Coaching practices for The Pythagorean Evening Review After a Loss
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- Every time I review how I acted today I catch myself building a defense
- When I look back on my day it’s either all the ways I screwed up or a vague "it was fine"
- At night my mind either replays only what I screwed up until I can’t sleep, or it skates past the day entirely
- I reflect every night and have all these insights about what I’d do differently, but nothing ever actually changes
- At the end of the day my failures are vivid and my wins are invisible
Practices that may help
- The Pythagorean Evening Review
The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling. - Seneca’s evening court — judge the day as an honest prosecutor
Review the day as a fair judge would: what was the evidence, what was the verdict, what is the sentence?
The Pythagorean Evening Review - The three-question evening review
Ask three questions before sleep: What did I do wrong? What did I succeed at? What could I have done better?
The Pythagorean Evening Review - The Pythagorean evening examination (Hadot’s version)
Before sleep, review the day in three questions: Where did I go wrong? What did I succeed at? What remains undone?
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises - End every review with a single resolved next action
The review is incomplete until you name one specific thing you will do differently tomorrow.
The Pythagorean Evening Review - Balance the review with a genuine positive inventory
List three specific things you did well today — not three things that went well, but three things you did.
The Pythagorean Evening Review - Review across a week to detect patterns, not just daily incidents
Once a week, read your nightly reviews together and name the pattern you see.
The Pythagorean Evening Review - Begin with gratitude
Start the review by recalling specific gifts and good moments of the day.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - Review the day each night
Before sleep, put the day on trial: what did I do well, what badly, what will I do differently?
Seneca on Time, Made Practical - Close each day with a karma yoga gratitude practice
Review the day’s acts as offerings and receive the results — whatever they were — with gratitude.
Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Selfless Action
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The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling.
- Pythagorean Evening Review
The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling.
- The Pythagorean Evening Review As A Parent
The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling.
- The Pythagorean Evening Review During A Big Change
The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling.
- The Pythagorean Evening Review When Overwhelmed
The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling.
- Evening Review Practice
The Pythagorean evening review is an ancient practice of structured nightly self-examination, reconstructed by Pierre Hadot and others from Pythagorean and Stoic sources. It involves reviewing the day in three questions — where you went wrong, what you succeeded at, what remains — and has been a foundational practice for self-development from antiquity through the Stoics and Montaigne to modern structured journaling.
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