Journal Like a Stoic

Bring Stoicism to your daily life with this guided journal based on the teachings of great Stoic thinkers. Explore why leaders, artists, and athletes have relied on these principles to achieve success for thousands of years.

While Stoicism offers age-old wisdom, it is hardly a relic of the past. Today, people from all corners of the globe look to Stoicism to find solace, curb reactivity, and achieve their greatest ambitions. In Journal Like a Stoic, Stoicism researcher and expert Brittany Polat, PhD, provides 90 days of journaling for the modern Stoic to ground themselves as they deepen their self-exploration, find discipline, cope with grief, or simply seek change (or to endure it). Whether you’re coming to Stoicism for the first time or returning to its guidance, this course will support your path to fulfillment with practical, empathic wisdom that’s endured for millennia. 

• Follow a 90-day guided course to take you from awareness to acceptance and eventually impact.  
  
• Discover Stoic origins with a historical refresher on the philosophy's beginnings, tenets, and thinkers who have changed history.  
  
• Receive advice from the greats, including Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus.  
  
• Reflect on insightful prompts that encourage you to choose virtue above all else and to find peace through rationality. 
  

“Brittany Polat’s Journal Like a Stoic is a wise and compassionate guide for exploring how you can improve your character to improve your life. Brittany has chosen 90 of the best Stoic teachings to inspire daily journaling practice so you can plant the seeds of happiness, tend to a life of inner tranquility, and care for others. Stoicism is over 2,000 years –old, but Polat’s reflections and prompts make the ancient teachings accessible and relevant to us all in these modern times. Polat’s daily prompts will encourage you to persevere along the path of your own personal development journey.”
—Kathryn Koromilas, writer, coach, and host of The Stoic Salon podcast

“Brittany Polat helps us move from Stoic theory into down-to-earth daily practice. Journal Like a Stoic is a valuable road map to a focused mind and an organized day.”
—Sharon Lebell, author of the international bestseller The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
 
“Brittany Polat is one of the clearest, most knowledgeable, and humane writers in the modern Stoic tradition. In Journal Like a Stoic, she makes journaling easy by aligning prompts with 90 quotations from ancient Stoics. After explaining their ideas, she provides specific questions for the reader to contemplate and answer. This hands-on, practical guide is invaluable if you’d like to reflect on how Stoic ideas can enhance your life.”
—David Fideler, PhD, author of Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
 
“A very well-thought-out and helpful guide to Stoic journaling. The course is securely grounded in the fundamental Stoic principles of living in line with virtue and step-by-step ethical development.”
—Christopher Gill, emeritus professor at the University of Exeter and founding member of Modern Stoicism
 
“Brittany Polat is a unique, important voice in the global Stoic community. She draws on her own journey, and after a beautifully clear introduction to Stoicism’s core ethical tenets, the reader is led along a path to greater acceptance and practicing the Stoic virtues on a daily basis. Stoicism isn’t ‘magic beans’ but a way of life for which Polat is a thoughtful and wise guide.”
—Matt Sharpe, associate professor, author of Stoicism, Bullying, and Beyond and coauthor of Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions
 


 
 
 
 
 Brittany Polat, PhD, is a writer and researcher on Stoicism as a way of life. With a doctorate in applied linguistics, she is the co-founder of several nonprofits, including Stoicare, which promotes the Stoic principles of wisdom, well-being, and community. When not with her family, she spends her time writing, talking, and interviewing about Stoicism.