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Self-examination as a technique

How to inspect your own mind without a guru.

• What do you actually think, before you have decided what to think?
  Michel de Montaigne · Essays, III.13 Of Experience · 1580 · Self-examination as a technique
• What would a daily audit of your conduct actually look like?
  Seneca · Letters to Lucilius, especially 1 and 28 · c. 65 CE · Self-examination as a technique
• How much of today's disturbance was about something you control?
  Epictetus · Enchiridion · c. 125 CE · Self-examination as a technique
• What if reading was supposed to change you rather than inform you?
  Pierre Hadot · Philosophy as a Way of Life · 1981; English 1995 · Self-examination as a technique
• Which self-examination techniques did you inherit without choosing?
  Michel Foucault · Technologies of the Self · 1982 lectures · Self-examination as a technique

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