How to Journal (Like a Philosopher)

so if you want to start journaling it's actually pretty simple there are basically three steps first just get a journal find one that you like I like these Lloyds terms soft covers lately second get a pin that you like to write with I really like fountain pens but you should just pick whatever works for you

and third the step is to just write make a habit of it try to write every day if you can and if you can't write every day just write when you feel like it it really is that simple but every time I talk about journaling on this channel I get one question over and over what do

you write about so in this video I'm going to give you a guide to journaling I'm going to tell you what to do when the words aren't flowing and along the way I am going to talk about journaling's relationship to self-improvement which is one reason so many of us journal and also the

philosophy behind it all if I'm struggling to write I found that there is a reliable structure that I can follow that lets me write about a Page's worth of content First I write a paragraph about something that happened that day or if I'm journaling in the morning something that happened the day before this is a purely factual account

I'm just writing about some event in my life something that was notable I'm being selective here I'm not writing about everything that happened to me and I am not aiming for this to be a comprehensive account of my entire day so as an example a few days ago I was writing in my journal about something

that happened at work basically this event occurred it the details don't really matter for this video but it was something that I found very stressful but it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part so I was able to get it resolved but it took a little bit of time and there was some