Why You Should Learn to Journal Like the Stoics

Moral self-examination can lead to self-improvement

Donald J. Robertson
Forge
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5 min readApr 19, 2021

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Journaling for self-improvement is nothing new. Daily reflection as moral self-examination goes all the back to ancient Greece and Rome. It was first described in a poem called The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, based on the doctrines of the famous sixth century BCE philosopher. The famous Stoic…

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Donald J. Robertson
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Cognitive psychotherapist, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor. Sign up for my new Substack newsletter: https://donaldrobertson.substack.com/