A guided daily Stoic practice
Practice what you can control.
One thought in the morning. One practice for the day. One honest reflection at night.
How a day goes
Most of us save good ideas.
Few of us try one on a Tuesday.
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Morning07:00
A clear thought
A lesson of about five minutes, to listen to or read. Each one is built on a single line from Epictetus, Seneca or Marcus Aurelius, checked against the source, and on where it meets an ordinary day.
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During the day13:00
One practice
Each lesson has its own practice, and it is about your day, not an example in a book: a reply that doesn't arrive, a car that cuts in, a worry about Thursday. You work it out with the mentor, then try it once, for real.
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Evening21:00
An honest reflection
You tell the mentor what actually happened. It remembers this morning's practice and the days before it, so the conversation picks up where you left it. It is not a scorecard.
The practice is done, not read
You bring the situation.
You sort it together.
The first week is about what is up to you. Its first practice: take the thing worrying you most and split it in two. You say what is on your mind, and you and the mentor draw the line.
Your worry, as an example“I have an interview on Thursday and I can't stop thinking about it.”
Up to you
- How I prepare tonight
- Arriving early
- What I say, and how plainly
Not up to you
- Who else applied
- The interviewer's mood
- Their decision
An illustration. In the app the lists are yours: the mentor works from what you tell it.
One lesson, as an example
The story you add
A car cuts in front of you.
Fact
A car moved into your lane.
Story
That idiot did it to me on purpose, and people have no respect any more.
You don't know the driver. You wrote an entire character for a stranger in half a second, and now you're furious at someone you invented.
People are disturbed not by things, but by their judgments about things.
Epictetus, Enchiridion 5
The practice Once today, when you catch yourself thinking “this is terrible”, say only what a camera would have recorded. One plain sentence. Then notice what is left.
Plainly
What it is, and what it isn't
- A practice, not a feed
- One lesson a day, in themed weeks. The first is on what is up to you. There is no endless library to scroll.
- The mentor is an AI
- It says so. It is not a therapist, and it does not pretend to be Marcus Aurelius. It asks what happened and helps you look at it.
- No account
- You don't sign in. Your reflections are kept on your phone and in your own iCloud. Our servers keep nothing about you.
- What it costs
- The first lesson is free. After that it is a subscription through the App Store, which you can cancel there at any time.
Each lesson has its own evening question
“What was the fact, and what was the story?” “What was the worry, and where did the line fall?” “Who was it, and did you give the answer you had chosen?” “Which fear did you choose, and what would you actually do?”
Four of them, from the first week. The mentor asks about the practice you set out to do that morning.