I’ve been reading that there are a lot of positive benefits to journaling. That by journaling you build stronger cognitive and emotional abilities, and better able to assess your life and circumstances.

I don’t personally do it, but starting to think there might be something to it. I suppose in some sense, posting here is somewhat like a journal.

Anyone write often, or have any tips to start?

Nah, I have a penis and like girls

I journal while I work.

























The misc is my journal.

I started journaling recently and it feels good srs. Don't think too hard about it, just start writing about whatever comes to your mind.

i have thousands of journal pages. I write in my journal because I have no human friends that I can really talk at and be 100% genuine. I mean, I could just spit the truth, but the "I'm sorries" that must necessarily follow to preserve any semblance of civility make speaking frankly an unproductive use of time. I'd say the closest thing I have to conversation is the misc, but this place is filled with weakling fairies who have to go through the five stages of grief every time I make a comment.

Yes, it's called my chitposting in the MISC

I don't, but should. I've heard it helps with a multitude of things. Especially if you try to write in full legitimate sentences instead of just shorthand. Not only helps with consistency, progress, and accountability, it also helps on the cognitive and "brain" work side of things.

Nick Lavery journals all the time, keeping track of absolutely everything he does down to the minute. He's a 6'5" Green Beret who's leg was shot up and eventually amputated in Afghanistan in 2013. For 2 years he worked his ass off to become the only above-knee amputee to return to an active duty combat role. While completing the same requirements all other Green Berets needed to complete. In his own words, "Yea I journal. What are you gonna do, call me a bitch?"

i keep an ongoing journal of "Wisdom" and Quotes in a Microsoft Word Document. i'm up to about 24,000 items. i've been doing it for decades.

[QUOTE=xxAchillesxx post_id=1667476763]I don't, but should. I've heard it helps with a multitude of things. Especially if you try to write in full legitimate sentences instead of just shorthand. Not only helps with consistency, progress, and accountability, it also helps on the cognitive and "brain" work side of things.

Nick Lavery journals all the time, keeping track of absolutely everything he does down to the minute. He's a 6'5" Green Beret who's leg was shot up and eventually amputated in Afghanistan in 2013. For 2 years he worked his ass off to become the only above-knee amputee to return to an active duty combat role. While completing the same requirements all other Green Berets needed to complete. In his own words, "Yea I journal. What are you gonna do, call me a bitch?"

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Damn that’s one big ass dude.

I wonder if it makes sense to hand write versus type. Typing will make it easier to search, and safely store. Not sure if I would go back to re-read everything that I would write, but imagine it would be tough to store multiple college rules notebooks.

I took it up after my dad passed away. He never kept a journal, but it was nice finding letters and things he had written while going through all of his stuff when we cleared the house out. I figured that keeping journals would be something that might comfort my boys someday after I'm gone, so that's why I wanted to start.

To be honest though, it still feels a little bit like a chore. I want my journals to be handwritten because it feels more personal, but it would be way easier to type. I'm still trying to get to the point where I'm getting something out of it, like helping to process what I'm thinking about. Right now it's still kind of just "here's what I did today."