Hello and welcome to Navigate the Day, a podcast that is a year long journey of yours truly. The host of the show Keegan, going through my stoic journey over the next 365 days, give or take, and we are in the month of January, which is clarity.So for anyone who's new, what I'm doing is I'm going through The Daily Stoic which is Ryan Holidays book and I am. Kind of doing the the journal entries as well and I'm kind of just sharing those for my own.
Sound archives, basically. So today's main concept is education is freedom.The Epictetus quote is as follows for today.What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated. Tranquility, fearlessness and freedom. We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that the educated are free so. The journal prompt for today is What am I learning and studying for? So
why? Why am I learning?And so, like I kind of held on to this main concept while journaling today of self knowledge in particular is freedom. And so I kind of wrote down some of my thoughts on. On that journal prompt. So the reason that I'm reading this book and journaling is to learn more about my emotions and their effect on me, or lack thereof.And how to better embrace the highs and lows that life kind of throws at me?And I'm hoping that by
giving myself the freedom to grow.That I can find teachings that will be passed, be able to be passed on to others, and maybe they can learn and grow themselves as well. Mainly those that are I find in my day-to-day life that are close to me and just trying to help them out wherever I can. And trying to be less selfish.And I mean in the past, I haven't always expressed myself in the most
constructive ways.I've let myself feel overexerted and overwhelmed to the point of wanting to escape myself and my inner thoughts. Most days. Not not all days. Simply many more than I'd like to admit.I think that's another reason I have such a focus on self study at this time in my life. Similar to others that came before me, those around me, and those that are
going to come after me.I have made mistakes and I'm definitely going to make more before my life is done, but to me, in my mind, this is the cost of growth.And I'm not the mistakes I've made, however, I'm me. In spite of the setbacks, missteps and miscalculations that I've had, we simply work with the best information available to us at the time, so it's no fault of the individual who doesn't have all the information needed.More Simply put, you don't know what you don't know.
I'm studying these ancient philosophies as presented by Ryan Holiday through his books and the aim of living a better life by learning more about what I don't know about myself.Self- awareness is kind of my main goal here and it's my main goal to get out of this this year long exercise I'm I'm trying to become more aware of myself and become closer to myself so. That's kind of the the breakdown of of what I was thinking this morning.
It's almost noon. I'm gonna be posting this pretty quickly after I'm done recording today, trying to post these daily just so that you guys, me, I can go back and listen to these and recap my entire year. So I'm pretty excited to do that.And I just want to take this time to kind of thank myself for putting in such an effort to improve my cognitive functions and emotional intelligence. Thanks for listening, ma'am. I appreciate it.
And not exclusively for myself, but for everyone who I come into contact with from now on. Like, I want to be a better person so that I can handle my emotions and not let them run rampant and affect those around me in a negative way.My emotions are mine to to carry, you know.So. Thank you for taking the time to listen. If you want to help out, um, you could leave a review. I definitely appreciate that. Other than
that, thank you for listening. And don't forget that the prompt for today for journaling was what am I learning and studying for? So if you want to follow along with me, you can go ahead and journal in either a guided journaling book or a moleskin journal or even a simple composition notebook is great, $0.99 is. Just as good as $50 when it comes to a journal. Doesn't matter the the make of it matters the contents.Thank you for tuning in to navigate the day.