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Comment author: palladias 11 March 2015 02:55:52PM 11 points [-]

I really like the Jesuit examen (a way to review your day and plan for the future) and I recommend Fr. Timothy Gallagher's book on this practice. Gallagher is great at outlining the practice and giving concrete examples of how Catholics have used this debugging-your-life ritual -- it helped me notice not just active errors I was making but ways I was passively letting opportunities to be kind slip by.

Comment author: Bobertron 13 March 2015 04:16:49PM 1 point [-]

Sounds like it's the same or similar to what some modern practicing stoics do.