd, Which of my possessions own me?; January 24th, Am I doing deep work?).There is a four or five page introduction which is divided into a general introduction about stoicism and a two and a bit direction on how to use the journal best. There is an excellent bibliography and references, after a fashion, included also at the end of the book, I found this interesting because it goes beyond the "usual suspects", such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus, mentioning Publilius Syrus, who I previously had not heard of prior to reading this reference.This selection of sources both interested and surprised me, prior to its inclusion the main reference was to the Daily Stoic book, which is a good read from the same author and planned as a companion volume, this selection includes a more than one reference for or about individuals who have applied Stoicism in circumstances similar to those of the original stoics, ie conditions of war, immanent death or maiming, low intensity conflicts.This is a nice hardback bound notebook besides, it also provides enough space for making a note, more than some smaller "single line" or "one sentence a day" journals, its not full blank pages though so you have to consider what you plan to write, and it contains pages for each day of the year. Allowing the collecting of a years worth of notes and reflections. It also provides a format, like plenty of these journals do, which you can continue to use once you have filled the book and having filled the book its likely the format will remain memorable and the habit of making reflective notes AM and PM stick after that time.In the past I've kept a small hardback edition of Seneca's Letters of Stoic in order to read a chapter a day and I have kept reflective journals, personally and professionally for a couple of years now, also I've kept journals of responses to prompt questions (either provided in books such as "If" and "If: Questions for the soul" or online generators) in the past, this Journal combines all these activities in a single place. Recommended.

As a fan of stoicism I thought I'd give this journal a go. I was expecting a series thought provoking questions and a journey of self discovery through the year. What I got was a hotchpotch of concepts and questions which seemed to have little point. If you want to follow stoicism get a cheap notebook and a copy of some of the classics by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or Epictetus. You will gain far more by writing your own questions and copying the quotes you find valuable than by using this journal.

Half a year into my Daily Stoic journal and I can honestly say that, along with the book, this has been an amazing tool. Every now and again one of the prompts really makes me sit up and think. Sometimes it makes me realise I am not as good a person as I always thought. And sometimes it’s the kick in the behind I need to try harder. Really recommend this. I’ll be repurchasing next year.